52 results about "Traffic reporting" patented technology

A network monitoring device includes a flow processing element, disposed to receive flow information relating to network flows, and to generate a set of virtual packets, each representing a portion of a network flow. The virtual packets are maintained in a time-sequential order, and read by elements of the network monitoring device to generate information relating to network traffic, such as symptoms affecting the communication network, problems affecting the communication network, and otherwise. The network monitoring device randomly samples virtual packets, with at least one of two effects: (1) flow information from traffic reporting devices that are themselves sampling at differing rates can be equalized, with the effect of standardizing information from all of them; (2) the network monitoring device itself can restrict its attention to a fraction of all virtual packets, with the effect of keeping up with a relatively large number of virtual packets.

An Intranet / Internet / Web-based data management tool that provides a common GUI enabling the requesting, customizing, scheduling and viewing of various types of unpriced call detail data reports pertaining to a customer's telecommunications network traffic. The Intranet / Internet / Web-based reporting system tool comprises a novel Web-based, client-server application that enables customers to access their own relevant data information timely, rapidly and accurately through a client GUI. A traffic view server is provided that enables periodic acquisition of data from the customer's telecommunications network at a user-specified frequency and configured to meet real-time traffic reporting requirements. The system infrastructure provided enables secure initiation, acquisition, and presentation of unpriced call detail and statistical data reports to customers.

A traffic reporting service may allow for the generation of more reliable and accurate traffic reports, maps, and forecasts based on various data types and sources. Data sources include public sector sources, private entities, and end users providing crowd sourced data. Crowd sourced data is collected, verified, and used to generate a traffic report which is displayed to a user via a computing device. A user may use various information presented in the traffic report to make informed decisions when choosing travel routes and a departure time to reach a desired destination.

A traffic reporting service may allow for the generation of more reliable and accurate traffic reports, maps, and forecasts based on various data types and sources. Data sources include public sector sources, private entities, and end users providing crowd sourced data. Crowd sourced data is collected, verified, and used to generate a traffic report which is displayed to a user via a computing device. A user may use various information presented in the traffic report to make informed decisions when choosing travel routes and a departure time to reach a desired destination.

A system and method of automatically communicating traffic information from a traffic probe vehicle to a traffic information and management system when the probe vehicle is operated within an active traffic information reporting region. Geographic information about a traffic reporting region, or plurality of regions, is stored in the probe vehicle as an array of geographic cells so as to reduce the data storage requirements. The geographic cells have associated with them certain cell parameters related to the cell, such as a recording priority, a recording interval and a reporting interval. The recording priority of a cell may be associated with certain roadway types located within that cell. As a probe vehicle travels within an active traffic information reporting region, its location is established within the traffic information reporting region and a corresponding geographic cell.

At least one waveform characteristic of a vehicular sensor waveform is reported in a wireless vehicular sensor network. The vehicular sensor waveform results a vehicle's presence near a wireless vehicular sensor node. The waveform characteristic may be rising edge, falling edge, waveform duration and / or waveform midpoint of vehicular sensor waveform. Report transmission uses at least one wireless physical transport. Transmitting the report may initiate a response across the wireless physical transport, preferably from an access point, an acknowledgement of receiving the report. The transmitted report may be received by an access point in the wireless vehicular sensor network. The wireless vehicular sensor network may create any of a vehicular traffic report, a vehicular parking report, and / or a vehicular speeding report, based upon the received vehicular sensor waveform report.

A method and system are disclosed for providing personalized traffic reports. A personalized traffic report is a relatively short, audio-visual presentation that includes an audio narrative by an announcer describing the traffic conditions along a user's selected route, synchronized with a video presentation that includes maps with animations showing the traffic conditions and a visual representation of the announcer. A traffic data services provider determines traffic conditions that pertain to a user's identified particular route, i.e. from an origin to a destination. Then, the traffic data services provider forms an audio-video file that includes an audio narrative in the voice of an announcer that describes the traffic conditions along the user's route, along with a visual map representation of the user's route, a graphical indication of the traffic conditions along the route, and a visual representation of the announcer. The traffic data services provider transmits the audio-video file of the personalized traffic report to the user, who then plays it back on a computing device.

An Intranet / Internet / Web-based data management tool that provides a common GUI enabling the requesting, customizing, scheduling and viewing of various types of unpriced call detail data reports pertaining to a customer's telecommunications network traffic. The Intranet / Internet / Web-based reporting system tool comprises a novel Web-based, client-server application that enables customers to access their own relevant data information timely, rapidly and accurately through a client GUI. A traffic view server is provided that enables periodic acquisition of data from the customer's telecommunications network at a user-specified frequency and configured to meet real-time traffic reporting requirements. The system infrastructure provided enables secure initiation, acquisition, and presentation of unpriced call detail and statistical data reports to customers.

