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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1994
Farhad Barzegar, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Irwin Gerszberg, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Martin J McGowan, III, Cranford, NJ (US);
Robert E Schroeder, Morris, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
An information system for automatically providing mobile vehicles with information related to their geographical location and to provide routing control information downloaded from a broadcasting or directed cellular call source includes a GPS receiver and associated data storage unit. A cellular packet data receiver is included to receive data with location markers from a transmission source. The data from the data storage unit and the received data with location markers is coupled to a controller module which includes stored program controls to select data relevant to the present geographical location and to provide centralized alerts and local readout in the mobile vehicle of this information.