Communications: electrical – External condition vehicle-mounted indicator or alarm – Transmitter in another vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-14
2009-12-08
Mullen, Thomas J (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
External condition vehicle-mounted indicator or alarm
Transmitter in another vehicle
C340S435000, C340S905000, C340S995120, C340S995130, C342S357490
Reexamination Certificate
active
07629899
ABSTRACT:
Method for transmitting data from infrastructure to vehicles includes arranging a transmitter apart from the vehicles, providing information relating to operation of at least one vehicle or of an occupant of a vehicle to the transmitter, transmitting the information from the transmitter to the at least one vehicle, and receiving the transmitted information at the at least one vehicle. Transmitters may be arranged on a roadway on which the vehicles travel, at a gas station or other vehicle-accessible commercial or public location such as a mall, at the vehicle operator's home and on a road sign, basically anywhere in range of a traveling vehicle. The information to be transmitted to the vehicle may be prioritized and transmitted via the transmitter based on the prioritization.
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Mullen Thomas J
Roffe Brian
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