Method of providing a cellular phone/PDA communication system
First Claim
1. A method of expediting a cellular phone voice call over a cellular phone telephone network using a PDA cellular phone that includes soft switches and a touch screen visual display for calling a fixed location including individually but not limited to a restaurant, police station, and fire station having a conventional telephone, displayed symbolically on a geographical map on said display, said fixed location having a telephone and said fixed location being displayed on said geographical map on the cell phone touch screen display comprising:
- displaying on a touch screen a geographical area on a map that includes at least one fixed location at its longitude and latitude on said map on the PDA cellular phone with a database and application program for displaying a selected geographical area on a map or chart on the touch screen display that includes at least one fixed location at its latitude and longitude on said map or chart;
providing the cellular phone with a database containing the telephone number of said fixed location displayed on said geographical map or chart;
initiating a voice call using the PDA cellular phone with a database and an application program to said fixed location upon touching the touch screen display including the geographical area on the map at the equivalent latitude and longitude location of said fixed location;
retrieving the stored telephone number of said fixed location upon initiating said telephone call by touching said fixed location on said display;
entering a new entity on the display geo-reference map including an observed object at a specific geographical location by touching the appropriate location on the map display screen;
selecting a soft switch to indicate the type of entity observed causing a symbol to appear on the map screen;
executing a call switch to turn on said cellular phone internal software to begin calling said fixed location;
displaying a call in progress symbol on said touch screen display when said telephone call to said fixed location is in progress; and
displaying a second different symbol on said touch screen display indicating that the telephone call to said fixed location has been established.
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Abstract
A cellular, PDA communication device and communication system for allowing a plurality of cellular phone users to monitor each others'"'"' locations and status, to initiate cellular phone calls by touching a symbol on the touch screen display with a stylus which can also include point to call conferencing calling. Each participant'"'"'s cellular phone PDA device includes GPS navigation receiver with application software for point to call cellular phone initiation to participants and geographical entities including vehicles, persons or events, conference calls and video transfers. The method and system also includes automatic shifting from GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO to SMS when any of the cellular phones in the communication network is in the voice mode and in use and for automatic shifting back to GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO upon completion of the voice phone call. In addition, using the system, a full transfer of photographs, video clips and high speed data can be used between any cellular phones regardless of who the cellular phone vendors or cellular phone companies are and in either CDMA, GSM, WiFi or a combination of the two.
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7 Claims
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1. A method of expediting a cellular phone voice call over a cellular phone telephone network using a PDA cellular phone that includes soft switches and a touch screen visual display for calling a fixed location including individually but not limited to a restaurant, police station, and fire station having a conventional telephone, displayed symbolically on a geographical map on said display, said fixed location having a telephone and said fixed location being displayed on said geographical map on the cell phone touch screen display comprising:
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displaying on a touch screen a geographical area on a map that includes at least one fixed location at its longitude and latitude on said map on the PDA cellular phone with a database and application program for displaying a selected geographical area on a map or chart on the touch screen display that includes at least one fixed location at its latitude and longitude on said map or chart; providing the cellular phone with a database containing the telephone number of said fixed location displayed on said geographical map or chart; initiating a voice call using the PDA cellular phone with a database and an application program to said fixed location upon touching the touch screen display including the geographical area on the map at the equivalent latitude and longitude location of said fixed location; retrieving the stored telephone number of said fixed location upon initiating said telephone call by touching said fixed location on said display; entering a new entity on the display geo-reference map including an observed object at a specific geographical location by touching the appropriate location on the map display screen; selecting a soft switch to indicate the type of entity observed causing a symbol to appear on the map screen; executing a call switch to turn on said cellular phone internal software to begin calling said fixed location; displaying a call in progress symbol on said touch screen display when said telephone call to said fixed location is in progress; and displaying a second different symbol on said touch screen display indicating that the telephone call to said fixed location has been established. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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