RADIO BROADCASTING TRAFFIC

Brand Owner (click to sort) Address Description
GO PATROL Philadelphia Express Traffic Limited Partnership 210 Lake Drive East Cherry Hill NJ 08002 radio broadcasting of traffic and transit information;
GREATER METRO PATROL SHADOW NETWORK, INC. CITY LINE AVE. AND MONUMENT RD. SUITE 2101, HOLIDAY INN PHILADELPHIA PA 19131 RADIO BROADCASTING OF TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT INFORMATION;
METROSHADOW TRAFFIC SHADOW NETWORK, INC. CITY LINE AVE. AND MONUMENT RD. SUITE 2101, HOLIDAY INN PHILADELPHIA PA 19131 RADIO BROADCASTING OF TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT INFORMATION;TRAFFIC;
SHADOW TRAFFIC CITITRAFFIC CORP. 201 ROUTE 17 NORTH RUTHERFORD NJ 07070 RADIO BROADCASTING OF TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT INFORMATION;TRAFFIC;
SHADOW TRAFFIC Westwood One Broadcasting Services, Inc. 9540 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232 Radio broadcasting of traffic and transit information;Applicant claims exclusive right to use the mark in all areas of the United States except for Eastern Pennsylvania, Central and Southern New Jersey, and Delaware (the Greater Philadelphia Region). Applicant's exclusive rights are possibly subject only to the claimed concurrent use in the Greater Philadelphia Region by Metro Networks Communications, Inc., a Maryland corporation doing business at 2800 Post Oak boulevard, Suite 4000, Houston, Texas 77056, which currently claims to be using the service mark SHADOW TRAFFIC in connection with placing advertisements for others; arranging for television and radio advertising time for others; and broadcasting of traffic and transit information. Metro Networks Communications, Inc. is the owner of application Serial No. 75/482,176 for said mark, filed on May 8, 1998. In its application, Metro Networks Communications, Inc. claims use of said mark in connection with its services since 1976 by applying it to promotional materials for the services, such as magazines, brochures and print advertisements, subject to unspecified rights of unidentified junior users. Whether Metro Networks Communications, Inc. has valid trademark rights with priority back to 1976 is the subject of a pending cancellation proceeding currently on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit..;Placing radio advertisements for others;TRAFFIC;
SHADOWMETRO TRAFFIC SHADOW NETWORK, INC. CITY LINE AVE. AND MONUMENT RD. SUITE 2101, HOLIDAY INN PHILADELPHIA PA 19131 RADIO BROADCASTING OF TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT INFORMATION;TRAFFIC;
 

Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

    
Technical Examples
  1. The present invention is directed specifically to methods for reducing the bandwidth requirements for broadcasting traffic information to a vehicle navigation system. The traffic information broadcast to the system using the bandwidth conserving methods of the present invention generally includes traffic flow information and traffic incident information. In one embodiment, the vehicle navigation system filters traffic information to a certain range to expedite traffic calculation, to save on processing hardware, and to reduce bandwidth needs. Alternately, bandwidth conservation may be achieved by providing weight factors and threshold prioritizing when a broadcast limit is close to being reached or exceeded. In another embodiment, bandwidth reduction is achieved by not broadcasting free-flow traffic information and/or displaying only traffic information that indicates a traffic problem. Another method of the present invention to reduce bandwidth needs is directed to reducing broadcast of static traffic information.