Patent ID: 8258979

Claim:
An emergency vehicle alarm system, comprising: means for providing an emergency vehicle alert as a telematics service deliverable to a mobile vehicle; means for determining a service fee for the emergency vehicle alert service; means for billing the user according to the service fee-determining step; means for debiting the user's account according to the billing step; means for delivering the emergency vehicle alert service to the mobile vehicle, wherein when an emergency vehicle is in proximity to the mobile vehicle, an alarm is generated by the emergency vehicle alert service so that the occupants of the mobile vehicle are warned that the emergency vehicle is nearby; means for sending an emergency alert from a priority vehicle to the mobile vehicle when said priority vehicle is in proximity to the mobile vehicle; means for receiving the emergency alert in the mobile vehicle; means for actuating said alarm in the mobile vehicle based on reception of the emergency alert from the priority vehicle; means for silencing a program playing on a sound system of the mobile vehicle so that the occupants' attention is drawn solely to the emergency alarm presented inside the mobile vehicle; and means for determining and displaying to occupants of the mobile vehicle relative positioning of the priority vehicle with respect to the mobile vehicle.