Dual map system for navigation and wireless communication

Details Dual map system for navigation and wireless communication Dual map system for navigation and wireless communication

2005-03-22

2005-03-22

Nguyen, Simon (Department: 2685)

Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location

Navigation

Determination of travel data based on the start point and...

C455S437000, C455S440000, C455S446000, C701S202000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06871139

ABSTRACT:
A system produces of an empirical map of wireless communication coverage through a process of combining information from individual clients to produce a map which is then shared by all of the clients. The wireless coverage map aids in maintaining a reliable communications link. The empirical map is generated by combining information from a group of mobile wireless users. The group may consist of a fleet of trucks, taxicabs, government service vehicles, or the customers of a wireless service provider. The mobile vehicles must be equipped with a GPS device or be located by other means such as triangulation. While vehicles are moving, the quality of wireless communication, e.g., signal strength or communication continuity, is recorded for each vehicle as a function of positions. The data from all of the vehicles is combined to produce the empirical map. The empirical map may be maintained at a central site and subsets of the map replicated for individual vehicles. The map may then be used to direct mobile users to sites of superior communications reliability, warn mobile users when they are out of the service area or are about to leave the service area, or to regulate data communications automatically to stop and restart communications as a mobile vehicle passes through a gap in coverage.

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