A system and method of automatically communicating traffic information from a traffic probe vehicle to a traffic information and management system when the probe vehicle is operated within an active traffic information reporting region. Geographic information about a traffic reporting region, or plurality of regions, is stored in the probe vehicle as an array of geographic cells so as to reduce the data storage requirements. The geographic cells have associated with them certain cell parameters related to the cell, such as a recording priority, a recording interval and a reporting interval. The recording priority of a cell may be associated with certain roadway types located within that cell. As a probe vehicle travels within an active traffic information reporting region, its location is established within the traffic information reporting region and a corresponding geographic cell, wherein certain vehicle data are recorded and stored in the vehicle for transmission to the traffic information and management system in accordance with the cell parameters. These cell parameters may be selected so as to reduce the volume of information and the frequency of communication required, thereby minimizing communication costs associated with the implementation of the method.

A method for providing traffic information comprises maintaining a list of vehicles that are subscribers of the traffic information. The method comprises receiving vector and location data from a plurality of vehicles traveling on a first set of roads, analyzing the vector and location data, generating traffic reports based on the vector and location data and transmitting the traffic reports to the vehicles that are subscribers of the traffic information.

At least one waveform characteristic of a vehicular sensor waveform is reported in a wireless vehicular sensor network. The vehicular sensor waveform results a vehicle's presence near a wireless vehicular sensor node. The waveform characteristic may be rising edge, falling edge, waveform duration and / or waveform midpoint of vehicular sensor waveform. Report transmission uses at least one wireless physical transport. Transmitting the report may initiate a response across the wireless physical transport, preferably from an access point, an acknowledgement of receiving the report. The transmitted report may be received by an access point in the wireless vehicular sensor network. The wireless vehicular sensor network may create any of a vehicular traffic report, a vehicular parking report, and / or a vehicular speeding report, based upon the received vehicular sensor waveform report.

A graphical user interface for setting parameters related to ad delivery, including a first window for logging into a web interface; a second window for setting at least one of a basic or advanced configuration policies; a third window for displaying at least one of a case study, a budget report, a traffic report, a data mining report, and an ad denial report.

A system and method are provided for enhancing subscriber privacy while delivering location-based in-vehicle alerts to the subscribers of a mobile traffic reporting system by disassociating subscriber information from location information transmitted by a traffic probe vehicle. In various examples, the in-vehicle alerts include Flash Flood alerts, Hurricane alerts, Amber alerts, as well as non-crisis alerts, such as traffic hotspots, locations of inexpensive gas stations, and various points of interest.

The present invention employs approximate device locations determined from changes in the sensed strength of radio signals at different locations. In one instance of the invention, the approximate device locations are based on inference procedures that are used to process ambient commercial radio signals, to estimate a location or a probability distribution over the locations of a device. In another instance of the invention, approximate device locations derived from learning and inference methods that are applied to rank vector of signal strength vectors are utilized. Moving to such rank orderings leads to methods that bypass consideration of absolute signal strengths in location calculations. The invention utilizes approximations for a device location that is based on a method that does not require a substantial number of available ambient signal strengths while still providing useful location inferences in determining locations. Several location-centric services are supported, including receipt of location-specific information such as traffic reports, emergency information, transmission about device location, and time-sensitive promotions such as discounts offered by businesses for load balancing the provision of services.

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided for dynamically routing traffic routs based on traffic reports. Utilizing current in-car navigation systems, a new implementation of that system can be developed where alternate routes can be plotted around varying traffic events. By receiving radio or Radio Frequency (RF) communications regarding current traffic conditions, the in-car navigation system can be modified to plot alternate routes. Also, the in-car navigation systems could utilize computer memory to develop histories of events so that reoccurring traffic events such as rush hour conditions can be avoided.

The present invention employs approximate device locations determined from changes in the sensed strength of radio signals at different locations. In one instance of the invention, the approximate device locations are based on inference procedures that are used to process ambient commercial radio signals, to estimate a location or a probability distribution over the locations of a device. In another instance of the invention, approximate device locations derived from learning and inference methods that are applied to rank vector of signal strength vectors are utilized. Moving to such rank orderings leads to methods that bypass consideration of absolute signal strengths in location calculations. The invention utilizes approximations for a device location that is based on a method that does not require a substantial number of available ambient signal strengths while still providing useful location inferences in determining locations. Several location-centric services are supported, including receipt of location-specific information such as traffic reports, emergency information, transmission about device location, and time-sensitive promotions such as discounts offered by businesses for load balancing the provision of services.

