TRANSMITTER AUGMENTED RADAR/LASER DETECTION USING LOCAL MOBILE NETWORK WITHIN A WIDE AREA NETWORK
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Abstract
A radar/laser emission detector is augmented with a cellular communications capability to provide the capability to share emission detection information amongst drivers to give other drivers even more advanced warning. A network of a plurality of cellular augmented radar/laser emission detector devices may be formed, each having the capability to source the location of radar or laser emission detections to others requesting access to such information, and each being warned when within a proximity of a recent radar or laser emission detection reported by at least one of the plurality of hybrid radar/laser detector devices. A local area, mobile area wireless network (MAWN) is formed in a cellular network to share radar/laser detection information among drivers. Mobile Position Centers (MPCs) are provided in ANSI-41 networks and Gateway Mobile Location Centres (GMLCs) (GSM networks), to determine other members that are proximate to a device that is detecting radar emission.
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61 Claims
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21. A method of forming a mobile area wireless network within a wide area network, comprising:
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populating a physical warning database with current location information for each of a plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion; querying said physical warning database to determine a subset of said plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion that are proximate to a given wireless warning detector in motion; and transmitting a warning event, local to said given wireless warning detector, to only said subset of said plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A wireless warning detector formed mobile area wireless network within a wide area network, comprising:
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a physical warning database to obtain current location information for each of a plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion, and to provide a determination of a subset of said plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion that are proximate to a given wireless warning detector in motion; and a transmitter to transmit a warning event, local to said given wireless warning detector, to only said subset of wireless warning detectors in motion. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A method of forming a mobile area wireless network within a wide area network, comprising:
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populating a physical warning database with current location information for each of a plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion; querying said physical warning database to determine a subset of said plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion that are proximate to a given wireless warning detector in motion; and transmitting vehicle dynamics based information from said given wireless warning detector to only said subset of said plurality of wireless warning detectors in motion. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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52-1. The wireless warning detector forming a area wireless network within a wide area network according to claim 52, wherein:
said vehicle dynamics based information includes at least one of accelerating, braking, emergency braking, and beginning to change lanes information.
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