Patent ID: 7907590

Claim:
A method for identifying traffic information in an information terminal, the method comprising: receiving, at the information terminal, traffic data including: first information corresponding to a traffic tendency for a particular road and at least one first identification information identifying that the traffic data relates to the traffic tendency for the particular road, second information corresponding to a travel time for the particular road and at least one second identification information identifying that the traffic data relates to the travel time for the particular road, third information corresponding to a prediction of an average speed of the particular road and at least one third identification information identifying that the traffic data relates to the prediction of the average speed for the particular road, fourth information corresponding to a location associated with the particular road, and fifth information corresponding to a generation time of information reflected in the traffic data, wherein the first information, first identification information, second information, second identification information, third information, and third identification information are received in a first container of the received traffic data; determining traffic tendency information based on the first information if the first identification information indicates that the received traffic data includes information related to a traffic tendency; determining location information based on the fourth information corresponding to the location associated with the particular road; and identifying, at the information terminal, traffic information based on the determined traffic tendency information and the determined location information.