Method and terminal unit for the spatial allocation of information referring to one location

US6324466A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Vieweg · Willich, DE
• Josef Heimann · Düsseldorf, DE
• Werner Schulz · Dallas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 28, 1999
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2001
• Expiry date: May 28, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/096775
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An efficient and trouble-proof location referencing of information transmitted from a information provider to the terminal unit is made possible by a method for spatial allocation of information, referring to a location in a terminal unit, wherein the information is sent from an information provider (6) to the terminal unit together with location coordinate data which is associated with this information and which concerns the geographic coordinates (geographic longitude and latitude) of the location and with supplemental location data the allocation of the information to a location is carried out in the terminal unit: PA1 based on a comparison of the transmitted location coordinate data relating to the information with location coordinate data in a reference file in the terminal unit; PA1 and based on a comparison of the transmitted supplemental location data relating to the information (1, 2) with supplemental location data (4, 5) in the reference file (10) in the terminal unit (8), and by means of a terminal unit.