EP1337988B1 - Information system for traffic network and method - Google Patents

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EP1337988B1
EP1337988B1 EP01996844A EP01996844A EP1337988B1 EP 1337988 B1 EP1337988 B1 EP 1337988B1 EP 01996844 A EP01996844 A EP 01996844A EP 01996844 A EP01996844 A EP 01996844A EP 1337988 B1 EP1337988 B1 EP 1337988B1
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  • the invention relates to an information system for a traffic network, which is realized with a plurality of each route-bound vehicles running, and a method for operating such.
  • the advertising companies or institutions are preferred as an advertising medium such vehicles or vehicles that operate in places or areas where they appear economically active in order to address passengers directly as potential customers.
  • static advertising media such as billboards or stickers, as this would require a frequent, time-consuming and costly replacement of the advertising materials.
  • the approach of the customers by the usual advertising media is therefore usually lacking in actuality, which does not exhaust the essential potentials of impact.
  • a mass traffic communication system which allows the transmission of information (especially advertising information) depending on the location of a vehicle serving a public transport network vehicle.
  • the corresponding information is transmitted from a control computer via the public (wired) telephone network to relay stations in the depot or at the stops of the vehicles and transmitted there via transmitters to receivers in the vehicles.
  • GB 2 276 063 A describes an arrangement for displaying locally relevant information within a vehicle, comprising a transmitter arranged at the track for transmitting the corresponding information and a receiver arranged in the vehicle for receiving same as well as a multimedia computer installed in the vehicle comprising, responsive to the received local signal, displaying information associated therewith in the vehicle.
  • the information is pulled from a CD-ROM drive on the computer.
  • the system comprises a broadcasting system which transmits voice advertisements with data messages, a GPS navigation system for determining the current position of a vehicle, and a processor for displaying a location-specific section of the overall information transmitted by the broadcasting station.
  • This system can not work without the GPS locating component and requires a permanent, complex in-vehicle data processing - which requires a correspondingly powerful computer - and is therefore also relatively expensive.
  • European Patent Application EP 1 045 537 A2 discloses a method for presenting information intended for use in a moving vehicle.
  • master information is stored on a computer arranged in the vehicle and presented by means of a demonstration device. Additional information is transmitted to the computer via digital broadcasting. This additional information is evaluated by the computer; then the information presented is changed.
  • the invention has for its object to provide an information system and a corresponding method of the type mentioned, with which fast, easy and inexpensive current and route-specific information - including advertising information - transmitted to the users of a transport network and billing a display of this information can be made possible.
  • the invention includes the essential idea of storing the information intended for the users of the traffic network as route-related information packets in a central information store at an information control center.
  • a route memory in each of which the currently valid associations between the individual routes of the traffic network and the vehicles they operate are stored. In interaction between the two memories, it is thus possible to unambiguously assign to each vehicle used on a route an information packet which includes the information relevant for this route.
  • the invention includes the idea of transmitting the said information packets to the vehicles via a transmission device, connected directly to the information control center, of an overall wireless communication device, where they are received by corresponding receiving devices and forwarded to a display control device.
  • the proposed system thus comes without the involvement of a wired telephone network (landline) and without a plurality of distributed over the route transmitting or relay stations and is thus extremely easy and inexpensive to create.
  • the invention includes the idea of preparing and controlling the display of the information packets in the vehicles to an advantageous for the user to be processed - especially sequential, distributed over the journey time - display of the total information content.
  • the resulting "punctual" performance already significantly upgrades conventional advertising information, but is at one particular application of the proposed solution - namely the information presentation during city tours or generally a city information in a transport of particular value.
  • detection means for detecting the amount or duration of information displays in the respective vehicle in the display control means are provided, the detection result of which in particular can be called up from the information control center.
  • the display control means have means for changing the order of display of the contents of the respective information packet depending on the direction of travel ("outward” or “return") when driving on the route. In that case, only one information package has to be created centrally for each route. Alternatively, a separate information packet (with correspondingly specific order of the same contents in total) can be created for each direction of travel at the information control center.
  • the display control devices in the vehicles preferably have an information packet buffer for the internal storage of at least one information packet - but preferably of several information packets for multiple routes and / or directions - in the vehicle.
  • the information display in this is thus relatively independent of a communication link with the control center, so that it remains fully functional even with surprising assignments of a new route (which occur in everyday operation of a transport network quite well) regardless of the control center.
  • the invention does not pursue the aim of to store the entire information database for the users of the complete transport network in each vehicle, since it is precisely with the centralization of information generation and management that substantial savings in terms of production and operating costs can be achieved.
  • the communication between the control center and the vehicles preferably takes place within the framework of a wireless local area network ("Wireless LAN”), but can also be carried out as part of a public mobile radio network.
  • Wired LAN wireless local area network
  • the transmission of the information packets takes place in particular on the basis of an adapted to the technical conditions of the mobile network used Internet Protocol, so in a GSM network according to the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) standard.
  • control center has a time control stage for controlling the transmission of the information packets to the vehicles at predetermined times or in predetermined time ranges.
  • the information control center is equipped so that the supply of information and the creation of the route-related information packets via an input interface, which connects the control center with an IP network, in particular the Internet, and to a corresponding Standard protocol (especially HTTP) is adapted.
  • IP network in particular the Internet
  • Standard protocol especially HTTP
  • an authentication device for the input interface Authorization check provided in connection with an entry.
  • the authentication check may in particular include the request and verification of a (specifically encrypted) customer number and / or a password.
  • a charging device is provided for billing each input to the information memory (for example, depending on the data volume and / or a predetermined tariff level and / or certain boundary conditions with regard to the display of the information in the vehicles). This allows simple automatic billing of advertising information as soon as it is entered into the system.
  • selection means for selecting one of several available information packets provided. These selection means can address one of these memory areas for the current route of the vehicle when forming the above-mentioned information packet buffer having a plurality of memory areas. Alternatively, they can also be designed for retrieving a concrete information packet directly from the information memory of the Leitzehtrale via the wireless communication connection.
  • the display devices will, in most applications, be designed as optical display devices, such as LCD or plasma display screens or LED arrays, and as a result the information packets will typically comprise primarily text or video information. In many cases, however, the additional use of audio information for performance via speakers in the vehicle makes sense. For special applications (city tours) audio information and its acoustic performance can also form the core of the information packages and their transmission to the users of the means of transport.
  • FIG. 1 shows an illustrative overall illustration of a commercial information system of a bus company in which the advertising content is transmitted on the part of the advertising companies via the Internet to an advertising management device and combined to form route-related information packets ("route packets"). These are transmitted via a server of an information control center (“control center”) via radio in the context of a wireless LAN to display control devices ("display computers”) in the buses that control the display units installed there.
  • the advertising management device provides a frame structure of the information units, and HTML templates or even bitmaps or complex audiovisual presentations are created.
  • the advertising content is integrated into the templates and updated.
  • the information packages are assembled from the finished HTML pages and stored in an information computer of the control center.
  • a corresponding information system 1 is shown in more detail in FIG. Its core is a Leitwinn server 3, which as a first database, an information storage 5 and as a second database, a route memory 7 are assigned.
  • the control center server 3 is connected via an input interface 9 and the Internet 11 to input terminals 13 at advertising partners of the operator of the information system.
  • a homepage of the operator are realized on the Internet and provided appropriately designed input frames for the advertisers in the web portal.
  • the server also provides standard animated animation formats, flash techniques, etc.
  • the advertising customers enter their advertising content into the corresponding templates currently and specify the territorial area of influence or the routes of the transport network in or on which their advertising content is to be conveyed to the passengers.
  • there is a dialogue guide in the web portal of the operator which also serves to determine details of the display of advertising information.
  • the input interface 9 is assigned an authentication check stage 15 and a first central charge unit 17. These serve the authorization check of users of the web portal accessing the central server 3 or its information memory 5 or the execution of a (first) billing operation in connection with the data input into the information memory 5, as already explained above.
  • the advertising information to be assigned to a specific route of the traffic network are arranged according to their precise territorial specification in order to form route-related information packets, which are stored in each case in a memory area 5i of the information memory 5.
  • the route memory 7 are in association with the individual routes of the transport network which stores these currently running vehicles, and the control center server 3 generates access to the information memory 5 and the route memory 7 each have a real-time assignment of the current route-related information packets to the individual vehicles of the fleet of the operator.
  • the information packets are sent via a radio transmission stage 21 connected to the control center server 3 to the vehicles of the vehicle fleet.
  • These each have radio receiving stages 23 which are connected to a display controller 25 for sequentially controlling the display of the received information packets on display screens 27 and (optionally) via loudspeakers 28 in the vehicle.
  • a GPS receiver 29 Connected to a control input of the display controller 25 is a GPS receiver 29 which can control the precise timings of the display of the individual information contents of the route-related information packet depending on the actual location of the vehicle.
  • the GPS receiver 29 By the GPS receiver 29, the selection of one of a plurality of information packets stored in an information packet buffer 31 is also carried out when the vehicle starts to travel at its starting point. This is then loaded into the display controller 25 and displayed sequentially. It should be noted that the provision of an information packet buffer with several memory areas for a plurality of information packets is optional, ie an implementation of the system with storage of only a single route-related information packet in the vehicle may be useful.
  • a second decentralized charging unit 33 connected to the display controller 25 is a second decentralized charging unit 33, with which a second charging component is realized depending on the amount and the type of presentation of the information actually displayed.
  • the fee components determined by the two charging units 17, 33 are forwarded to a charging computer 35 of the control center, which determines and issues a fee amount for the use of the system to be invoiced to the advertising customer at certain intervals (eg monthly).

