Patent ID: 6046687
Filing Date: 2000-04-04
Classification: B60R,B60W,G01S,G08G,H04W

Abstract:
Apparatus for reporting location of a vehicle in response to receipt of a location interrogation signal, the apparatus comprising:a location determination (LD) unit, carried in or on a vehicle, that receives and processes LD signals to determine location coordinates for the LD unit;a cellular phone carried in or on the vehicle and connected to receive LD unit present location information from the LD unit; anda call interceptor, connected to the cellphone, that monitors for receipt of an incoming call, that receives an incoming call intended for the cellular phone, that establishes a cellular phone connection for the incoming call signal and that monitors the connection to detect presence of a location interrogation signal in the incoming call, where (1) when a location interrogation signal is detected, the call interceptor transmits the LD location coordinates over the cellular phone connection without visually or audibly indicating that an incoming call has been received and (2) when a location interrogation signal is not detected, the call interceptor provides at least one of a visually perceptible and audibly perceptible indication that the incoming call signal has been received.