Patent ID: 8818695
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G08G,H04H

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a vehicle telematics services provider's central computer, comprising: receiving data corresponding to one, or more, vehicle performance parameters from one, or more, telematics devices corresponding to one, or more, respective vehicles; processing the data received from the one, or more, telematics devices to determine current traffic conditions within a geographic area defined by a polygon that encompasses geographic coordinates of the one, or more, vehicle's, or vehicles', telematics device, or devices; and reporting the traffic conditions to one, or more, user devices as media content; wherein the one, or more, vehicle's, or vehicles', telematics device, or devices, each transmitted the data corresponding to the vehicle performance parameters after performing a method comprising the steps of: wherein the performance parameters may be one or more of a group of parameters that incudes vehicle braking, vehicle forward acceleration, vehicle lateral acceleration, and vehicle speed.