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Information system for a traffic network, whereby route related information packets are centrally stored and wirelessly transmitted to the vehicle for display corresponding to progress on the route.

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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Informationssystem für ein Verkehrsnetz, welches mit einer Mehrzahl von jeweils routengebunden verkehrenden Fahrzeugen realisiert wird, sowie ein Verfahren zum Betrieb eines solchen.The invention relates to an information system for a traffic network, which is realized with a plurality of each route-bound vehicles running, and a method for operating such.

Die Vermittlung von Informationen an die Fahrgäste in den Fahrzeugen von Verkehrsnetzen ist so alt wie diese Verkehrsnetze selbst. Neben der reinen Fahrgastinformation, z. B. bezüglich der Endstation, der nächsten Haltestelle, der Uhrzeit, der verstrichenen oder verbliebenen Fahrzeit o. ä., hat auch die Vermittlung von nicht mit der Fahrt selbst verbundenen Zusatzinformationen eine lange Tradition. So stellen Werbetafeln in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln seit langem eine zusätzliche Einnahmequelle der Betreiber dar.The communication of information to the passengers in the vehicles of transport networks is as old as these transport networks themselves. In addition to the pure passenger information, for. B. with respect to the terminus, the next stop, the time, the elapsed or remaining travel time o. Ä., Also has the mediation of not associated with the trip itself additional information has a long tradition. For example, billboards in public transport have long been an additional source of income for operators.

Dabei versteht es sich, daß die werbenden Firmen oder Einrichtungen sich als Werbeträger bevorzugt solche Verkehrsmittel bzw. Fahrzeuge aussuchen, die in Orten oder Gegenden verkehren, in denen sie wirtschaftlich aktiv in Erscheinung treten, um Fahrgaste unmittelbar als mögliche Kunden anzusprechen. Jedoch ist über statische Werbeträger wie Werbetafeln oder Aufkleber die Aufmerksamkeit der potentiellen Kunden nur schwer auf aktuelle Leistungen bzw. Angebote der werbenden Firma zu lenken, da dies eine häufige, arbeitszeit- und kostenaufwendige Auswechslung der Werbematerialien erfordern würde. Die Ansprache der Kunden durch die üblichen Werbemittel entbehrt daher in der Regel der Aktualität, womit wesentliche Wirkungspotentiale nicht ausgeschöpft werden.It is understood that the advertising companies or institutions are preferred as an advertising medium such vehicles or vehicles that operate in places or areas where they appear economically active in order to address passengers directly as potential customers. However, it is difficult to draw the attention of potential customers to current services or offers of the advertising company via static advertising media such as billboards or stickers, as this would require a frequent, time-consuming and costly replacement of the advertising materials. The approach of the customers by the usual advertising media is therefore usually lacking in actuality, which does not exhaust the essential potentials of impact.

