Abstract: A wireless device-based system provides location-based services by determining the location of the wireless device and arranges for the service and the payment therefor.

Abstract: A wireless device-based system provides location-based services by determining the location of the wireless device and arranges for the service and the payment therefor.

Abstract: A wireless phone having an internal GPS-receiver is turned on by an auxiliary switch coupled to a Microwire bus for turning on the phone and the internally carried GPS receiver so that the phone can be made to call a predetermined number and report location. If the switch closure is a result of paging, a phone can be paged to report location whether or not the phone is initially off. This accommodates such applications as Alzheimer patients, truck-tracking, kid-tracking, pet-tracking and in general any application in which a wireless communications device such as a cell phone can be caused to report location, with the phone initially in an off condition. Alternative activations through the closure of specialized switches responsive to airbag deployment, car alarm activation, medical condition alerts, and perimeter violations, provides local activation of the system.

Abstract: A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless phone, with the wireless phone adapted to call a predetermined number requesting the desired service and providing the location of the cellular phone. In one embodiment, the GPS receiver is co-located with the wireless phone in a car, with the wireless phone being carried in a handsfree cradle having a number of service-request buttons, such that depression of a service-request button activates the wireless phone through its bus structure to call a predetermined number and provide the identity of the caller along with the caller's location.

Abstract: A wireless phone having an internal GPS-receiver is turned on by an auxiliary switch coupled to a Microwire bus for turning on the phone and the internally carried GPS receiver so that the phone can be made to call a predetermined number and report location. If the switch closure is a result of paging, a phone can be paged to report location whether or not the phone is initially off. This accommodates such applications as Alzheimer patients, truck-tracking, kid-tracking, pet-tracking and in general any application in which a wireless communications device such as a cell phone can be caused to report location, with the phone initially in an off condition. Alternative activations through the closure of specialized switches responsive to airbag deployment, car alarm activation, medical condition alerts, and perimeter violations, provides local activation of the system.

Abstract: A wireless phone is provided with a GPS receiver and a system which is utilized to report the local position of the wireless phone either prior or during to the time of a telephone placed wager, in which the geographic coordinates of the phone are transmitted to the sports bet for verification that the wager is being placed within the geographic limits of the wagering authority. In one embodiment spoofing of the system is prevented by having the wireless phone report the time since last fix such that an individual within the wagering authority's jurisdiction cannot remove himself from the jurisdiction with the location having been remembered, with the wager taking entity processing as valid only those geographic coordinates having a time since last fix of, for instance, ten minutes. Anything over this pre-determined limit is determined to be an invalid wager.

Abstract: A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of Certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless phone, with the wireless, phone adapted to call a predetermined number requesting the desired service and providing the location of the cellular phone. In one embodiment, the GPS receiver is co-located with the wireless phone in a car, with the wireless phone being carried in a handsfree cradle having a number of service-request buttons, such that depression of a service-request button activates the wireless phone through its bus structure to call a predetermined number and provide the identity of the caller along with the caller's location.

Abstract: An audio coupling is provided between a location reporting unit and the microphone of a wireless phone in which location information is provided either by synthesized voice and/or DTMF tones through the audio coupling to the microphone such that the location of the wireless phone can be broadcast on the normal voice channel to a dispatch operation such as a Public Safety Answering Point or to a location-based service provider. The subject interface makes possible the adaptation of any wireless phone to provide location-based information without change to the wireless phone and without any additional infrastructure for the wireless network. The utilization of synthesized speech and/or DTMF tones over the voice channel provides a universality for the system, which can be utilized anywhere where there is both wireless and GPS satellite coverage.

Abstract: In a wireless transceiver in which digital data is to be transmitted over a wireless network, digital data such as from a GPS receiver is encoded by a synthetic speech synthesizer, which generates DTMF tones that are injected into the audio channel. For digital wireless phones in which audio signals are digitized via compression and expansion, the utilization of the speech synthesizer provides tones of such clarity and purity that they are unaffected during the compression and expansion process.

