METHOD OF CONTROLLING USER AND REMOTE CELL PHONE TRANSMISSIONS AND DISPLAYS

• US 20080076410A1
• Filed: 12/19/2006
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AGIS Software Development LLC (AGIS Holdings Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Malcolm K. Beyer
• Inventors: Beyer, Malcolm K.
• Granted Patent: US 7,853,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/425
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/62 user interface aspects of conference calls
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method, a combined cellular, PDA communication device, and a system having specialized software applications for allowing a plurality of combined cellular phone/PDA device users to monitor each others'"'"' locations and status, to initiate cellular phone calls by touching a symbol on the touch screen display with a stylus which can also include point to call conferencing calling. Each participant'"'"'s cellular phone/PDA device includes a GPS navigation receiver with application software for point to call cellular phone initiation to participants and geographical entities including vehicles, persons or events, conference calls and video transfers. The method, device and system also includes several features that allow each individual cell phone/PDA device user to: a) transmit and remotely control one or more other participants'"'"' cell phones; b) allow a user to stop sending or transmitting digital messages or messages from an individual user phone; c) provide the individual user with a soft switch that causes destruction of the user'"'"'s display and/or message location processing software in the user'"'"'s cell phone while turning off the speaker and activating a microphone so that conversations near the user'"'"'s cell phone can be monitored; and d) transmit and destroy a remote phone'"'"'s location display and/or message location processing software while turning off the remote phone speaker and activating the remote phone microphone so that conversations near the remote phone can be monitored

Claims

1. A method of providing a cellular phone communication network for designated participating users, each user having a similarly equipped PDA/cell phone that includes a CPU, a GPS navigational system and a touch screen display:

providing rapid voice call initiation and communication among the users of the cellular phone/PDA/GPS network system using a touch screen;

providing each cellular/PDA/GPS phone with a software application program and database that permits each cell phone user to continuously know each other'"'"'s geographical location and status which is displayed on the display touch screen of each cell phone;

displaying on each cell phone display one or more symbols representing the other users in the network having similarly equipped cell phones that transmit their geographical location upon request, time, distance traveled, or other criteria to the other users in the network periodically so that each cell phone user has a touch display with symbols representing the other users in the network geographically;

providing a plurality of soft switches on each touch screen display of each cell phone in the user network that includes initiating a rapid voice call to any other user in the network through touching said first voice call switch after hooking a specific symbol or symbols that automatically calls the symbol(s) touched at the location(s), said database in each of said cell phone including the data link received, operator loaded or pre-loaded cell phone telephone number of each of the users and the phone numbers, URLs and E-mail addresses of fixed sites displayed in the network geographically and symbolically;

providing a remote server for communicating with each cell phone;

providing in each PDA/cell phone an application program that includes messaging software for transmitting and receiving messages including;

voice, text photographs and video among all of the users in the network having a similarly equipped cell phone/PDA unit;

providing within each user'"'"'s own cell phone a software program and soft switch display to preclude the detection of its use or its use by unauthorized users;

providing a soft switch and the software accessed by said soft switch for turning off the transmitter of the user'"'"'s own cell phone to prevent transmission of data and thereby deny the ability for non-authorized persons to detect the location of the network participant;

providing a soft switch and the software accessed by the soft switch for destroying the display software of the user'"'"'s own cell phone thus precluding non-authorized personnel from seeing the location of the other network participants while permitting continued tracking of the phone'"'"'s location and optionally turning off the phone'"'"'s speaker and turning on the phone'"'"'s microphone so that conversations of personnel in the vicinity of the phone can be heard; and

providing a soft switch and the software accessed by the soft switch that causes destruction of the user'"'"'s own cell phone message received location processing and display software thus precluding its use by others and optionally turning off its speaker and on its microphone so that the conversations of personnel in the vicinity can be heard.

2. A method as in claim 1, including the additional steps of:

providing a soft switch and the software accessed by the soft switch, that causes a digital message to be sent to a remote cell phone disabling in each cell phone the remote phone'"'"'s display thus precluding non-authorized personnel from seeing the location of the other network participants while permitting continued tracking of the phone'"'"'s location and optionally turning off the phone'"'"'s speaker and turning on the phone'"'"'s microphone so that conversations of personnel in the vicinity of the phone can be heard; and

providing a soft switch and the software accessed by the soft switch that causes a digital message to be sent to the remote phone commanding destruction of the network participant'"'"'s message receive location processing and display software thus precluding its use by others and optionally turning off its speaker and turning on its microphone thus permitting the monitoring of conversations in the vicinity of the microphone.

3. A communication system to provide a cellular phone network for a group of participants, each of the participants having an individual portable cellular phone that includes a CPU and a GPS navigational system that can accurately determine the location of the cellular phone. Each of the cellular phones in the communications net of participants contains:

a CPU and memory;

a touch screen display;

symbol generator in said CPU that can generate symbols that represent each of the participants in the communication network on the display screen;

a database that stores the individual telephone numbers related to each of the symbols each of which represents a participant in the communication network;

cellular phone call initiating software in said CPU connected to the telephone number database and the touch screen and the symbols on the touch screen whereby touching an individual symbol will automatically initiate a cellular phone telephone call to the use represented by the symbol;

said display including databases that display geographical information that includes showing the geographical location of each of the symbols representing participants in the communication network, fixed locations, and entered items of interest;

a server for remotely controlling a remote cell phone transmissions and display; and

cell phone software including a displayed soft switch that causes destruction of the user'"'"'s own cell phone message received location processing and display software to preclude its use by others.

4. A communication system as in claim 3, including:

cell phone software in each of the network users'"'"' cell phones including a soft switch that initiates a digital message to be sent to a remote cell phone that includes the destruction of the remote cell phone message received location processing and display software allowing one user to remotely shut down the remote user'"'"'s location processing and display software.

5. A cellular phone for use in a communication network for a plurality of participants comprising:

a cellular phone transmitter and receiver;

a small hand held portable housing containing said cellular phone transmitter and receiver;

a touch display screen mounted in said housing;

a modem connected to said cellular phone transmitter and receiver;

a CPU connected to said cellular phone transmitter and receiver;

a GPS navigation system connected to said CPU and to said cellular phone transmitter and receiver on said touch screen;

a database connected to said CPU that includes the symbol of a list of telephone numbers that relate to specific symbols;

a symbol generator connected to said CPU and said database for generating symbols on said touch screen, each of said symbols representing a participant in a communication network that has a cellular phone;

CPU software for selectively polling other participants with a cellular phone;

call initiating software connected through said CPU and said telephone database and said symbol generator whereby when a user touches the symbol displayed on a display screen the cellular phone call is automatically initiated to the cellular phone represented by the symbol;

a geographical database connected to said CPU to provide a geographical display on said touch screen representing a defined geographical area that also displays symbols representing each of the participants that has an identical cellular phone by latitude and longitude;

software program in each cell phone to control a remote cell phone including stopping transmissions from a remote cell phone; and

software provided in each cell phone including a corresponding soft switch that causes a digital message to be sent to a remote cell phone commanding destruction of the network participant'"'"'s message received location processing and display software thus precluding its use by others.

6. A cell phone as in claim 5, including:

means for remotely turning off a remote cell phone speaker and turning on its microphone to permit monitoring of conversations in the vicinity of the remote microphone.