Hand-held cellular telephone system with location transmission inhibit
First Claim
1. A monitoring and control system for cellular telephone transmission for inhibiting transmissions with a cell phone in a on-the-highway location, said cell phone communicating with a cell tower including a base station having a communications server, said cell phone having a main microprocessor, an operator touch pad connected to input to said main microprocessor, a protocol encoder/decoder circuit connected to said main processor, a modem connected to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit, and a transceiver connected to said modem, comprising:
- a high definition GPS location receiver circuit connected to receive satellite GPS information through said cell phone antenna, and connected to said main processor for providing GPS location data of said cell phone to said main processor;
a hands-free adaptor (HFA) connected to input to said main processor, said input providing operation signals to said main processor;
a cell unit GPS location data line from said main processor to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit;
a HFA presence bit line from said main process to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit, said bit being “
high”
when said hands-free adaptor is connected and operational;
a transmission data line from said main processor to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit;
wherein said encoder/decoder formats the request for transmission call to a cell tower, said request including cell phone GPS location data and a HFA presence indicator bit; and
detection software resident in the communications server for said cell tower being requested for transmission, said software interrogating said cell phone transmission request, including the reading of said cell phone GPS location information and said cell phone HFA bit information, said software inhibiting further transmission with said cell phone when said cell phone is at an on-the-highway location without HFA presence.
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Abstract
A digital cellular telephone circuit contains a GPS (Global Positioning System) location circuit, which generates a location code indication signal transmitted to a cellular signal processing station communication server at a local cell base station, when a transmission (telephone call) is placed or received by a cellular user. A program on the server interrogates appropriate ones of various stored databases which contain location information for cell transmission inhibit. Monitoring and control software in the communications server compares the cellular telephone'"'"'s GPS location against the stored databases of transmission inhibit locations. Such inhibit locations may include GPS highways locations, restricted commerce GPS locations, restricted activity selection, and others. If location or activity transmission inhibit data is found, the control software looks for the presence of an override signal bit. A rejection tone or message may be sent when calls are rejected. If the cellular telephone has been connected in an override state as a result of a special predetermined condition, i.e., a hands-free communication, or a “911” emergency call or medical alert is being placed, the cellular unit transmits an indicator signal which causes a by-pass of the inhibit function.
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8 Claims
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1. A monitoring and control system for cellular telephone transmission for inhibiting transmissions with a cell phone in a on-the-highway location, said cell phone communicating with a cell tower including a base station having a communications server, said cell phone having a main microprocessor, an operator touch pad connected to input to said main microprocessor, a protocol encoder/decoder circuit connected to said main processor, a modem connected to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit, and a transceiver connected to said modem, comprising:
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a high definition GPS location receiver circuit connected to receive satellite GPS information through said cell phone antenna, and connected to said main processor for providing GPS location data of said cell phone to said main processor;
a hands-free adaptor (HFA) connected to input to said main processor, said input providing operation signals to said main processor;
a cell unit GPS location data line from said main processor to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit;
a HFA presence bit line from said main process to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit, said bit being “
high”
when said hands-free adaptor is connected and operational;
a transmission data line from said main processor to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit;
wherein said encoder/decoder formats the request for transmission call to a cell tower, said request including cell phone GPS location data and a HFA presence indicator bit; and
detection software resident in the communications server for said cell tower being requested for transmission, said software interrogating said cell phone transmission request, including the reading of said cell phone GPS location information and said cell phone HFA bit information, said software inhibiting further transmission with said cell phone when said cell phone is at an on-the-highway location without HFA presence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
an AM noise receiver connected to receive radio frequency noise generated by an operating engine through said cell phone antenna, and connected to said main processor for providing a noise presence bit to said main processor in the presence of engine operating noise; and
an engine operation, on-the-highway indicator bit line from said main processor to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit.
