Patent ID: 8638240

Claim:
A method performed by a system on a host vehicle when the host vehicle is on the ground, the method comprising: receiving information about one or more other vehicles operating on the ground; receiving information about the host vehicle; determining one or more protection zones around each of the other vehicles operating on the ground based on the received information about the one or more other vehicles operating on the ground; determining a first protection zone around the host vehicle based on the received host vehicle information; generating an alert, if any of the protection zones around each of the other vehicles occupies at least a portion of the same geographic area as the first protection zone around the host vehicle; and outputting the alert, wherein the received information about the one or more other vehicles and the host vehicle comprises state and vehicle type information, wherein the state information comprises position, ground speed, and directional information, wherein the directional information comprises at least one of heading or track information, wherein heading is used as directional information if speed is below a threshold value.