Patent ID: 6985696

Claim:
A device adapted and configured to be disposed on a nonautomotive roaming object, comprising a radio that is compatible with a dedicated short range radio frequency-based roadside information service, wherein the radio comprises at least one of: a transmitter that transmits object information regarding the nonautomotive roaming object compatibly with the dedicated short range radio frequency-based roadside information service; and a receiver that receives information service information compatibly with the dedicated short range radio frequency-based roadside information service wherein the object information includes category information that identifies the nonautomotive roaming object as belonging to a particular predefined category that is one of a group of categories consisting of living objects, non-living objects, pedestrians, bicyclists, able-bodied persons, temporarily disabled persons, permanently disabled persons, adults, children, joggers, and hitchhikers or a group of categories consisting of a subset of the categories heretofore named.