Personal communication system for communicating voice data positioning information
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1. A locating and map downloading system comprising:
- a personal digital communicator comprising;
a display;
a receiver for receiving GPS signals;
a first transceiver;
a first modem coupled to the transceiver and to a first digital processor, communicator input means for formatting a request for map information;
the first digital processor providing a means for processing the GPS signals and determining therefrom the location of the communicator, for transmitting via the first modem and the first transceiver the request for map information, for displaying on the display map information responsive to the request, and for displaying on the display the communicator location with reference to the map information; and
a map storage and transmitting device comprising a second transceiver, a second modem coupled to the second transceiver and a second digital processor, memory for storing map information in digital form, the second digital processor providing a means for determining which map information stored in the memory is responsive to the request and transmitting via the second modem and the second transceiver the map information responsive to the request.
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Abstract
A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the PCD. The data providers respond to requests by using searching and sorting schemes to interrogate data bases and then automatically transmitting data responsive to the requests to the requesting PCD.
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50 Claims
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1. A locating and map downloading system comprising:
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a personal digital communicator comprising;
a display;
a receiver for receiving GPS signals;
a first transceiver;
a first modem coupled to the transceiver and to a first digital processor, communicator input means for formatting a request for map information;
the first digital processor providing a means for processing the GPS signals and determining therefrom the location of the communicator, for transmitting via the first modem and the first transceiver the request for map information, for displaying on the display map information responsive to the request, and for displaying on the display the communicator location with reference to the map information; and
a map storage and transmitting device comprising a second transceiver, a second modem coupled to the second transceiver and a second digital processor, memory for storing map information in digital form, the second digital processor providing a means for determining which map information stored in the memory is responsive to the request and transmitting via the second modem and the second transceiver the map information responsive to the request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A personal digital communicator device comprising:
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a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals;
a processor to determine the device location based on the GPS signals;
communication means to provide the device location to other personal digital communicator devices, to receive the device locations of the other personal digital communicators, and to request and receive map information from digital map storage devices; and
a display to display external map information received from digital map storage devices, and the device location and the other device locations on the external map information display. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. A location tagged information storage and transceiver system comprising:
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a transceiver means for receiving and transmitting digital data from and to an external computer;
a computer processor;
computer memory for storing map data for geographic areas and non-map data, with the non-map data in linked data fields concerning specific locations within the geographic areas for which map data is available tagged to the map data;
a sorting application module executed by the processor responsive to requests for specified non-map data concerning specified geographic areas, the sorting application module searching the computer memory by data fields for the specified non-map data and providing the specified non-map data and non-map data linked to the specified non-map data to the transceiver means; and
the transceiver means transmits the specified non-map data and the data linked to the specified non-map data. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50)
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