GPS-internet linkage

• US 7,797,448 B1
• Filed: 10/28/2000
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Blackbird Tech LLC
• Original Assignee: Henry E. Millson, Jr.
• Inventors: Szoke, Ernest G
• Primary Examiner(s): Won, Michael
• Application Number:
  US09/699,192
• Time in Patent Office: 3,608 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205, 709/217, 709/249, 709/245, 709/202, 709/225, 709/228, 709/237, 455/428, 455/456, 455/457, 455/456.1, 701/207, 701/208, 701/209, 701/213, 701/214, 701/216
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0072 Transmission between mobile stations, e.g. anti-collision systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An integrated system comprising the Global Positioning System and the Internet wherein the integrated system can identify the precise geographical location of both sender and receiver communicating computer terminals.

Claims

1. An integrated system comprising the Global Positioning System, the Internet, a sending computer terminal, and a receiving computer terminal, wherein said computer terminals are each positioned with a GPS unit so that the Global Positioning System identifies the global locations of both the sending computer terminal and the receiving computer terminal, and wherein the computer terminals communicate with each other over the Internet.

2. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the integration is achieved by a direct integration of Global Positioning System units into the computer terminals.

3. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the system is coupled directly into a telephone network or into a digital communication system utilizing other than a telephone network.

4. The integrated system of claim 1 that creates localized computer networks based on geographic proximity.

5. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the Global Positioning System comprises at least one global positioning communication satellite.

6. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the system provides automatic identification of the receiving computer terminal for the sending computer terminal and automatic identification of the sending computer terminal for the receiving computer terminal.

7. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the integration is achieved electronically.

8. A method for identifying the global location of both an originating computer terminal and a receiving computer terminal communicating on the Internet wherein said method uses the integrated system of claim 1.

9. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the system anchors every digital message communicated between the sending computer terminal and the receiving computer terminal over the Internet in both time and space.

10. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the system can refuse transmissions that do not have a location identifier.

11. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the system consists essentially of the Global Positioning System, the Internet, a sending computer terminal, a receiving computer terminal, and GPS units positioned with each computer terminal.

12. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein the system is used for business-to-business E-commerce communications and confirms the authenticity of communications of business-to-business E-commerce between fixed and known business locations.

13. An integrated system comprising the Global Positioning System, the Internet, and two computer terminals positioned at different locations, wherein each computer terminal is positioned with a GPS unit so that each computer terminal can identify the global location of the other computer terminal, and wherein the computer terminals communicate with each other over the Internet.