Patent ID: 8140249

Claim:
A method, comprising: obtaining information about a plurality of traffic-related events from at least one source; selecting, as a main traffic-related event, a traffic-related event having a highest priority among the plurality of traffic-related events; encoding information about the main traffic-related event as a main traffic-related message; for each remaining traffic-related event in the plurality of traffic-related events, encoding the remaining traffic-related event as a supplementary traffic-related message when one of the following conditions exists: a local reference of the remaining traffic-related event is different from a local reference of the main traffic-related event; or a source of information about the remaining traffic-related event is different from a source of the information about the main traffic-related event; and transmitting each traffic-related message separately to a receiver device having a processing unit adapted to decode the traffic-related messages; wherein each traffic-related message includes traffic-related message contents, and the main traffic-related message includes a reference to each supplementary traffic-related message.