Wireless fleet communications system for providing separable communications services
First Claim
1. A method for providing business message and personal message communications service to a fleet of vehicles in communication with a central station, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a message by a central station, said message transmitted by a mobile communication terminal, said message having a message type field comprising either a business type or a personal type;
processing said message when said message type field comprises said business type; and
forwarding said message to a message management center when said message type field comprises said personal type.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing personal and business mobile wireless communications service is described. A message is received having a message type. Message separability and cost allocation is performed based on the message type. The message is processed when the message is a fleet message, and the message is forwarded to a message management center when the message is a personal message. Once the message is forwarded, it is deleted. In one embodiment of the invention, the messages are transmitted via a wireless satellite link between a mobile communications terminal and a network management system. A fleet computer receives the messages from the network management system and, after determining whether they are personal or fleet messages, processes them accordingly.
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1. A method for providing business message and personal message communications service to a fleet of vehicles in communication with a central station, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a message by a central station, said message transmitted by a mobile communication terminal, said message having a message type field comprising either a business type or a personal type; processing said message when said message type field comprises said business type; and forwarding said message to a message management center when said message type field comprises said personal type. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A wireless fleet communications system comprising:
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a mobile communication terminal for transmitting a message to a central station, said message having a message type field, said message type field comprising either a business type or a personal type, over a wireless link to a central station; and a fleet computer for forwarding said message to a message management center when said message type field comprises said personal type and for processing said message when said message type field comprises said business type. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A wireless fleet communications system comprising:
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a mobile communication terminal for transmitting a message to a central station, said message having a message type field, said message type field comprising either a business type or a personal type, over a wireless link; and a network management center for receiving said message, and for forwarding said message to a message management center when said message type field comprises said personal type, and to a fleet computer when said message type field comprises said business type. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for providing business message and personal message communications service to a fleet of vehicles in communication with a central station, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a message; determining whether said received message comprises a business type message or a personal type message; processing said received message in a first manner if said received message comprises said business type message; and processing said received message in a second manner if said received message comprises said personal type message. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. An apparatus for providing business message and personal message communications service to a fleet of vehicles in communication with a central station, comprising:
a computer for receiving a message and for determining whether said message comprises a business type message or a personal type message;
said computer further for processing said business type message in a first manner and for processing said personal type message in a second manner wherein said message comprises a message type field that identifies whether said message comprises said business type message or said personal type message.- View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 76)
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51. An apparatus for providing business message and personal message communications service to a fleet of vehicles in communication with a central station, comprising:
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means for receiving a message; means for determining whether said received message comprises a business type message or a personal type message; and means for processing said business type message in a first manner and means for processing said personal type message in a second manner. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 77, 78)
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63. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions for providing business message and personal message communications service to a fleet of vehicles in communication with a central station that when executed, performs the following method:
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receiving a message; determining whether said message comprises a business type message or a personal type message; processing said received message in a first manner if said received message comprises said business type message; and processing said received message in a second manner if said received message comprises said personal type message. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79, 80)
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