Patent ID: 8818695

Claim:
A method for operating a vehicle telematics services provider's central computer, comprising: receiving data corresponding to one, or more, vehicle performance parameters from one, or more, telematics devices corresponding to one, or more, respective vehicles; processing the data received from the one, or more, telematics devices to determine current traffic conditions within a geographic area defined by a polygon that encompasses geographic coordinates of the one, or more, vehicle's, or vehicles', telematics device, or devices; and reporting the traffic conditions to one, or more, user devices as media content; wherein the one, or more, vehicle's, or vehicles', telematics device, or devices, each transmitted the data corresponding to the vehicle performance parameters after performing a method comprising the steps of: determining values of non-fixed coordinates of a geographic location of the respective telematics device substantially located at the same location as the vehicle corresponding to the telematics device; creating a unique identifier derived from the values of the non-fixed coordinates; and associating the unique identifier with the vehicle performance parameter data before transmitting it with the associated vehicle performance parameter data to the central computer, and wherein the performance parameters may be one or more of a group of parameters that incudes vehicle braking, vehicle forward acceleration, vehicle lateral acceleration, and vehicle speed.