Ein ähnliches Problem haben im übrigen auch die Verkehrsbetriebe selbst, die aktuelle Informationen über die Streckenführung bzw. das Streckennetz oder bestimmte Probleme oder Abweichungen vom regulären Betrieb im wesentlichen nur über aufwendige Informationskampagnen an den Haltestellen oder - sofern das nicht möglich ist - durch das die Fahrzeuge fahrende oder begleitende Personal geben lassen können.Incidentally, the transport operators themselves, the current information about the route or the route network or certain problems or a similar problem Deviations from regular operation essentially only through elaborate information campaigns at the stops or - if that is not possible - by the vehicles driving or accompanying personnel can give.

Aus der WO 91/14247 ist ein Massenverkehrs-Kommunikationssystem bekannt, welches die Übermittlung von Informationen (speziell auch Werbeinformationen) in Abhängigkeit vom Standort eines ein öffentliches Vekehrsnetz bedienenden Fahrzeuges erlaubt. Hierzu werden von einem Steuerrechner aus über das öffentliche (leitungsgebundene) Telefonnetz die entsprechenden Informationen an Relaisstationen im Depot bzw. an den Haltestellen der Fahrzeuge übermittelt und über dort installierte Sender an Empfänger in den Fahrzeugen übermittelt.From WO 91/14247 a mass traffic communication system is known, which allows the transmission of information (especially advertising information) depending on the location of a vehicle serving a public transport network vehicle. For this purpose, the corresponding information is transmitted from a control computer via the public (wired) telephone network to relay stations in the depot or at the stops of the vehicles and transmitted there via transmitters to receivers in the vehicles.

Dieses System ist aufwendig in der Erstellung, da an den zur Informationsübertragung an die Fahrzeuge ausgerüsteten Stellen Festnetzanschlüsse und entsprechende Schnittstellen (Modems) vorgesehen sein müssen und die Informationsübertragung ist insgesamt organisatorisch aufwendig und relativ störanfällig.This system is expensive to create, since at the equipped for transmitting information to vehicles bodies fixed connections and appropriate interfaces (modems) must be provided and the information transfer is overall organizationally complex and relatively susceptible to interference.

In der GB 2 276 063 A wird eine Anordnung zur Anzeige von lokal relevanter Information innerhalb eines Fahrzeuges beschrieben, die einen an der Strecke angeordneten Sender zum Aussenden der entsprechenden Information und einen im Fahrzeug angeordneten Empfänger zu deren Empfang sowie einen im Fahrzeug installierten Multimedia-Rechner umfaßt, der im Ansprechen auf das empfangene lokale Signal eine diesem zugeordnete Information im Fahrzeug zur Anzeige bringt. Die Information wird aus einem CD-ROM-Laufwerk des Computers gezogen. Dieses System ist sowohl in der Installation als auch in der Datenpflege höchst aufwendig.GB 2 276 063 A describes an arrangement for displaying locally relevant information within a vehicle, comprising a transmitter arranged at the track for transmitting the corresponding information and a receiver arranged in the vehicle for receiving same as well as a multimedia computer installed in the vehicle comprising, responsive to the received local signal, displaying information associated therewith in the vehicle. The information is pulled from a CD-ROM drive on the computer. This system is extremely expensive both in the installation and in the data maintenance.

Aus der EP 0 772 856 B1 sind ein Verfahren und eine Anordnung zur Werbung mit Fahrzeugortungsreferenz bekannt. Das System umfaßt eine Rundfunksendeanlage, über die Sprachwerbung mit Datennachrichten ausgesandt wird, ein GPS-Navigationssystem, über das die aktuelle Position eines Fahrzeugs ermittelt wird, und einen Prozessor, der einen standortbezogenen Ausschnitt aus der durch die Rundfunkstation übermittelten Gesamtinformation zur Anzeige bringt. Dieses System kann nicht ohne die GPS-Ortungskomponente arbeiten und erfordert eine permanente aufwendige fahrzeuginterne Datenverarbeitung - die einen entsprechend leistungsfähigen Computer voraussetzt - und ist daher ebenfalls relativ kostenaufwendig.From EP 0 772 856 B1 a method and an arrangement for advertising with vehicle location reference are known. The system comprises a broadcasting system which transmits voice advertisements with data messages, a GPS navigation system for determining the current position of a vehicle, and a processor for displaying a location-specific section of the overall information transmitted by the broadcasting station. This system can not work without the GPS locating component and requires a permanent, complex in-vehicle data processing - which requires a correspondingly powerful computer - and is therefore also relatively expensive.

Aus der DE 295 16 556 U1 ist eine Multimedia-Präsentationsanlage für öffentliche Verkehrsmittel bekannt, die eine Mehrzahl von stationären Sender-/Empfänger-Einheiten aufweist, über die mobile Sender-/Empfänger-Einheiten in den Fahrzeugen des Verkehrsnetzes mit Informationen versorgt werden. Dieses System hat die gleichen Nachteile wie dasjenige gemäß der oben erwähnten WO 91/14247.From DE 295 16 556 U1 a multimedia presentation system for public transport is known, which has a plurality of stationary transmitter / receiver units, are supplied via the mobile transmitter / receiver units in the vehicles of the transport network with information. This system has the same disadvantages as that according to the above mentioned WO 91/14247.

Aus der europäischen Offenlegungsschrift EP 1 045 537 A2 ist ein Verfahren zum Vorführen von Informationen bekannt, welches zur Anwendung in einem sich bewegenden Fahrzeug vorgesehen ist. Bei diesem Verfahren werden Stamminformationen auf einem im Fahrzeug angeordneten Computer gespeichert und mittels einer Vorführeinrichtung vorgeführt. Über digitalen Rundfunk werden Zusatzinformationen auf den Computer übertragen. Diese Zusatzinformationen werden von dem Computer ausgewertet; daraufhin werden die vorgeführten Informationen verändert.European Patent Application EP 1 045 537 A2 discloses a method for presenting information intended for use in a moving vehicle. In this method, master information is stored on a computer arranged in the vehicle and presented by means of a demonstration device. Additional information is transmitted to the computer via digital broadcasting. This additional information is evaluated by the computer; then the information presented is changed.

