Patent Document ID: 6141621
Application ID: 08691727

Base Claim:
1. A method of providing information regarding the location of a remotely located vehicle, comprising the steps: (A) generating an assistance request signal from the vehicle; (B) receiving the assistance request signal at a second location, remote from the vehicle; (C) determining a longitudinal placement of the vehicle; (D) determining a latitudinal placement of the vehicle; (E) determining a speed of travel of the vehicle; (F) determining a direction of travel of the vehicle; (G) generating a textual description of the vehicle location using the placement and travel information from steps (C) through (F) and providing the textual description at the second location in response to said step a), the textual description listing a street on which the vehicle is located and describing the vehicle location textually without a graphical map representation; and (H) at the second location, dispatching assistance to the vehicle location based upon the textual description.

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Claim 17:
17. The method of claim 1 wherein the textual description can be read to dispatch assistance and sufficiently indicate the location of the vehicle.