Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-21
2005-06-21
Black, Thomas G. (Department: 3663)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
C701S223000, C342S457000, C342S419000, C340S005640, C340S989000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06909964
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle locating system includes a first transmitter within the vehicle, the first transmitter is configured to transmit a location signal; and a key fob including: a receiver, a direction indicator, and wherein the direction indicator is configured to point towards the first transmitter in response to receipt of the location signal by the receiver. In another embodiment, the vehicle locating system includes a first cellular telephone within the vehicle; a first GPS receiver within the vehicle and in operable communication with the first cellular telephone, the first GPS receiver is configured to determine a location of the vehicle; a hand-held device including: a direction indicator, a second cellular telephone, and a second GPS receiver in operable communication with the second cellular telephone, the second GPS receiver is configured to determine a location of the hand-held device; and wherein the first GPS receiver provides the location of the vehicle to the first cellular telephone, and the direction indicator is configured to point in a direction of the vehicle in response to a comparison of the location of the vehicle and the location of the hand-held device.
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Where is it? By Tim Moran, Automotive News, Dec. 3, 2001.
Armstrong Ray G.
Kell Curtis N.
Perisho, Jr. Robert A.
Delphi Technologies Inc.
Mancho Ronnie
Smith Michael D.
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