Patent ID: 11956854
Assignee: nan
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of assisting a human or machine vehicle operator and/or a human vehicle occupant to wirelessly communicate with a facility via a vehicle radio, the method comprising the steps of:
a) retrieving current vehicle location information from a vehicle location device;
b) accessing radio device records which are stored in one or more locations, the stored radio device records including but not limited to the frequency and one or more of an associated name, facility, area and/or location corresponding to a radio device of a type which the vehicle radio can communicate with;
c) in response to the vehicle current location information and the radio device records, automatically selecting at least a first radio device frequency for which the corresponding facility, area or location is likely within range and the facility is appropriate to communicate with based on the vehicle location;
d) automatically causing the selected first radio device frequency and/or the name of the corresponding radio device to be made available for use by at least the vehicle operator.