Patent ID: 7689232

Claim:
A method of providing a cellular phone communication network for designated participating users, each having a similarly equipped cellular phone that includes a CPU, GPS navigational system and a touch screen display having one or more soft switches and associated software to affect the cell phone operation to enable the user's cell phone to perform various functions by hooking network participant's symbols, comprising the steps of: a) exchanging position and status information from one user among all of the other users equipped with cellular phone/PDA/GPS system and its associated software; b1) entering of other entities of interest into the cellular phone CPU and assigning the other entities of interest a category; b2) generating the latitude and longitude of the entities of interest along with their categories being automatically sent on the communications network; c) generating rapid call initiation to one or more locations whose phone number is available in a geographical referenced database using the touch screen; d) generating rapid call initiation to the users of the cellular phone/PDA/GPS network system using the touch screen; e) generating rapidly sent text messages, photographs, and video to another cellular phone using the touch screen; f) providing rapid conference calling multiple phones that are contained within the geographical referenced data base; g) initiating remote control from one cellular phone/PDA/GPS system to any of the other cellular phone/PDA/GPS system phones, including the ability to control remote cellular phones to make verbal announcements, display images, place return calls, place calls to another phone number, vibrate, change sound intensity and process and display pre-stored data, images and video; h) activating a soft switch and the software accessed by said soft switch that forwards a voice call to another phone by hooking it; i) activating a soft switch and the software accessed by said soft switch that forwards text messages, photographs and video by hooking one or more symbols representing remote cellular phone devices or one soft switch to call all on the network; and j) activating a soft switch and the software accessed by said soft switch that adds another party to an existing phone call by hooking the displayed remote phone symbol of the other party.