Patent ID: 6799052
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: H04B,H04K,H04W

Abstract:
A monitoring and control system for cellular telephone transmission for inhibiting transmissions with a cell phone in a on-the-highway location, said cell phone communicating with a cell tower including a base station having a communications server, said cell phone having a main microprocessor, an operator touch pad connected to input to said main microprocessor, a protocol encoder/decoder circuit connected to said main processor, a modem connected to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit, and a transceiver connected to said modem, comprising:a high definition GPS location receiver circuit connected to receive satellite GPS information through said cell phone antenna, and connected to said main processor for providing GPS location data of said cell phone to said main processor; a hands-free adaptor (HFA) connected to input to said main processor, said input providing operation signals to said main processor; a cell unit GPS location data line from said main processor to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit; a HFA presence bit line from said main process to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit, said bit being â€œhighâ€  when said hands-free adaptor is connected and operational; a transmission data line from said main processor to said protocol encoder/decoder circuit; wherein said encoder/decoder formats the request for transmission call to a cell tower, said request including cell phone GPS location data and a HFA presence indicator bit; and detection software resident in the communications server for said cell tower being requested for transmission, said software interrogating said cell phone transmission request, including the reading of said cell phone GPS location information and said cell phone HFA bit information, said software inhibiting further transmission with said cell phone when said cell phone is at an on-the-highway location without HFA presence.