Abstract: A GPS receiver is mounted within a wireless handset in which the GPS receiver is spaced from a phone motherboard carrying a transmit section, with shielding interposed between the GPS receiver and the phone motherboard for suppressing radiation which interferes with the proper operation of the GPS receiver. The result is that the GPS receiver is not mounted to the phone motherboard but rather is spaced from one side thereof, with the receiver, in one embodiment, being placed in a shielded housing so as to form a Faraday cage around the GPS receiver. In order to further minimize interference between the radiation from the transmit section of the phone motherboard and the GPS receiver, a GPS antenna is utilized which has a two or three pole filter and a low noise amplifier tuned to reject the interfering radiation from the phone motherboard and in one embodiment is provided with a semi-rigid coaxial cable to prevent interfering radiation from entering the GPS receiver through the coaxial cable.

Abstract: A wireless phone is provided with a GPS receiver and a system which is utilized to report the local position of the wireless phone either prior or during to the time of a telephone placed wager, in which the geographic coordinates of the phone are transmitted to the sports bet for verification that the wager is being placed within the geographic limits of the wagering authority. In one embodiment spoofing of the system is prevented by having the wireless phone report the time since last fix such that an individual within the wagering authority's jurisdiction cannot remove himself from the jurisdiction with the location having been remembered, with the wager taking entity processing as valid only those geographic coordinates having a time since last fix of, for instance, ten minutes. Anything over this predetermined limit is determined to be an invalid wager.

Abstract: The control of a wireless phone from a universal module having a predetermined serial output stream is provided to a minicompiler or microprocessor which compiles the output from the module into a form compatible with an existing wireless phone, either by converting the predetermined format into one acceptable to the phone or by providing that the serial data be transformed into switch closure signals which are directly coupled to the keypad of the phone. In this manner a module such as a GPS-based locator system may be utilized to control the phone to dial a particular phone number and to provide the GPS data either by directly controlling the data transfer mechanism within the wireless phone or by actuating the key switches to dial the particular phone number and to then provide the location information via switch activations.

Abstract: An infrastructureless system is provided for automatically providing the telephone number of the phone making an emergency call by utilizing a synthetic voice announcement of the phone number during the emergency transmission from the phone, thereby to eliminate infrastructure involved in providing the telephone number to the recipient of the emergency call.

Abstract: In a wireless emergency location system in which a cellular phone is utilized to communicate the location of an individual or vehicle by announcing position based on the output of a GPS receiver, time since last fix is computed and annunciated to permit emergency personnel to ascertain if the position information is valid. In a one embodiment, velocity and direction of travel are also annunciated for permitting emergency personnel to calculate the location of the phone and thus a stricken individual. Time since last fix as well as velocity and direction annunciation is also used to enable location of stolen or hijacked vehicles assuming location information is no longer available at the phone or satellite fix has been lost.

Abstract: An Emergency Vessel Location System (EVLS) which broadcasts a verbal MAYDAY message including the vessel or vehicle identification number (VIN) and the vessel position via a transceiver controlled by the EVLS is provided with a verbal scrolling technique to initially load a VIN number into the EVLS. The verbal scroll entails annunciating letters of the alphabet and then numbers one at a time. In one embodiment programming is performed by two switches, one a TEST switch on the microphone, although any two switches may be used singly and in combination to enter the VIN. One switch is used to advance the scroll, while the other is used to select an entry.

Abstract: A system is provided for enhancing the reliability of rescue services by providing a 911 back-up system in which the termination of an emergency call is sensed followed by dialing the telephone number of a predetermined dispatch office, with the dispatch office providing a call back to the nearest PSAP to ascertain whether or not rescue is on the way. In one embodiment for cellular phone applications, termination of the emergency call is sensed by detecting the call-in-progress flag available on the phone's bus. In another embodiment, the originating phone transmits the telephone number of the originating phone to permit personnel at the dispatch office to call the originating phone back to ascertain the nature of the problem and if dispatched help has arrived.