Der Erfindung liegt die Aufgabe zugrunde, ein Informationssystem sowie ein entsprechendes Verfahren der genannten Art anzugeben, mit denen schnell, leicht und kostengünstig aktuelle und routenspezifische Informationen - darunter Werbeinformationen - an die Benutzer eines Verkehrsnetzes übermittelt und eine Vergebührung einer Anzeige dieser Informationen ermöglicht werden können.The invention has for its object to provide an information system and a corresponding method of the type mentioned, with which fast, easy and inexpensive current and route-specific information - including advertising information - transmitted to the users of a transport network and billing a display of this information can be made possible.

Diese Aufgabe wird hinsichtlich ihres Vorrichtungsaspektes durch ein Informationssystem mit den Merkmalen des Anspruchs 1 und hinsichtlich ihres Verfahrensaspektes durch ein Verfahren mit den Merkmalen des Anspruchs 12 gelöst.This object is achieved in terms of their device aspect by an information system having the features of claim 1 and in terms of their method aspect by a method having the features of claim 12.

Die Erfindung schließt den wesentlichen Gedanken ein, die für die Benutzer des Verkehrsnetzes bestimmten Informationen als routenbezogene Informationspakete in einem zentralen Informationsspeicher bei einer Informations-Leitzentrale abzulegen. Bei dieser existiert außerdem ein Routenspeicher, in dem jeweils die aktuell gültigen Zuordnungen zwischen den einzelnen Routen des Verkehrsnetzes und den sie bedienenden Fahrzeugen abgelegt sind. Im Zusammenwirken beider Speicher läßt sich somit jedem auf einer Route eingesetzten Fahrzeug eindeutig ein Informationspaket zuordnen, welches die für diese Route relevanten Informationen umfaßt.The invention includes the essential idea of storing the information intended for the users of the traffic network as route-related information packets in a central information store at an information control center. In this case, there is also a route memory, in each of which the currently valid associations between the individual routes of the traffic network and the vehicles they operate are stored. In interaction between the two memories, it is thus possible to unambiguously assign to each vehicle used on a route an information packet which includes the information relevant for this route.

Weiterhin schließt die Erfindung den Gedanken ein, die besagten Informationspakete über eine direkt mit der Informations-Leitzentrale verbundene Sendeeinrichtung einer insgesamt drahtlosen Kommunikationsanordnung an die Fahrzeuge auszusenden, wo sie durch entsprechende Empfangseinrichtungen empfangen und einer Anzeigesteuereinrichtung zugeleitet werden. Das vorgeschlagene System kommt also sowohl ohne Einbeziehung eines leitungsgebundenen Telefonnetzes (Festnetzes) als auch ohne eine Mehrzahl von über die Route verteilten Sende- bzw. Relaisstationen aus und ist somit äußerst einfach und kostengünstig zu erstellen.Furthermore, the invention includes the idea of transmitting the said information packets to the vehicles via a transmission device, connected directly to the information control center, of an overall wireless communication device, where they are received by corresponding receiving devices and forwarded to a display control device. The proposed system thus comes without the involvement of a wired telephone network (landline) and without a plurality of distributed over the route transmitting or relay stations and is thus extremely easy and inexpensive to create.

Schließlich gehört zur Erfindung der Gedanke einer Aufbereitung und Steuerung der Anzeige der Informationspakete in den Fahrzeugen zu einer für die Benutzer vorteilhaft zu verarbeitenden - insbesondere sequentiellen, über die Fahrzeit verteilten - Anzeige des Gesamt-Informationsgehaltes. Die dadurch mögliche "punktgenaue" Darbietung wertet bereits herkömmliche Werbeinformationen deutlich auf, ist aber bei einem besonderen Anwendungsgebiet der vorgeschlagenen Lösung - nämlich der Informationsdarbietung bei Stadtrundfahrten bzw. allgemein einer Stadtinformation in einem Verkehrsmittel von besonderem Wert.Finally, the invention includes the idea of preparing and controlling the display of the information packets in the vehicles to an advantageous for the user to be processed - especially sequential, distributed over the journey time - display of the total information content. The resulting "punctual" performance already significantly upgrades conventional advertising information, but is at one particular application of the proposed solution - namely the information presentation during city tours or generally a city information in a transport of particular value.

Erfindungsgemäß sind Erfassungseinrichtungen zur Erfassung der Menge bzw. Dauer von Informationsanzeigen in dem jeweiligen Fahrzeug bei den Anzeigesteuereinrichtungen vorgesehen, wobei deren Erfassungsergebnis insbesondere von der Informations-Leitzentrale aus abrufbar ist. Hiermit wird eine Vergebührung von Werbeanzeigen in Abhängigkeit von der tatsächlichen Dauer bzw. Quantität (und wahlweise von Randbedingungen der Anzeige, wie etwa Größe, Farbigkeit, Spezialeffekte etc.) realisiert.According to the invention detection means for detecting the amount or duration of information displays in the respective vehicle in the display control means are provided, the detection result of which in particular can be called up from the information control center. This implies billing of advertisements depending on the actual duration or quantity (and optionally on constraints of the advertisement, such as size, color, special effects, etc.).

Bei der Erfindung ist es zweckmäßig, wenn die Anzeigesteuereinrichtungen Mittel zur Veränderung der Reihenfolge der Anzeige der Inhalte des jeweiligen Informationspakets in Abhängigkeit von der Fahrtrichtung ("Hinfahrt" oder "Rückfahrt") beim Befahren der Fahrtroute haben. Dann ist für jede Fahrtroute jeweils nur ein Informationspaket zentral zu erstellen. Alternativ kann für jede Fahrtrichtung bei der Informations-Leitzentrale ein gesondertes Informationspaket (mit entsprechend spezifischer Reihenfolge von insgesamt gleichen Inhalten) erstellt werden.In the invention, it is useful if the display control means have means for changing the order of display of the contents of the respective information packet depending on the direction of travel ("outward" or "return") when driving on the route. In that case, only one information package has to be created centrally for each route. Alternatively, a separate information packet (with correspondingly specific order of the same contents in total) can be created for each direction of travel at the information control center.

