Personal communication system to send and receive voice data positioning information

• US 9,297,657 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2014
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silver State Intellectual Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Silver State Intellectual Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Obradovich, Michael L., Dinkel, John, Kent, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Dalena
• Application Number:
  US14/204,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 701/400, 701/408, 701/409, 340/990, 340/995.1, 340/988, 342/357.01, 342/357.13, 342/386, 455/457, 455/456.1, 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 10 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 locating and map sharing system comprising:

a first personal digital communicator, comprising;

a display;

a receiver for receiving GPS signals and other digital data;

a transceiver for transmitting digital data;

a modem coupled to the transceiver and to a digital processor;

the digital processor configured to determine the location of the personal digital communicator from received GPS signals;

a first operating system for operating the digital processor; and

an application module configured to convert a plurality of common data structures into a format readable by the first operating system, the application module configured to analyze digital data received from a second personal digital communicator that comprises a second operating system incompatible with the first operating system, the application module configured to analyze the digital data received from the second personal digital communicator to identify whether the digital data received from the second personal digital communicator comprises one or more of the plurality of common data structures and to convert identified common data structures within the digital data into the format readable by the first operating system;

the receiver configured to receive map data from a third party provider, the map data being configured in one of the plurality of common data structures, the application module being configured to convert the map data to the format readable by the first operating system;

the digital processor configured to send a signal to the display so that the display simultaneously shows the location of the personal digital communicator in view of the map data from the third party provider and a graphic representation of at least a portion of the digital data received from the second personal digital communicator.

2. A system as in claim 1, wherein the digital data from the second personal digital communicator comprises location data.

3. A system as in claim 1, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit the location of the first personal digital communicator.

4. A system as in claim 3, wherein the first personal digital communicator is configured so that the application module converts location data into one or more of the plurality of common data structures before the transceiver transmits the location of the first personal digital communicator.

5. A system as in claim 4, wherein the application module is configured to convert common data structures identified in a query received by the receiver into the format readable by the first operating system, the first operating system is configured to identify responsive digital data in a memory of the first digital communicator, and the application module is configured to convert the responsive digital data into one or more of the plurality of common data structures so that the transceiver transmits the converted responsive digital data.

6. A method for sharing and displaying data, comprising:

a first portable communication device receiving GPS signals and determining its location based on the received GPS signals, the first portable communication device having a first operating system;

the first portable communication device receiving location data from a second personal communication device, the second personal communication device having a second operating system that is incompatible with the first operating system;

an application module of the first portable communication device analyzing the location data received from the second portable communication device to identify one or more standardized data structures;

the application module converting standardized data structures identified in the location data received from the second portable communication device into a converted location data that is configured in a format readable by the first operating system;

the first portable communication device determining the location of the second portable communication device by processing the converted location data;

the first portable communication device receiving a map data from a data provider, the map data configured in one or more of the standardized data structures;

the application module converting the standardized data structures of the map data into a converted map data that is configured in the format readable by the first operating system; and

the first portable communication device simultaneously displaying a map based on the converted map data, a graphic representation of the location of the first portable communication device on the map, and a graphic representation of the location of the second portable communication device on the map.

7. A method as in claim 6 additionally comprising the application module identifying whether the location data received from the second portable communication device is tagged to indicate that it includes standardized data structures.

8. A method as in claim 6, wherein the map data from the data provider is tagged to indicate that it includes standardized data structures.

9. A method as in claim 8 additionally comprising the first operating system identifying sendable digital data and the application module converting the sendable digital data into tagged sendable digital data, the tagged sendable digital data being configured in standardized data structures, and additionally comprising the first portable communication device transmitting the tagged sendable digital data.

10. A method as in claim 6 additionally comprising the first portable communication device transmitting a first query requesting a first information, a third party system reviewing the first query, the third party system transmitting a first broadcast query that is received and processed by the second portable communication device, and the second portable communication device transmitting a response to the first broadcast query.