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`This invention relates generally to on integrated communications system using a
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`plurality of cellulor/PDA/GPS phones for the management of a group of people through the
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`use of a communications net and, specifically, to provide each user with a
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`The purpose of a communications system is to transmit information bearing
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`some distance away. A communications system is generally comprised of three basic
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`information, computer information transmission and receipt of data.
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`Digital Smart Message Service (SMS) and TCP/IP messages con be transmitted
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`network. One implementation of these GPS location reporting cellular systems is for the data
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`to go to a remote central site where the information is displayed for a person to monitor the
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`locations of the cellular units that hove the combined cellular GPS phone. Another
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`implementation permits the cellular phone users to also view the location of other GPS
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`equipped units. A drawback of the current implementation is that these systems ore either all
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`on or all off. There is no way to selectively activate participants or to stop the participants
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`from participating in the network or for participants to set their reporting intervals that is
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`based on time or distance traveled. The use of the current combined cellular phone/PDA
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`technology has drawbacks when calling. When on operator makes a cellular phone call
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`using the PDA to display a mop (that also may depict geo-referenced businesses, homes
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`and other facilities' locations and phone numbers), the cellular phone/PDA operator is
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`required to display the numeric phone number by touching the display screen at the correct
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`location of that entity on the mop, memorize the numeric phone number, and select a
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`different display to physically enter the phone number to make the call and then, if desired,
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`go bock to the mop display. Needless to soy, this is a cumbersome process. Sending a text
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`message or on email to a location, business, home or facility that appears on a PDA mop
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`display or to another cellular phone con also be a cumbersome process as the PDA
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`operator has to find the phone number or email address of the location on the mop display,
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`memorize the phone number or email address, then go to a different display to enter a text
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`message, enter the text message, send the text message and then shift bock to the mop
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`display program. Furthermore, for a phone to send data concerning a new entity of interest,
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`not currently on the geo-referenced mop display (cor, person, tonk, occident, or other
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`entity), the operator must type in the information and the latitude and longitude of the new
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`entity of interest.
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`(Para 4)
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`U.S. Potent Application No. 2003/0139150 published July 24,2003 shows a
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`portable navigation and communication system. In one embodiment, the system combines
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`within a single enclosure a GPS satellite positioning unit, mobile telephony using cellular
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`phone technology and personal computing capable of wired or wireless internet or intronet
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`access using a standard operating system. The purpose of this invention is to provide
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`portable navigation for on individual. However, to operate the device, one still needs to
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`utilize a keypad with the telephone functions. U.S. Potent Application No. 2003/0139150
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`described a wireless communication system operating the PDA in a conventional manner.
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`There is no provision for displaying the location of other similarly equipped systems. There is
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`no provision to cause other similarly equipped cellular phone/PDA users to transmit their
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`locations. There is no provision for entering other entities of interest by touching the display
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`screen at their locations on a mop. There is no provision for making a telephone call by
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`touching the display screen at a net participant's symbol or entered facility (police station,
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`fire station, etc.) symbol to initiate automatically the telephone call to that user or by
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`touching multiple symbols to make conference calls. There is no provision for sending text
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`messages, photographs or videos by touching the net porticipont(s)' symbol(s) on the
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`display screen to automatically send text messages, photographs or videos to that
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`participant or participants. There is no provision to go to a facility's web site or to
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`automatically fill in a facility's E-mail address. There is no description or disclosure of a
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`procedure to cause digital messages to be sent to a remote cellular phone that would
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`cause the cellular phone to make verbal announcements, increase sound intensity, vibrate
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`or to call bock or to call another phone number. There is no description of the uses of
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`layered soft switches which confine the switches to a particular vicinity of the PDA' s display
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`screen.
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`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
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`(Para 5)
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`A plurality of cellular phone/WiFi/PDA/GPS devices each having application
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`software and databases to provide a communication network having: a) the ability to
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`selectively poll each of the other PDA/GPS phone devices with each participant to start
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`reporting its position and status information directly to all or selected users equipped with the
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`some cellular phone/PDA communicotion/GPS devices in the communications net so that
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`each of the devices that the data is transmitted to is provided a display of the location,
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`status and other information of the other users; b) the ability of each of the cellular
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`phone/PDA devices to report to another device at on operator selected time rote or at a
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`rote based on distance traveled; c) the ability to exchange other entities' of interest
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`information and to assign these entities a category (cor, person, tonk, occident, or other
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`event) by touching the display screen at the entity's location on the displayed mop, and
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`selecting the appropriate category switch; d) the ability to make rapid voice and data call
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`initiation to any other participant in the cellular phone/WiFi net whose phone number is
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`available in a geo-referenced database including the cellular phone/PDA/GPS devices in a
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`communications net by touching the display screen at the appropriate mop location on the
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`PDA mop display and selecting a call switch; e) the ability to make rapid voice, and
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`conference call initiation to locations, businesses, homes and facilities whose phone numbers
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`ore available in a geo-referenced database including the cellular phone/PDA/GPS devices
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`in a communications net by touching the display screen at the appropriate other user
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`locations on the PDA mop display and selecting a conference call switch; f) the ability to
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`access a facility's URL or to automatically fill in their E-mail address; g) the ability to remotely
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`control from one cellular phone/PDA/GPS any of the other cellular phone/PDA/GPS systems
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`phones including the ability to control remote cellular phones to make verbal prerecorded
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`announcements, place return calls, place calls to another phone number, vibrate, execute
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`text to speech software, change sound intensity, remotely control software and functions
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`resident on the remote phone and process and display information by touching the display
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`screen at their location on the PDA display and selecting the appropriate switch; and g) the
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`ability to Ioyer a sufficient number of switches or buttons on the PDA display to perform the
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`above functions without overlaying the mop.