Die Anzeigesteuereinrichtungen in den Fahrzeugen weisen bevorzugt einen Informationspaket-Zwischenspeicher zur internen Speicherung mindestens eines Informationspaketes - bevorzugt aber von mehreren Informationspaketen für mehrere Routen und/oder Fahrtrichtungen - im Fahrzeug auf. Die Informationsanzeige in diesem wird damit relativ unabhängig von einer Kommunikationsverbindung mit der Leitzentrale, so daß sie auch bei überraschenden Zuweisungen einer neuen Fahrtroute (die im Alltagsbetrieb eines Verkehrsnetzes durchaus vorkommen) unabhängig von der Leitzentrale voll funktionsfähig bleibt. Mit der Erfindung wird allerdings nicht das Ziel verfolgt, in jedem Fahrzeug den gesamten Informationsdatenbestand für die Benutzer des vollständigen Verkehrsnetzes zu speichern, da gerade mit der Zentralisierung der Informationserstellung und -verwaltung wesentliche Gestehungs- und Betriebskosteneinsparungen erzielbar sind.The display control devices in the vehicles preferably have an information packet buffer for the internal storage of at least one information packet - but preferably of several information packets for multiple routes and / or directions - in the vehicle. The information display in this is thus relatively independent of a communication link with the control center, so that it remains fully functional even with surprising assignments of a new route (which occur in everyday operation of a transport network quite well) regardless of the control center. However, the invention does not pursue the aim of to store the entire information database for the users of the complete transport network in each vehicle, since it is precisely with the centralization of information generation and management that substantial savings in terms of production and operating costs can be achieved.

Die Kommunikation zwischen der Leitzentrale und den Fahrzeugen läuft bevorzugt im Rahmen eines drahtlosen lokalen Netzes ("Wireless-LAN") ab, kann aber auch im Rahmen eines öffentlichen Mobilfunknetzes abgewickelt werden. Im letzteren Falle erfolgt die Übertragung der Informationspakete insbesondere auf der Basis eines an die technischen Gegebenheiten des genutzten Mobilfunknetzes angepaßten Internetprotokolls, also bei einem GSM-Netz nach dem WAP(Wireless Application Protocol)-Standard.The communication between the control center and the vehicles preferably takes place within the framework of a wireless local area network ("Wireless LAN"), but can also be carried out as part of a public mobile radio network. In the latter case, the transmission of the information packets takes place in particular on the basis of an adapted to the technical conditions of the mobile network used Internet Protocol, so in a GSM network according to the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) standard.

Insbesondere in Verbindung mit der letzteren Variante ist eine Ausführung von Vorteil, bei der die Leitzentrale eine Zeitsteuerstufe zur Steuerung der Übertragung der Informationspakete an die Fahrzeuge zu vorbestimmten Zeitpunkten bzw. in vorbestimmten Zeitbereichen aufweist. Hierdurch sind Kosteneinsparungen aufgrund der Nutzung günstiger Tarife erzielbar.Particularly in connection with the latter variant, an embodiment is advantageous in which the control center has a time control stage for controlling the transmission of the information packets to the vehicles at predetermined times or in predetermined time ranges. As a result, cost savings due to the use of low fares can be achieved.

In einer bevorzugten Ausführung der Erfindung ist die Informations-Leitzentrale so ausgerüstet, daß die Einspeisung von Informationen und die Erstellung der routenbezogenen Informationspakete über eine Eingabe-Schnittstelle erfolgt, welche die Zentrale mit einem IP-Netz, insbesondere dem Internet, verbindet und an ein entsprechendes Standardprotokoll (speziell HTTP) angepaßt ist. Auf diese Weise ist eine sehr einfache externe Einspeisung von Informationen, beispielsweise durch Werbekunden des Betreibers des Verkehrsnetzes, mit Standard-IT-Ausrüstung möglich.In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the information control center is equipped so that the supply of information and the creation of the route-related information packets via an input interface, which connects the control center with an IP network, in particular the Internet, and to a corresponding Standard protocol (especially HTTP) is adapted. In this way, a very simple external feed of information, for example by advertisers of the operator of the transport network, with standard IT equipment possible.

Zur Sicherung vor unbefugtem Zugriff ist bei der Eingabe-Schnittstelle bevorzugt eine Authentisierungseinrichtung zur Berechtigungsprüfung im Zusammenhang mit einer Eingabe vorgesehen. Die Authentisierungsprüfung kann insbesondere die Anforderung und Prüfung einer (speziell verschlüsselten) Kundennummer und/oder eines Paßwortes umfassen. Weiter bevorzugt ist eine Vergebührungseinrichtung zur Vergebührung jeder Eingabe in den Informationsspeicher (beispielsweise in Abhängigkeit vom Datenumfang und/oder einer vorbestimmten Tarifstufe und/oder bestimmten Randbedingungen hinsichtlich der Anzeige der Informationen in den Fahrzeugen) vorgesehen. Hiermit wird eine einfache automatische Vergebührung von Werbeinformationen unmittelbar bei Eingabe in das System möglich.To protect against unauthorized access is preferably an authentication device for the input interface Authorization check provided in connection with an entry. The authentication check may in particular include the request and verification of a (specifically encrypted) customer number and / or a password. Further preferably, a charging device is provided for billing each input to the information memory (for example, depending on the data volume and / or a predetermined tariff level and / or certain boundary conditions with regard to the display of the information in the vehicles). This allows simple automatic billing of advertising information as soon as it is entered into the system.

An den Anzeigesteuereinrichtungen sind zweckmäßigerweise manuelle oder - bevorzugt - automatische, insbesondere mit einem Signalausgang eines GPS-Empfängers verbundene, Auswahlmittel zur Auswahl eines von mehreren verfügbaren Informationspaketen vorgesehen. Diese Auswahlmittel können bei Ausbildung des oben erwähnten Informationspaket-Zwischenspeichers mit mehreren Speicherbereichen einen von diesen Speicherbereichen für die aktuelle Route des Fahrzeugs adressieren. Alternativ können sie auch zum Abruf eines konkreten Informationspaketes direkt aus dem Informationsspeicher der Leitzehtrale über die drahtlose Kommunikationsverbindung ausgebildet sein.On the display control devices are advantageously manual or - preferably - automatic, in particular connected to a signal output of a GPS receiver, selection means for selecting one of several available information packets provided. These selection means can address one of these memory areas for the current route of the vehicle when forming the above-mentioned information packet buffer having a plurality of memory areas. Alternatively, they can also be designed for retrieving a concrete information packet directly from the information memory of the Leitzehtrale via the wireless communication connection.