An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a wireless feeder network used to couple access base stations of an access network with a communications network. The wireless feeder network comprises a plurality of feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and a plurality of feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations. Each feeder terminal has a feeder link with a feeder base station, and the feeder links are established over a wireless resource comprising a plurality of resource blocks. Sounding data obtained from the wireless feeder network is used to compute an initial global schedule to allocate to each feeder link at least one resource block, and the global schedule is distributed whereafter the wireless feeder network operates in accordance with the currently distributed global schedule to pass traffic between the communications network and the access base stations. Using traffic reports received during use, an evolutionary algorithm is applied to modify the global schedule, with the resultant updated global schedule then being distributed for use. This enables the allocation of resource blocks to individual feeder links to be varied over time taking account of traffic within the wireless feeder network, thereby improving spectral efficiency.

A network information management system includes, among other elements, a traffic reporting system, a switch shell, and a scheduling mechanism. The traffic reporting includes a database which holds traffic-related data collected from a network switch. The switch shell facilitates communication between the traffic reporting system and multiple digital telecommunications switch types. More specifically, the switch shell translates between a high layer generic interface protocol which defines a common set of switch interaction functions to unique portions of code uniquely compatible with the various switch types. The high layer generic interface protocol may comprise a set of query and response subsets, including a query and response subset for submitting an inventory request and for receiving in response to the submitted request, inventory information from the switch. The inventory information may include such information as a unique identifier of a network resource, a number of members provided as part of the network resource and information concerning the assignment of the network resource. The scheduling mechanism coordinates switch interactions between the traffic reporting system and the switch shell.

The invention discloses a method and device for virtually scheduling cloud computing. The method comprises the following steps of: configuring a threshold sending interface and a traffic reporting interface both corresponding to a service system on a cloud platform; configuring an upper threshold and a lower threshold of the traffic of the service system; sending the upper threshold and the lower threshold to the service system through the threshold sending interface; monitoring the traffic of the service system and reporting a monitoring result to the cloud platform through the traffic reporting interface; and performing virtual scheduling based on the monitoring result. By monitoring the traffic of the service system and scheduling based on the preset upper and lower thresholds, the method and device for virtually scheduling the cloud computing realize a scheduling way of scheduling based on the traffic, reflect the practical scheduling condition more exactly and have the advantages of saving energy and reducing consumption.

A commuter route learning program learns a telematics subscriber's common travel routes (e.g. work-home, home-school, etc.) and offers traffic reports based on the routes. In one aspect, three modes are used to establish routes and offer traffic reports. These modes include a Learn Mode during which the commuter route learning program learns new commuter trips, a Pattern Recognition Mode during which the commuter route learning program recognizes and categorizes routes from patterns of trips, and an Execution Mode during which the commuter route learning program automatically provides commuter route traffic congestion information to a subscriber.

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with at least one other terminal through a server; a position location module configured to detect a current location of the mobile terminal; a touchscreen; and a controller configured to enter a driving mode and display a navigation screen including a route guide map on the touchscreen, receive an traffic report through the server from the at least one other terminal, said traffic report including a location of an accident on the route guide map, and display a location indicator indicating the location of the accident on the route guide map based on the received traffic. Further, the location indicator is displayed with a display characteristic representing a reliability of the traffic report received from the at least one other terminal.

The invention discloses a real-time traffic reporting method, a media endpoint and a real-time traffic reporting system. The method comprises that: when establishing a multimedia session, the link layer discovery protocol media endpoint discovery (LLDPMED) media endpoint updates the total code rate of each media stream input port used by the session according to the code rate of each media stream input port used by the session, carries the latest total code rate of own initiated media stream input ports into an expanded type length value (TLV) after the establishment of the multimedia session is finished and a media channel is enabled, and transmits the expanded TLV to network access equipment; and the network access equipment receives the expanded TLV, and performs bandwidth control and quality of service (QoS) guarantee processing according to the total code rate of each media stream input port in the expanded TLV. By the real-time traffic reporting method, the media endpoint and the real-time traffic reporting system, the accurate bandwidth control and QoS guarantee processing of the network access equipment is realized.

A method of sending traffic related data to a call center using a telematics unit of a vehicle. The method includes receiving a request at the telematics unit to transmit non-traffic data such as vehicle diagnostic information to the call center. Both the non-traffic data as well as traffic related data is obtained by the telematics unit and embedded into a short message service (SMS) message that is then sent to the call center. The traffic related data can be inserted only if it indicates a traffic problem and can be inserted into an otherwise unused portion of the SMS message. The received traffic related data can then be used by the call center or other remote facility to improve traffic reporting.

