Patent ID: 8624771

Claim:
A police activity warning system, comprising: (a) a police activity radar detector, comprising: a receiver for detecting electromagnetic signals generated in the context of police activity, a global positioning receiver operable to provide coordinates for a first position; a modem operable to wirelessly transmit at least the coordinates of the first position and additional data to a server external to the detector; at least one hardware based processor coupled to the global positioning receiver and coupled to the modem; the processor operable to generate an alert of detection of electromagnetic signals by said detector, and in response thereto obtain from a user input upon the nature of the alert, obtain the coordinates of the first position from the global position receiver, and control the modem to wirelessly transmit at least the coordinates obtained from the global positioning receiver and user input on the alert to the server that is external to the detector; and the processor of the detector operable to control the modem to wirelessly receive at least coordinates of a second position from the server, and wherein the processor is operable to determine whether a warning should be issued in response to at least the received coordinates for the second position; and (b) the server external to the detector, comprising: at least one hardware based processor operable to transmit at least coordinates for the second position to the modem of the detector; and a database storing at least the coordinates of the second position.