Die Anzeigeeinrichtungen werden in den meisten Anwendungsfällen als optische Anzeigeeinrichtungen, etwa LCD- oder Plasma-Anzeigeschirme oder LED-Arrays, ausgebildet sein, und die Informationspakete umfassen demzufolge in der Regel vorrangig Text- bzw. Videoinformationen. In vielen Fällen ist aber der zusätzliche Einsatz von Audioinformationen zur Darbietung über Lautsprecher im Fahrzeug sinnvoll. Für Spezialanwendungen (Stadtrundfahrten) können Audioinformationen und deren akustische Darbietung auch den Kern der Informationspakete und von deren Übermittlung an die Benutzer des Verkehrsmittels bilden.The display devices will, in most applications, be designed as optical display devices, such as LCD or plasma display screens or LED arrays, and as a result the information packets will typically comprise primarily text or video information. In many cases, however, the additional use of audio information for performance via speakers in the vehicle makes sense. For special applications (city tours) audio information and its acoustic performance can also form the core of the information packages and their transmission to the users of the means of transport.

Zu den oben genannten Systemaspekten korrespondieren Verfahrensaspekte des Betriebes eines Verkehrsnetz-Informationssystems, die daher hier nicht im einzelnen aufgeführt werden. Es sei hier lediglich darauf hingewiesen, daß das vorgeschlagene System und Verfahren die tagesaktuelle Information der Nutzer des Verkehrssystems bzw. Plazierung von Werbeanzeigen in Korrelation zur konkreten Route ermöglicht. Dem Betreiber (beispielsweise Bus- oder Bahnunternehmen) wird hierdurch eine nicht unerhebliche Refinanzierung der Kapitalkosten über Werbeeinnahmen aus einem wegen seiner Aktualität und punktgenauen Kundenansprache höchst attraktiven Werbesystem ermöglicht.For the above system aspects correspond procedural aspects of the operation of a traffic network information system, which are therefore not listed here in detail. It should be noted here only that the proposed system and method allows the daily updated information of the users of the transport system or placement of advertisements in correlation to the specific route. The operator (for example, bus or rail companies) is thereby a considerable refinancing of the cost of capital over Advertising revenues from a because of its timeliness and pinpoint customer approach highly attractive advertising system allows.

Vorteile und Zweckmäßigkeiten der Erfindung ergeben sich im übrigen aus den Unteransprüchen sowie der nachfolgenden Beschreibung eines bevorzugten Ausführungsbeispiels anhand der Figuren. Von diesen zeigen:

  • Fig. 1 eine schematische Darstellung zur Illustrierung eines zur Anzeige von Werbeinformationen ausgebildeten Informationssystems gemäß einer Ausführungsform der Erfindung und
  • Fig. 2 eine schematische Darstellung des Aufbaus eines derartigen Informationssystems in form eines Funktions-Blockschaltbildes.
The advantages and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the dependent claims and the following description of a preferred embodiment with reference to FIGS. From these show:
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic illustration illustrating a formed for displaying advertising information information system according to an embodiment of the invention and
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of the structure of such an information system in the form of a functional block diagram.

Fig. 1 zeigt in einer illustrativen Gesamtdarstellung ein Werbe-Informationssystem eines Busunternehmens, bei dem die Werbeinhalte seitens der werbenden Unternehmen über das Internet an eine Werbungs-Managementeinrichtung übermittelt und zu routenbezogenen Informationspaketen ("Routen-Paketen") zusammengestellt werden. Diese werden über einen Server einer Informations-Leitzentrale ("Leitstand") per Funk im Rahmen eines Wireless-LAN an Anzeigesteuereinrichtungen ("displayrechner") in den Bussen übertragen, die dort installierte Anzeigeeinheiten steuern. Durch die Werbungs-Managementeinrichtung wird eine Frame-Struktur der Informationseinheiten bereitgestellt, und es werden HTML-Templates oder auch Bitmaps bzw. komplexe audiovisuelle Darbietungen erstellt. Seitens des werbenden Unternehmens werden jeweils die Werbeinhalte in die Templates integriert und aktualisiert. Aus den fertigen HTML-Seiten werden die Informationspakete zusammengestellt und in einem Informationsrechner des Leitstandes gespeichert.1 shows an illustrative overall illustration of a commercial information system of a bus company in which the advertising content is transmitted on the part of the advertising companies via the Internet to an advertising management device and combined to form route-related information packets ("route packets"). These are transmitted via a server of an information control center ("control center") via radio in the context of a wireless LAN to display control devices ("display computers") in the buses that control the display units installed there. The advertising management device provides a frame structure of the information units, and HTML templates or even bitmaps or complex audiovisual presentations are created. On the part of the advertising company, the advertising content is integrated into the templates and updated. The information packages are assembled from the finished HTML pages and stored in an information computer of the control center.

Die Konfiguration eines entsprechenden Informationssystems 1 ist in Fig. 2 detaillierter dargestellt. Dessen Kernstück ist ein Leitzentralen-Server 3, dem als eine erste Datenbasis ein Informationsspeicher 5 und als zweite Datenbasis ein Routenspeicher 7 zugeordnet sind.The configuration of a corresponding information system 1 is shown in more detail in FIG. Its core is a Leitzentralen server 3, which as a first database, an information storage 5 and as a second database, a route memory 7 are assigned.

