公开(公告)号：US07605720B1

公开(公告)日：2009-10-20

申请号：US11416730

申请日：2006-05-03

申请人： John I. Menzies, Jr. ,  Chris McClellan ,  Robert L. Martin ,  Thomas A. Pratt ,  Bradley Shawn Grant ,  Catherine A. Wurst

发明人： John I. Menzies, Jr. ,  Chris McClellan ,  Robert L. Martin ,  Thomas A. Pratt ,  Bradley Shawn Grant ,  Catherine A. Wurst

IPC分类号： G08G1/123

CPC分类号： G08G1/096775 ,  G08G1/0962 ,  G08G1/096716 ,  G08G1/096741 ,  H04N7/165 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/26208 ,  H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/8126

摘要： Systems and methods for selecting, sequencing, and presenting traffic events to viewers. This may involve using a prioritizing scheme that estimates the proximity or relevance of the event to the viewers by associating the event with a geographic zone and the viewer with a localized service area served by a particular distribution points of the television content distribution system. In some cases, for each localized service area, zones are given priority values that are used when prioritizing the relevance of traffic events associated with those zones. For viewers in a given localized service area, a first zone may have a higher priority than a second zone, such that in prioritizing traffic events, events associated with the first zone are given a higher priority than events occurring in the second zone. Different zone priority schemes may be associated with a given localized service area at different times of day, week, or year. For example, a zone near the airport may have a higher priority during weekend time periods than during the week.

摘要翻译： 用于向观众选择，排序和呈现交通事件的系统和方法。 这可以涉及使用优先级方案，其通过将事件与地理区域相关联并且观众与由电视内容分发系统的特定分发点服务的本地化服务区域相关联来向观众估计事件的接近度或相关性。 在某些情况下，对于每个本地化服务区域，给予区域优先级值，该优先级值用于在与这些区域相关联的交通事件的相关性的优先级时使用。 对于给定的本地化服务区域中的观看者，第一区域可以具有比第二区域更高的优先级，使得在优先处理业务事件时，与第一区域相关联的事件被给予比在第二区域中发生的事件更高的优先级。 不同的区域优先级方案可以与在日，周或年的不同时间的给定的本地化服务区域相关联。 例如，在周末时间段内，机场附近的区域可能比本周期间的优先级高。