Patent ID: 6392565
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: B60R,B60W,G08B

Abstract:
A computerized system for determining the theft of a vehicle wherein a system subscriber maintains a remote computer terminal, said system comprising:a web host connected to a wide area web network, said web host having a computer readable medium; a location unit for being carried by the vehicle for calculating the location of the vehicle at any given time and transmitting a low power digital location data packet having location data, wherein the data packet includes only protocol data, a personal code number as an identifier, and GPS data, including latitude and longitude; and a computer program having instructions embodied in computer readable code residing on said web host for receiving a tracking request from the subscriber, transmitting a tracking call to said location unit, receiving back the low power digital location data packet having location data from said location unit representing the current position of the vehicle automatically in response to said tracking request, and transmitting the location data regarding the current position of the vehicle to said subscriber whereby the location of the automobile is displayed at the subscriber's terminal.