Patent ID: 9247524
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G01S,G08G,H04B,H04M,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a first personal communications device (PCD) associated with a first user, and a second PCD associated with a second user, each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data; a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data; one or more condition reporting devices that are configured to detect a road condition at a location and to send traffic speed data to a computer network; the first PCD configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the display and to show the position of the first PCD as a first icon on the map, the first PCD configured to serve as a mobile condition reporting device and to send detected road condition data to a central computer system; and the first PCD further configured to receive GPS encoded location data regarding the second PCD and to show the position of the second PCD as a second icon on the map; wherein the first PCD display is configured so that when the map is shown on the display, an interface to communications with the second user is provided through the touch screen input device at touch points on the display; wherein the first PCD display is configured to have a sub-menu, and the interface to communications with the second user can be actuated through touch points in the sub-menu; and wherein each PCD comprises a digital camera configured to apply a GPS location stamp on a digitized image captured by the PCD digital camera, and each PCD is configured to select a road condition, wherein the detected road condition data comprises a digitized image with the GPS location stamp and a tag based on the selected road condition.