Patent ID: 7859428

Claim:
In a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of road signs containing wireless road sign transmitters capable of transmitting signals containing information to mobile computing devices located in motor vehicles, a system for delivering road sign content to the mobile computing devices within motor vehicles, the system comprising: a road sign transmitter for continuously broadcasting signals onto the wireless communication network a message containing specific road sign content information; a computing device within a motor vehicle capable of receiving from a motor vehicle occupant display parameters for displaying information with specifically defined content received from road sign transmitters, said computing device also capable of continuously monitoring the wireless communication network for signals being broadcast over the network, the broadcasted signals coming from road sign transmitters; a receiver within said computing device for capturing a signal transmitted over the wireless communication network, when the signal is in range of the mobile computing device; a processing component within the receiving device for interpreting information contained in a received signal, determining the road sign content information contained in the signal, storing the captured road sign content information transmitting the captured road sign information to a display device based on one or more display parameters previously defined by a vehicle occupant; and a display device for displaying for a predetermined time period contents of a road sign contained in the captured signal and transmitted to said display device from said processing component.