Der Leitzentralen-Server 3 ist über eine Eingabe-Schnittstelle 9 und das Internet 11 mit Eingabeterminals 13 bei Werbepartnern des Betreibers des Informationssystems verbunden. Durch den Leitzentralen-Server 3 werden eine Homepage des Betreibers im Internet realisiert und geeignet gestaltete Eingabeframes für die Werbekunden im Web-Portal bereitgestellt. Der Server stellt auch Standardformate für bewegte Animationen, Flash-Techniken etc. bereit. Die Werbekunden geben ihre Werbeinhalte in die entsprechenden Templates aktuell ein und spezifizieren den territorialen Wirkungsbereich bzw. die Routen des Verkehrsnetzes, in bzw. auf denen ihre Werbeinhalte den Fahrgästen vermittelt werden sollen. Hierzu gibt es bei dem Web-Portal des Betreibers eine Dialogführung, die im übrigen auch zu Festlegungen von Details der Anzeige der Werbeinformation dient.The control center server 3 is connected via an input interface 9 and the Internet 11 to input terminals 13 at advertising partners of the operator of the information system. By the Leitzentralen server 3, a homepage of the operator are realized on the Internet and provided appropriately designed input frames for the advertisers in the web portal. The server also provides standard animated animation formats, flash techniques, etc. The advertising customers enter their advertising content into the corresponding templates currently and specify the territorial area of influence or the routes of the transport network in or on which their advertising content is to be conveyed to the passengers. For this purpose, there is a dialogue guide in the web portal of the operator, which also serves to determine details of the display of advertising information.

Der Eingabe-Schnittstelle 9 sind eine Authentisierungsprüfstufe 15 und eine erste, zentrale Vergebührungseinheit 17 zugeordnet. Diese dienen der Berechtigungsprüfung von auf den Leitzentralen-Server 3 bzw. dessen Informationsspeicher 5 zugreifenden Nutzern des Web-Portals bzw. der Ausführung eines (ersten) Vergebührungsvorganges im Zusammenhang mit der Dateneingabe in den Informationsspeicher 5, wie weiter oben bereits erläutert.The input interface 9 is assigned an authentication check stage 15 and a first central charge unit 17. These serve the authorization check of users of the web portal accessing the central server 3 or its information memory 5 or the execution of a (first) billing operation in connection with the data input into the information memory 5, as already explained above.

Die einer bestimmten Route des Verkehrsnetzes zuzuordnenden Werbeinformationen (Templates) werden entsprechend ihrer genaueren territorialen Spezifikation geordnet zu routenbezogenen Informationspaketen zusammengestellt, welche jeweils in einem Speicherbereich 5i des Informationsspeichers 5 gespeichert werden. In dem Routenspeicher 7 sind in Zuordnung zu den einzelnen Routen des Verkehrsnetzes die diese jeweils aktuell befahrenden Fahrzeuge gespeichert, und der Leitzentralen-Server 3 erzeugt unter Zugriff auf den Informationsspeicher 5 und den Routenspeicher 7 jeweils eine Echtzeit-Zuordnung der aktuellen routenbezogenen Informationspakete zu den einzelnen Fahrzeugen des Fuhrparks des Betreibers.The advertising information to be assigned to a specific route of the traffic network (templates) are arranged according to their precise territorial specification in order to form route-related information packets, which are stored in each case in a memory area 5i of the information memory 5. In the route memory 7 are in association with the individual routes of the transport network which stores these currently running vehicles, and the control center server 3 generates access to the information memory 5 and the route memory 7 each have a real-time assignment of the current route-related information packets to the individual vehicles of the fleet of the operator.

Unter Zeitsteuerung durch eine Zeitsteuerstufe 19 werden die Informationspakete über eine mit dem Leitzentralen-Server 3 verbundene Funksendestufe 21 an die Fahrzeuge des Fuhrparks ausgesandt. Diese haben jeweils Funkempfangsstufen 23, die mit einer Anzeigesteuereinrichtung 25 zur sequentiellen Steuerung der Anzeige der empfangenen Informationspakete auf Anzeigeschirmen 27 und (wahlweise) über Lautsprecher 28 im Fahrzeug verbunden ist.Under time control by a time control stage 19, the information packets are sent via a radio transmission stage 21 connected to the control center server 3 to the vehicles of the vehicle fleet. These each have radio receiving stages 23 which are connected to a display controller 25 for sequentially controlling the display of the received information packets on display screens 27 and (optionally) via loudspeakers 28 in the vehicle.

Mit einem Steuereingang der Anzeigesteuereinrichtung 25 ist ein GPS-Empfänger 29 verbunden, der die genauen Zeitpunkte der Anzeige der einzelnen Informationsinhalte des routenbezogenen Informationspaketes in Abhängigkeit vom tatsächlichen standort des Fahrzeugs steuern kann. Durch den GPS-Empfänger 29 erfolgt auch bei Fahrtantritt des Fahrzeuges an seinem Ausgangsort die Auswahl eines von mehreren in einem Informationspaket-Zwischenspeicher 31 gespeicherten empfangenen Informationspaketen. Dieses wird dann in die Anzeigesteuereinrichtung 25 geladen und sequentiell dargestellt. Es ist darauf hinzuweisen, daß das vorsehen eines Informationspaket-zwischenspeichers mit mehreren Speicherbereichen für eine Mehrzahl von Informationspaketen optional ist, d. h. auch eine Ausführung des Systems mit Speicherung nur eines einzigen routenbezogenen Informationspaketes im Fahrzeug sinnvoll sein kann. (In einer einfacheren alternativen Ausführung kann dessen Funktion bis zu einem gewissen Grade - insbesondere im Sinne einer Fahrtrichtungsumschaltung der Anzeige-Reihenfolge - durch eine manuelle Umschalteinrichtung ersetzt werden.) Außerdem ist mit der Anzeigesteuereinrichtung 25 eine zweite, dezentrale Vergebührungseinheit 33 verbunden, mit dem eine zweite Vergebührungskomponente in Abhängigkeit von der Menge und Darbietungsart der tatsächlich angezeigten Information realisiert wird. Die durch beide Vergebührungseinheiten 17, 33 ermittelten Gebührenkomponenten werden einem Vergebührungsrechner 35 der Leitzentrale zugeführt, der in bestimmten Zeitabständen (z. B. monatlich) einen dem Werbekunden insgesamt in Rechnung zu stellenden Gebührenbetrag für die Nutzung des Systems ermittelt und ausgibt.Connected to a control input of the display controller 25 is a GPS receiver 29 which can control the precise timings of the display of the individual information contents of the route-related information packet depending on the actual location of the vehicle. By the GPS receiver 29, the selection of one of a plurality of information packets stored in an information packet buffer 31 is also carried out when the vehicle starts to travel at its starting point. This is then loaded into the display controller 25 and displayed sequentially. It should be noted that the provision of an information packet buffer with several memory areas for a plurality of information packets is optional, ie an implementation of the system with storage of only a single route-related information packet in the vehicle may be useful. (In a simpler alternative embodiment, its function can to a certain extent - in particular in the sense of a direction change of the display order - be replaced by a manual switching device.) In addition, connected to the display controller 25 is a second decentralized charging unit 33, with which a second charging component is realized depending on the amount and the type of presentation of the information actually displayed. The fee components determined by the two charging units 17, 33 are forwarded to a charging computer 35 of the control center, which determines and issues a fee amount for the use of the system to be invoiced to the advertising customer at certain intervals (eg monthly).

