Patent ID: 6518881
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: G08G,H04W

Abstract:
A comprehensive mobile digital multimedia communications system for providing digital communications support between a mobile unit, the mobile unit including peripheral support equipment, and a remote base/dispatcher or another remote mobile unit, the system adapted for transmitting audio, video, textual and graphic data to and from the mobile unit and for receiving audio, video and textual data from the base or other remote mobile unit, the system comprising:a. a digital processing control module for receiving input data from the mobile unit and/or the remote base unit and processing the input data; b. a multimedia output device including a multifunction display and a multifunction printer associated with the control module for producing the input data transmitted from the base unit to the control module in a useable form at the mobile unit; c. a multifunction input device associated with the control module for generating local input data for use at the control module and for transmission to the base unit; d. an output transmitter device for transmitting the local input data to the remote unit; e. a receiver for accepting input data from the remote unit and inputting it into the control module; and f. a peripheral control device for operating said peripheral support equipment in response to input from the remote unit and the control module whether input at the multifunction input device or preprogrammed in the control module.