Methods and systems use a programmable sign display located in proximity to a traffic light to provide information to motorists upon the motorists directing their attention toward the traffic light. The programmable sign display may receive programming for content to be displayed in various ways, such as through an interface to a telephone network accessible by a cell phone that sends programming information to the sign. The programmable sign may be used to inform motorists of a radio frequency upon which relevant information such as advertising or traffic reports is being broadcast. The programmable sign may be used to provide textual or graphical information, such as an instruction to motorists that relates to avoiding an approaching emergency vehicle. Additionally, management of the sign is provided to coordinate programming and control of the content being displayed. The display of content on the programmable sign display may be coordinated with the states of the traffic light to avoid distracting motorists.

An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a wireless feeder network used to couple access base stations of an access network with a communications network. The wireless feeder network comprises a plurality of feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and a plurality of feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations. Each feeder terminal has a feeder link with a feeder base station, and the feeder links are established over a wireless resource comprising a plurality of resource blocks. Sounding data obtained from the wireless feeder network is used to compute an initial global schedule to allocate to each feeder link at least one resource block, and the global schedule is distributed whereafter the wireless feeder network operates in accordance with the currently distributed global schedule to pass traffic between the communications network and the access base stations. Using traffic reports received during use, an evolutionary algorithm is applied to modify the global schedule, with the resultant updated global schedule then being distributed for use. This enables the allocation of resource blocks to individual feeder links to be varied over time taking account of traffic within the wireless feeder network, thereby improving spectral efficiency.

The invention discloses a report uplink service quantity method, a middle node and channel switch method and a system; wherein, the channel switch method comprises that when the uplink service is established in a reinforced uplink special channel E-DCH, an uplink service quantity information is reported to a wireless network controller by a special measurement type or the uplink service quantity information is reported to the wireless network controller in an extension E-DCH channel data frame type, and the wireless network controller switches the E-DCH channel according to the uplink service quantity information. The invention can achieve the switch and bandwidth adjustment to the E-DCH channel according to the uplink service quantity information when the uplink service of the wireless network controller is established on the E-DCH channel, thus saving cell resource; furthermore, the invention can avoid channel error switch or bandwidth error adjustment caused by unknown service quantity, thus improving the stability of the service which is carried on the E-DCH channel.

A method for providing traffic information comprises maintaining a list of vehicles that are subscribers of the traffic information. The method comprises receiving vector and location data from a plurality of vehicles traveling on a first set of roads, analyzing the vector and location data, generating traffic reports based on the vector and location data and transmitting the traffic reports to the vehicles that are subscribers of the traffic information.

Systems, methods and software are disclosed for a tool for traffic operations engineers and transportation planners to use to determine, show, approximate, or estimate the effects of construction or other impediments will have on segments of roadways.

The application provides a method for distributing data traffic and related equipment, used for dynamically adjusting the size of traffic fragments and reducing traffic loss of a network operator. Themethod in an embodiment of the application comprises the steps that: when PCRF (Policy and Charging Rule Function) equipment detects the last one first traffic fragment, a traffic reporting instruction is sent to PCEF (Policy and Charging Enforcement Function) equipment by the PCRF equipment, wherein the traffic reporting instruction is used for indicating the PCEF equipment to acquire first traffic information of online users; the first traffic information of the online users, which is fed back by the PCEF equipment, is received by the PCRF equipment; at least one second traffic fragment isobtained by the PCRF equipment according to the first traffic information, wherein the size of the second traffic fragment is less than the size of the first traffic fragment; and the second traffic fragment is sent to the PCEF equipment by the PCRF equipment.

The invention discloses a wireless access network traffic reporting method, device and system, a computer readable storage medium. The wireless access network traffic reporting method comprises the steps: a base station acquiring the following traffic information of a data radio bearer: a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit PDCP PDU or a packet data convergence protocol service data unit PDCPSDU flow generated by a packet data convergence protocol PDCP, and a PDCP flow issued to a PDCP PDU or a PDCP SDU controlled by a wireless link; the base station generating a wireless access network traffic report, wherein the wireless access network traffic report comprises at least one of the following: wireless access network traffic of a granularity unit when a repeated part is not included, wireless access network traffic of the granularity unit when the repeated part is included, and wireless access network traffic of the granularity unit when the repeated part is included; and sending the wireless access network traffic report to a core network. The invention provides a traffic report solution which meets the requirements of operators.