Patent ID: 8538393
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G01S,G06F,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating among a group of participants/designated users each having a cell phone including a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or smart PDA/Personal Computing (PC) device, a touch screen display, and associated Global Positioning System (GPS) and Advanced Communication Software (ACS) allowing each of said cellular phone users to exchange data through a server for establishing a network of participants to exchange or display identity, location, status, said method including establishing a private ad hoc temporary digital network that includes an ad hoc event name for rapidly coordinating activities that eliminates the need for pre-entry data to a web or identifying others by name, E mail address or phone number comprising the steps of: sending a message from a first user cell phone PDA/PC to the Server by entering the Server's Internet Protocol (IP) address and an ad hoc event name and a password onto the Server identifying said first user; the Server storing the first user's IP address and the first user's ad hoc event name and a password onto the Server's database; notifying the first user that the cell phone PDA/PC of the first user is connected to the Server; reporting the first user's cell phone PDA/PC GPS location and status information including cell strength and GPS and battery status to the Server; recognizing at the Server other users' cell phone PDA/PC devices that sign on the Server with the same ad hoc event name and password and storing each of the other users' cell phone PDA/PC's IP addresses; passing cell phone users' location and status, entered tracks, geo-referenced white boards and chat information between all the ad hoc network users' cell phone PDA/PC devices who are signed on through the Server; transmitting received information that a particular cell phone ad hoc event user has addressed to another cell phone ad hoc event user by entering the other cell phone users' names or selecting other users' symbol; automatically establishing voice communications between all cell phone participants in the ad hoc event name digital network including Push To Talk (PTT) cellular phones that are on the same network; connecting each user PDA cell phone to the user's radio for controlling the user's radio from the user's PDA cell phone; automatically dropping cell phones from the ad hoc digital network when a cell phone participant sends a drop me message or does not report within a specified, but adjustable time period; and commanding all PTT cell phone users on the ad hoc network to cause their radios to shift to a specific PTT radio channel or frequency through the server.