Patent ID: 7617045

Claim:
A system for providing a user with traffic information, the system comprising: a processor; a traffic antenna in communication with the processor, the traffic antenna configured to transmit a traffic message to the processor, the traffic message having a traffic location and a traffic incident; a location antenna in communication with the processor, the location antenna configured to transmit location data to the processor, the location data being latitudinal and longitudinal location data; an output device in communication with the processor; a traffic location table database in communication with the processor, the traffic location table database having latitudinal and longitudinal location codes and a description of the corresponding to the traffic location; an event code database in communication with the processor, the event code database having a description of the traffic event corresponding to the traffic event code; a memory unit in communication with the processor and having processor executable instructions for configuring the processor to determine at least one radius of interest, at least one radius of interest comprising a plurality of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, to receive the traffic message, to convert the traffic location code of the traffic message to a latitudinal and longitudinal traffic location, and to output the traffic message to an output device if the traffic location is located within the at least one radius of interest.