Apparatus for communicating with law enforcement during vehicle travel and associated methods
First Claim
1. Officer communications enhancing software stored on a vehicle computer having an officer display connected thereto and in communication with mobile data communications software stored on the vehicle computer to enhance officer communication with the department server through the vehicle computer, the officer communications enhancing software comprising:
- a form completing enhancer to generate and populate a plurality of preselected incident forms on an officer display attached to the vehicle computer, the form completing enhancer including at least one form database including a plurality of preselected incident forms, a form display graphical user interface in communication with the form database to graphically display one of the preselected incident forms to the officer, and a form enhancing populator in communication with the mobile data communications software to receive the law enforcement data therefrom.
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Abstract
An apparatus for communicating with law enforcement during vehicle travel and associated methods are provided. The apparatus preferably includes a department server in communication with a vehicle computer and also in communication with a plurality of law enforcement databases. The vehicle computer includes mobile data communications software and officer communications enhancing software. The officer communications enhancing software preferably includes one or more of an audio communicator to transmit enhanced audio law enforcement data received from the mobile data communications software to the officer, an incident form completing enhancer to generate and populate incident forms, and a quick mapper to quickly generate and display a site overview map such as a top plan street view to an officer.
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17 Claims
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1. Officer communications enhancing software stored on a vehicle computer having an officer display connected thereto and in communication with mobile data communications software stored on the vehicle computer to enhance officer communication with the department server through the vehicle computer, the officer communications enhancing software comprising:
a form completing enhancer to generate and populate a plurality of preselected incident forms on an officer display attached to the vehicle computer, the form completing enhancer including at least one form database including a plurality of preselected incident forms, a form display graphical user interface in communication with the form database to graphically display one of the preselected incident forms to the officer, and a form enhancing populator in communication with the mobile data communications software to receive the law enforcement data therefrom. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. Officer communications enhancing software stored on a vehicle computer having an officer display connected thereto and in communication with mobile data communications software stored on the vehicle computer to enhance officer communication with a law enforcement department server through the vehicle computer, the office communications enhancing software comprising:
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a quick mapper responsive to officer call dispatch—
data including incident location received from the mobile data communications software to quickly generate and display a top plan street view map of the incident location, the quick mapper including a map database having a plurality of maps stored therein, a map applicator in communication with the map database to generate a map responsive to the incident location data, and a map applicator initiator in communication with the map applicator and the mobile data communications software to receive the officer call dispatch data and to communicate the incident location to the map applicator to thereby generate the top plan street view map of the incident location; and
the vehicle computer further being positioned in communication with at least one audio speaker, and the officer communications enhancing software further comprising an audio communicator positioned to transmit enhanced audio law enforcement data received from the mobile data communications software to the officer through the at least one audio speaker, the enhanced audio law enforcement data including a plurality of preselected and prerecorded audio messages responsive to the law enforcement data received from the mobile data communications software. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A method of enhancing communication with a law enforcement officer positioned in a law enforcement vehicle, the method comprising:
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detecting law enforcement data received from a law enforcement database in communication with the vehicle;
parsing the detected law enforcement data for preselected data fields; and
populating preselected data fields in a incident form on the vehicle computer with the preselected data. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A method of enhancing communication with a law enforcement officer positioned in a law enforcement vehicle, the vehicle having a vehicle computer positioned therein and in communication with a department server, the method comprising:
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detecting incident location data received in a dispatch transmission to the vehicle computer from the department server;
generating a map of an incident location 10 responsive to the incident location data; and
displaying the map responsive to an officer request for map data. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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