`(Para 6)
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`It is on object of this invention to provide on improved cellular telephone
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`communication network among a plurality of cellular phones for greatly decreasing the
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`operator actions necessary to establish calling and conferencing between each of the
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`cellular phones.
`(Para 7)
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`And yet another object of this invention is to enable each participant to
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`automatically exchange IP addresses using SMS or another digital message format.
`(Para 8)
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`And yet another object of this invention is to enable each participant in the
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`communications net to poll the other net participants to report or cease reporting their
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`locations, identity and status on the communication net.
`(Para 9)
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`And yet another object of this invention is to enable each participant in the
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`communications net to be able to easily transmit on entity of interest to the other
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`participants of the net by touching the display screen at the entity's location on the mop
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`and causing a symbol to be generated on the screen and entered and then entering the
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`entity's category information.
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`(Para 1 0)
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`And yet another object of this invention is to provide for initiating a cellular
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`phone telephone call to another phone by touching the other phone's symbol on the
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`screen of the cellular phone, which automatically activates the telephone call.
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`(Para 11)
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`And yet another object of this invention is to provide a cellular phone network
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`that provides for instant voice conference calling and the exchange of free text,
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`preformotted messages, photographs and video among a plurality of cellular phones by
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`touching the display screen of specific geo-referenced mop symbols for initiating the calls.
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`(Para 12)
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`And yet another object of this invention is to provide a cellular phone network
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`that provides for instant conference voice, text, photographs and video exchange by pre(cid:173)
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`establishing conferencing sub-nets and the subsequent activation of one of those sub-nets
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`to establish a conference call.
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`(Para 13)
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`But yet still another object of the invention is to provide for a communication
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`system that uses cellular telephone network that allows for photographs and video clips to
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`be transferred ("pushed") between and among the cellular phone users across multiple
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`cellular carriers, between smart phone and PCs.
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`(Para 14)
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`In accordance with these and other objects which will become apparent
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`hereinafter, the instant invention will now be described with particular reference to the
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`accompanying drawings.
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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`(Para 15)
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`Figure 1 shows a front plan view of a cellular phone/PDA having a touch screen
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`display in accordance with the present invention.
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`(Para 16)
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`Figure 2 shows a front plan view of the cellular phone/PDA of Figure 1 with a
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`different touch screen display.
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`(Para 17)
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`Figure 3 shows a flow chart of the operation of the present invention.
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`(Para 18)
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`Figure 4 shows a schematic diagram depicting GPS satellites, a plurality of
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`cellular phone/PDA units, the cellular phone company, the internet and the command
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`server that allows automatic shifting between high speed cellular internet communications
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`and voice communications.
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`(Para 19)
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`Figure 5 shows a process flow diagram of the transfer protocol in accordance
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`with the present invention.
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`(Para 20)
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`Figure 6 shows a flow diagram for automatic shifting between voice and high
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`speed cellular internet communications.
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`PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
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`(Para 21)
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`Referring now to the drawings and, in particular, Figure 1, the present invention is
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`shown generally at 10 that includes a small handheld cellular phone that includes a personal
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`digital assistant (PDA) and a global positioning system receiver (GPS) communications
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`device in housing 12 that includes on on/off power switch 19, a microphone 38, and on LCD
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`display 16 that is also a touch screen system. The small area 16o is the navigation bar that
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`depicts the telephone, GPS and other status data and the active software. AGIS software
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`refers to the application software used in this invention. AGIS is a trademark of AGIS
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`Corporation. Each cell phone includes a CPU and databases that store information useful in
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`the communication network. The CPU also includes a symbol generator for creating touch
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`screen display symbols discussed herein. With the touch screen 16, the screen symbols ore
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`entered through GPS inputs or by the operator using a stylus 14 (or operator finger) by
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`manipulatively directing the stylus 14 to literally touch display 16. The soft switches 16d
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`displayed on the display 16 ore likewise activated by using a stylus 14 and physically and
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`manipulatively directing the stylus to literally touch display 16. The display x, y coordinates of
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`the touched point ore known by a CPU in the PDA section of the communication system in
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`housing 12 that con coordinate various information contained in the PDA portion relative to
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`the x, y coordinate position on the display 16. Inside housing 12 is contained the
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`conventional cellular phone elements including a modem, a CPU for use with a PDA and
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`associated circuitry connected to speaker 24 and microphone 38. A GPS navigational
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`receiver that receives signals from satellites that con determine the latitude and longitude of
`the cellular phone housing 12 con be internal or external to the housing 12. PDA I cellular
`phone units such as these ore currently on sole and sold as a complete unit (or with on
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`external connected GPS) that con be used for cellular telephone calls and sending cellular
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`SMS and TCP/IP or other messages using the PDA's display 16 and computer (CPU). The GPS
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`system including a receiver in housing 12 is capable of determining the latitude and
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`longitude and through SMS, TCP/IP, WiFi or other digital messaging software, to also transmit
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`this latitude and longitude information of housing 12 to other cellular phones in the
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`communication network via cellular communications, WiFi or radio. The device 10 includes a
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`pair of cellular phone hardware activating buttons 20 to turn the cellular phone on and 22 to
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`turn the cellular phone off. Navigation pod actuator 18 is similar to a joy or force stick in that
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`the actuator 18 manually provides movement commands that con be used by the PDA' s
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`software to move a cursor on display 16. Switches 26 and 28 ore designed to quickly select
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`on operator specified software program. Speaker 24 and microphone 38 ore used for audio
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`messages. Switch 19 at the to