Patents Examined by Iqbal Khawar
  • Patent number: 6496702
    Abstract: A service communication system for mobile vehicles has a cellular telephony interface in individual ones of the mobile vehicles, for establishing telephony events over a cellular network with a base station, and a global positioning system in individual ones of the mobile vehicles for determining global position from transmissions from GPS satellites. A network of cellular base stations receives from and broadcasts to the mobile vehicles, lo and bridges events between cellular and public switched telephone service (PSTN) protocol. A unique network-level routing system is connected by first telephony trunks to the base stations and enabled to retrieve GPS position from the telephony events, and is connected by other trunks to a plurality of service centers connected to the network-level routing system, which determines a destination for individual ones of the telephony events among the plurality of service centers according to the retrieved GPS position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanford Wayne Lockhart