Method of providing dynamic regionally relevant data to a mobile environment

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides an efficient and dynamic method of delivering services to a mobile environment.
More particularly, it provides a dynamic method of delivering regionally relevant information to a plurality of geographically disperse and mobile environments, such as, for example, motor vehicles.
Accordingly, the invention allows passengers in an automobile to immediately access regionally relevant information, such as weather, traffic, points of interest, restaurants, advertisements for local establishments, etc.
, without incurring expensive air-time from connecting through cellular telephony infrastructure.
The invention utilizes a filtering process referred to herein as dynamic geo filter/fencing (DGFF).
This involves a receiver element in a mobile environment, such as a motor vehicle, taking a geocode reading (e.
g.
, latitude and longitude readings obtained from a GPS satellite via a GPS receiver) for identifying the location of the vehicle, then logically drawing a fence around that location reading, for example two miles square.
At a separate location (e.
g.
, a satellite uplink facility) regionally relevant data is tagged with the geocode of the region to which the data is relevant, then broadcast (e.
g.
, over a satellite link) to a wide footprint.
The aforementioned receiver element receives the geocoded regionally relevant information and filters it using the aforementioned logical fence according to the aforementioned DGFF process.
In other words, received information bearing a geocode within the logical fence is kept and processed, while information bearing a geocode falling outside of the logical fence is not kept and processed.
The inventive methodology is dynamic in that the fence automatically moves as the mobile environment moves, thereby automatically changing the nature and content of the information that is allowed to pass through the DGFF filter.
The present invention may be implemented using in a wireless distribution system that securely, reliably and inexpensively distributes digital, packetized and regionally relevant information to individuals at geographically disperse and mobile locations