Personal communication system for communicating voice data positioning information

• US 6,529,824 B1
• Filed: 09/25/2000
• Issued: 03/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Silver State Intellectual Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: American Calcar, Inc.
• Inventors: Obradovich, Michael L., Kent, Michael, Dinkel, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuchlinski, Jr.; William A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PIPALA, EDWARD J
• Application Number:
  US09/669,527
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: 701/207,208,209,213,300 340/944,945,961,971,979,988,989,990,995,286.01,286.06 342/352,357.1,457 455/433,437,438,439,440,459,461,456,457
• US Class Current: 701/208
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3889 Transmission of selected map data, e.g. depending on route
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3896 Transmission of map data from central databases
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services

Abstract

A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the PCD. The data providers respond to requests by using searching and sorting schemes to interrogate data bases and then automatically transmitting data responsive to the requests to the requesting PCD.

Claims

1. A location tagged information storage and transceiver system comprising:

a transceiver, the transceiver receiving digital data from a personal digital communication device and transmitting digital data to the personal digital communication device;

a computer processor;

computer memory for storing map data for geographic areas and non-map data, with the non-map data in linked data fields concerning specific locations within the geographic areas for which map data is available, the non-map data tagged to the map data;

a sorting application module executed by the computer processor, the sorting application module responsive to requests from the personal digital communication device, the requests being for a specified maximum number of specified non-map data concerning specified geographic areas, the sorting application module searching the computer memory by data fields for the specified non-map data and providing the specified non-map data and map data linked to the specified non-map data to the transceiver for transmission to the personal digital communication device.

2. The location tagged information storage and transceiver system of claim 1 further comprising a linking and tagging module executed by the processor for linking data pertaining to a specific geographic location in linked data fields and tagging the linked data fields with a marker indicative of geographic location.

3. The location tagged information storage and transceiver system of claim 1 wherein the specified non-map data includes restaurant listings.

4. The location tagged information storage and transceiver system of claim 1 wherein the specified non-map data includes hours of operation.

5. The location tagged information storage and transceiver system of claim 1 wherein the specified non-map data includes traffic reports.

6. The location tagged information storage and transceiver system of claim 1 wherein the specified non-map data includes weather reports.

7. The location tagged information storage and transceiver system of claim 1 wherein the specified non-map data includes yellow page entries.

8. A method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information comprising:

storing map data for geographic areas and non-map data, with the non-map data in linked data fields concerning specific locations within the geographic areas;

receiving a request from a user for a specified maximum number of listings of non-map data;

searching the map data and the non-map data to obtain specific map data and non-map data in response to the request; and

automatically transmitting the specific map data and up to the maximum number of listings of non-map data to the user.

9. The method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information of claim 8 wherein the non-map data includes restaurant listings.

10. The method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information of claim 8 wherein the non-map data includes hours of operation.

11. The method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information of claim 8 wherein the non-map data includes traffic reports.

12. The method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information of claim 8 wherein the non-map data includes weather reports.

13. The method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information of claim 8 wherein the non-map data includes yellow page entries.

14. The method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information of claim 8 wherein the map data includes latitude and longitude data.

15. The method for storing and transmitting geo-relevant information of claim 8 wherein the request includes information indicating a specified manner of transmission to the user of the specific map data and non-map data.