Patent ID: 7205890

Claim:
A locator system comprising: an originating device having an originating device address, the originating device comprising: a means for entering a natural language request message; a transceiver adapted to send the natural language request message to a server and the transceiver configured to receive a natural language response message from the server; and a display for displaying the natural language response message; the server comprising: a means for receiving the natural language request message from the originating device and receiving the originating device address of the originating device; a means to translate the originating device address and the natural language request message into a locator device address and an encoded request; a means for sending the encoded request to a locator device at the locator device address; a means for receiving an encoded response from the locator device and for receiving the locator device address; a means for translating the encoded response into the natural language response message; and a means to send the natural language response message to the originating device at the originating device address; the locator device comprising: a location receiver for measuring an approximate location of the locator device; a second transceiver adapted to receive the encoded request from the server and adapted to transmit the encoded response to the server; and a controller connected to the location receiver and the second transceiver, the controller configured to receive the encoded request from the second transceiver, read location information from the location receiver, generate the encoded response and send the encoded response to server through the transceiver.