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3. The monitoring and control system of claim 2 wherein said AM noise receiver includes a 2 KHz-110 KHz noise receiver connected to receive radio frequency noise generated by an operating engine through said cell phone antenna, and connected to said main processor for providing a noise presence bit to said main processor in the presence of engine operating noise.
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4. The monitoring and control system of claim 1 wherein said cell tower base station communications server is connected to receive weather bureau information of severe weather by GPS location, and wherein said cell phone transmission is denied when said cell phone is at a severe weather location.
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5. The monitoring and control system of claim 4 wherein said detection software at said communications server performs the following steps:
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determining if a call request is from a land line;
if not from a land line, reading the cell phone request information including emergency priority request (“
911”
), cell phone GPS location, HFA bit presence, engine noise bit presence;
validating the request information;
validating the cell phone EDN, and if not valid disconnecting;
determining if a “
911”
emergency call, and if so, sending cell unit GPS location to emergency services and providing a priority connection to the transmission channel;
validating cell phone telephone number, and if not valid disconnecting;
determining if an engine operation, on-the-highway indicator bit is present, and if not then connecting the cell phone to a transmission channel;
if an engine operation, on-the-highway indicator bit is present, then determining if there is sever weather at the cell phone GPS location, and if so rejecting the cell call request and disconnecting;
if an engine operation, on-the-highway indicator bit is present, and there is determined no severe weather at the cell phone GPS location, then determining HFA presence and operation, if not then disconnecting; and
when the engine operation, on-the-highway indicator bit is present, there is no severe weather at the cell phone GPS location, and the HFA bit is present, then connecting the cell phone to a transmission channel.
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6. The monitoring and control system of claim 1 wherein said detection software at said communications server performs the following steps:
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determining if a call request if from a land line;
if not from a land line, reading the cell phone request information including emergency priority request (“
911”
), cell phone GPS location, HFA bit presence, engine noise bit presence;
validating the request information;
validating the cell phone EDN, and if not valid disconnecting;
determining if a “
911”
emergency call, and if so, sending cell unit GPS location to emergency services and providing a priority connection to the transmission channel;
validating cell phone telephone number, and if not valid disconnecting;
comparing cell phone GPS location with highway GPS database to determine if cell phone on-the-highway, and if not then connecting the cell phone to a transmission channel;
if the cell phone GPS location is on-the-highway, then determining if there is severe weather at that GPS location, and if so rejecting the cell call request and disconnecting;
if the cell phone GPS location is on-the-highway, and there is determined no severe weather at that GPS location, then determining HFA prsence and operation, if not then disconnecting; and
when the cell phone GPS location is on-the-highway, there is no severe weather at that GPS location, and the HFA bit is present, then connecting the cell phone to a transmission channel.
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7. A method of inhibiting transmissions with a cell phone in a prohibited situation in an existing cellular telephone transmission system, where each cell phone has GPS position signal reception and high definition location calculation, with a programmed monitoring and control circuit interposed before a base station communications server to interrupt cell phone transmissions to or from said base station communications server, comprising the steps of:
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placing said cell phone GPS location in the transmission request header format of said cell phone transmission;
storing data of prohibited situations for said cell phone transmission;
intercepting each transmission request to and from said cell phone and comparing said cell phone header to said stored prohibited situation data; and
inhibiting transmission between said cell phone and said cellular telephone transmission system if said prohibited situation data is matched also including after the step of inhibiting transmission the steps of;
establishing a mail box for said cell phone;
placing the time and telephone number of said cell phone for which transmission was inhibited in said mail box; and
sending an inhibit message to said cell phone for which transmission was inhibited also including after the step of intercepting each transmission request the steps of;
determining if said transmission request is from a cell phone and if said transmission request is an emergency call; and
permitting said call to go through without inhibiting transmission if it is an emergency call;
wherein said storing data of prohibited situations step includes storing GPS location data of on the highway locations; and
wherein said comparing step includes comparing said cell phone header GPS location information to said stored GPS location data of on the highway locations.- View Dependent Claims (8)
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