METHOD OF ESTABLISHING A CELL PHONE NETWORK OF PARTICIPANTS WITH A COMMON INTEREST
First Claim
1. A method of communicating among a group of participants each having a PDA or Smart cell phone, an associated GPS and Advanced Communications Software (ACS) allowing all cell phone users to exchange data through a server for establishing a network of participants who exchange and display identity, location, status and, optionally, personal data.
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Abstract
A method, a combined cellular, PDA communication device and 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 to poll the network participants to create a network of participants who have symbols displayed on each user'"'"'s PDA display screen and providing application software in each cell phone with a server to allow individual users to create, by polling the network, a group of network participants having a common interest, or a network of friends and family for a network of all active participants. The method, device and system employed herein can also be used to establish an anonymous dating service that allows individual participants using their cell phones to identify and contact others for dating or social interaction without giving away their actual name and phone number.
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6 Claims
- 1. A method of communicating among a group of participants each having a PDA or Smart cell phone, an associated GPS and Advanced Communications Software (ACS) allowing all cell phone users to exchange data through a server for establishing a network of participants who exchange and display identity, location, status and, optionally, personal data.
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6. A method establishing totally anonymous voice and data communications among a group of participants each desiring to establish a social contact with a heretofore unknown person for dating or other purposes that includes the use of a network of ACS enabled PDA or Smart cell phones having a GPS and 800 bridging application software and a server with ACS whose function is to establish a network of the cell phones comprising the steps of:
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a. providing a network of participants each having a specific cell phone with the appropriate communication software for establishing dating contacts using the cell phone; b. locating and communicating with other network participants who wish to be joined in the dating process using the cell phones; c. providing in each cell phone a menu for entering personal data of the cell phone user including personality information such as but not limited to;
dating name (which need not be the person'"'"'s real name), age, sex, race, marital status and interest areas, each of which may have its own assigned symbol type and/or color;d. providing each cell phone a menu for entering personal dating selection criteria of the type of person desired including but not limited to such information as age, sex, race, interest area, and marital status; e. causing the operator'"'"'s symbol to appear geographically superimposed on the display map of the cell phone which is then sent to other participants in the network dating group; f having members of the network participants transmit location and personal information to other network participants for display on each of the cell phone participant'"'"'s display screens; g. providing a selection process whereby each user can choose to display only those symbols that meet his or her dating criteria; h. providing a means to place totally anonymous voice calls or to anonymously send data between the two parties by touching their symbol on the screen and selecting the appropriate soft switch whereby the parties may converse either by cell phone, messages, photographs or video; and i. providing a means to block messages, photographs, video or voice calls from designated parties.
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