Method for enabling communications dependent on user location, user-specified location or orientation

A system and method for enabling communications in a wireless communications network (10) on the basis of user-specified locations or orientations, having particular utility to vehicle-based communications. Users of the network broadcast their locations and orientations (headings) to a central serve...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser:	NEWELL MICHAEL A.,D. AVELLO ROBERT F.,DAVIS SCOTTB.,GRIVAS NICK J.,MEYERHOFF JEROME D.,VAN BOSCH JAMES A.,SOKOLA RAYMOND L
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	chi ; eng
Schlagworte:	ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS MEASURING MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS NAVIGATION PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY PHYSICS SURVEYING TESTING TRANSMISSION WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
Online-Zugang:	Volltext bestellen
Tags:	Tag hinzufügen Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!

Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:	A system and method for enabling communications in a wireless communications network (10) on the basis of user-specified locations or orientations, having particular utility to vehicle-based communications. Users of the network broadcast their locations and orientations (headings) to a central server (24). Using his user interface (51), a user can specify either a location or a heading and transmit the same to the server (24). The server (24) will query other system users to determine which correspond to the specified locations or orientations, and the requesting user is then permitted to contact such other users. With such functionality, a given user can, for example, be enabled to communicate with other users at or near his current location, at or near some specified distant location, or that are traveling in the same direction as the user.