Patent ID: 9706361
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method to determine a driver of a vehicle having a left hand steering wheel, the method comprising: providing a first cell phone with a first transceiver to a first user; providing a second cell phone with a second transceiver to a second user; emitting a first multidirectional signal having four defined quadrants within a predetermined distance with the first cell phone via the first transceiver; emitting a second multidirectional signal having four defined quadrants within a predetermined distance with the second cell phone via the second transceiver; assigning a reference indicator to each quadrant of the first multidirectional signal and each quadrant of the second multidirectional signal; determining which quadrants of the first multidirectional signal overlap with which quadrants of the second multidirectional signal; determining which reference indicator is associated with a top left quadrant of the first multidirectional signal; determining which reference indicator is associated with a top left quadrant of the second multidirectional signal; and determining a driver based upon which top left quadrant does not overlap with any other quadrant.