Apparatus And Method For Tracking Stolen Vehicles
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1. A method of tracking a stolen vehicle, comprising:
- conducting communications between at least one device in a vehicle and at least one of;
a base station in a communication network and an external navigation system;
at a jamming detection module at the vehicle;
detecting that jamming is occurring with at least some of the communications;
at a vehicle tracking device at the vehicle;
when activated by a control signal from a vehicle recovery service, transmitting a vehicle location signal over a channel in the communication network allowing a vehicle recovery service to track a location of the vehicle;
when jamming is detected and before the control signal is received, transmitting the vehicle location signal to the vehicle recovery service over the channel.
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Abstract
An indication that jamming is occurring with vehicular communications is received. When activated by a control signal from a vehicle recovery service, a vehicle location signal is transmitted over a channel in the communication network that enables the vehicle recovery service to track a location of the vehicle. When the indication of jamming is received and before the control signal is received, the vehicle location signal is also transmitted to the vehicle recovery service.
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1. A method of tracking a stolen vehicle, comprising:
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conducting communications between at least one device in a vehicle and at least one of;
a base station in a communication network and an external navigation system;
at a jamming detection module at the vehicle;detecting that jamming is occurring with at least some of the communications;
at a vehicle tracking device at the vehicle;when activated by a control signal from a vehicle recovery service, transmitting a vehicle location signal over a channel in the communication network allowing a vehicle recovery service to track a location of the vehicle; when jamming is detected and before the control signal is received, transmitting the vehicle location signal to the vehicle recovery service over the channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus for sending a warning that a vehicle is being stolen, comprising:
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an interface having an input and output and for receiving a indication at the input that jamming of communications at a vehicle; a controller coupled to the interface and configured to receive a control signal from a vehicle recovery service and to responsively transmit a vehicle location signal at the output, the vehicle location signal being over a channel in the communication network that enables the vehicle recovery service to track a location of the vehicle, the controller being further configured to when the indication of jamming is received and before the control signal is received, transmit the vehicle location signal at the output of the interface to the vehicle recovery service. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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10. A computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method of tracking a stolen vehicle, comprising:
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conducting communications between at least one device in a vehicle and at least one of;
a base station in a communication network and an external navigation system;
at a jamming detection module at the vehicle;detecting that jamming is occurring with at least some of the communications;
at a vehicle tracking device at the vehicle;when activated by a control signal from a vehicle recovery service, transmitting a vehicle location signal over a channel in the communication network allowing a vehicle recovery service to track a location of the vehicle; when jamming is detected and before the control signal is received, transmitting the vehicle location signal to the vehicle recovery service over the channel. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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