Patent ID: 8909264

Claim:
A service-requester/server system for receiving, processing and reporting geospatial sensor data from remote sources via a cellular network and a computer network, the service-requester/server system comprising: a server; a database; a Geographic Information System (GIS) application; the database including programs for: requesting and receiving geographic sensor data representative of geospatial-type information through an Internet connection and a cellular network connection transmitted by the remote sources through TCP/IP communication protocols or Short Message Service (SMS) communication protocols, where the cellular network includes a base station having a traffic channel and a control channel, where the control channel is used: for periodic network communication including call synchronization, setup, and handoff transmissions; and when the traffic channel reaches full capacity for SMS messages and additional SMS messages fail to be transmitted in the traffic channel, wherein the additional SMS messages are received on the control channel of the base station of the cellular network when the traffic channel is at the full capacity; processing the received geographic sensor data for storage in the database; and displaying the processed geographic sensor data through the GIS application to users via the cellular network or the computer network.