Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Daniel A Hanevich

Walter A Dorfstatter

Wylie R Burt

Timothy Robert Nixon

Mark Gibb

Mark J Timm

Kelley J Kettenbeil

An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a communications system including a vehicle embedded cellular phone subsystem for receiving and sending communications and a wireless device subsystem including a base station and a wireless device. The base station is coupled to the vehicle embedded cellular phone subsystem for receiving incoming cellular communications at the wireless device and sending communications from the wireless device to the vehicle embedded cellular phone subsystem.

Wireless device for use with a vehicle embedded phone

The invention provides a method of searching for features of interest in proximity to a mobile vehicle. A vehicle location coordinate and a vehicle proximity parameter are provided to a vehicle proximity search application. The application generates a vehicle proximity area for the mobile vehicle based on the mobile vehicle location coordinate and the vehicle proximity parameter. The application may access a database containing features of interest. A feature or element of interest that has any portion of it in the vehicle proximity area is selected. The distance from each feature of interest to the mobile vehicle location is calculated.

Method and system for vehicle proximity searching

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Troy, MI, United States of America

Daniel A Hanevich