Die Ausführung der Erfindung ist nicht auf das oben beschriebene Beispiel beschränkt, sondern im Rahmen der Ansprüche ebenso in einer Vielzahl von Abwandlungen möglich, die im Rahmen fachgemäßen Handelns liegen.The embodiment of the invention is not limited to the example described above, but within the scope of the claims also possible in a variety of modifications, which are within the scope of technical action.

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Informationsspeicher (erste Datenbasis)Information store (first database)
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Routenspeicher (zweite Datenbasis)Route memory (second database)
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InternetInternet
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AuthentisierungsprüfstufeAuthentisierungsprüfstufe
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  1. Information system (1) for a traffic network which is implemented with a plurality of circulating vehicles which are each route-bound, in particular for a scheduled bus network, railway network or flight network, having
    - an information control centre (3 to 9, 15 to 19) with a central information memory (5) which has a plurality of information-packet memory areas (5i) for one route-related information packet in each case, and a route memory (7) in which current assignments between routes of the traffic network and vehicles are stored,
    - an individual transmitter device (21), connected directly to the information control centre, of a wire-free communications arrangement (21, 23) for outputting the route-related information packets to vehicles serving a specific route,
    - a plurality of receiver devices (23) of a wire-free communications arrangement which are each arranged in a vehicle of the traffic network, for receiving in each case one information packet which is predetermined for this vehicle,
    - a plurality of display control devices (25) which are each arranged in a vehicle and are connected at the input end to a receiver device, for conditioning and controlling the display of the respectively received information packet, the display control devices (25) having registering devices (33) for registering the quantity or duration of information displays in a predetermined time period, the registration result of which can be read out from the information control centre, and
    - a plurality of display devices (27) which are each arranged in a vehicle and are connected at the input end to the display control device provided there, for, in particular, sequential display, distributed over the travel time, of the route-related information packet selected for the vehicle, while a route is being served by the vehicle.
  2. Information system according to Claim 1, characterized in that the display control devices (25) have control means (29) for changing the sequence of the display of the contents of the respective information packet as a function of the direction of travel when the route is being served by the vehicle.
  3. Information system according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the display control devices (25) have an information packet buffer (31) for internally storing at least one information packet, preferably a plurality of information packets for a plurality of routes and/or directions of travel, in the vehicle.
  4. Information system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the communications arrangement (21, 23) is embodied as a wire-free local network, in particular with a mobile radio transmitter part and a plurality of mobile radio receiver parts.
  5. Information system according to one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the communications arrangement (21, 23) has a plurality of mobile radio terminals in a public mobile radio network.
  6. Information system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the information control centre (3 to 9, 15 to 19) has a timer stage (19) for controlling the transmission of the information packets to the vehicles at predetermined times or in predetermined time periods.
  7. Information system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the memory areas (5i) of the central information memory (5) are configured to implement standardized input frames, in particular according to an Internet protocol.
  8. Information system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the information control centre has an input interface (9) for connecting to an IP network, in particular the Internet (11), for the formalized external inputting of information into the information memory in order to form the information packets.
  9. Information system according to Claim 8, characterized in that an authentication device (15) for checking authorization in conjunction with an input and/or a billing device (17) for billing for an input into the information memory is assigned to the input interface (9).
  10. Information system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the display control devices (25) have manual or automatic selector means, connected in particular to a signal output of a GPS receiver (29), for selecting one of a plurality of available route-related information packets.
  11. Information system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the display devices are embodied as optical display devices, in particular LCD, plasma or LED display units and/or acoustic transmission devices, in particular loudspeaker or headset arrangements.
  12. Method for displaying information in route-bound, circulating vehicles which implement a traffic network, in particular a scheduled bus network, railway network or flight network, and each have a display device for displaying information and a display control device for controlling display, with the information being stored in an information control centre and being transferred from it to the vehicles, in each case a route-related information packet being stored in a central information memory of the information control centre with a plurality of information packet memory areas, and current assignments between routes of the traffic network and vehicles which serve them being stored in a route memory,
    route-related information packets being each output to vehicles serving a specific route by a transmitter device, connected to the information control centre, of a wire-free communications arrangement,
    in each case a route-related information packet which is predetermined for this vehicle being received by receiver devices of the wire-free communications arrangement in the vehicles and this information packet being conditioned by the display control device in the vehicle and its, in particular sequential, display which is distributed over the travel time being controlled on the display device,
    characterized in that
    the quantity and/or duration of information displays in a predetermined time period is registered by a registration device (33) of the display control device (25), in which case the registration result thereof can be read out from the information control centre.
  13. Method according to Claim 12, characterized in that the contents of the respect information packet are displayed in a sequence which is selected as a function of the direction of travel when the route is being served by the vehicle.
  14. Method according to Claim 12 or 13, characterized in that one of a plurality of information packets which are buffered in the vehicle is selected manually or automatically as a function of the specific route.
  15. Method according to one of Claims 12 to 14, characterized in that the individual contents of a route-related information packet are displayed as a function of the position of the vehicle when the route is served.
  16. Method according to one of Claims 12 to 15, characterized in that the central information memory of the information control centre is supplied externally with information, in particular advertising information, in particular via an input interface, for connecting to an IP network.
  17. Method according to Claim 16, characterized in that the external supplying of the central information memory with information is permitted as a function of authentication and/or the collection of a fee.
  18. Method according to one of Claims 12 to 17, characterized in that the information packets comprise advertising information and/or location-related and/or traffic-network-related information as text information, video information and/or audio information.
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