Radio communication system with automatic geographic event notification

Patent 6112074 Issued on August 29, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

December 22, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Pinder, Ellis Arthur

Assignee

Motorola, Inc.

Application

No. 995922 filed on 12/22/1997

US Classes:

455/404.2, Location monitoring340/601Meteorological condition

Examiners

Primary: Trost, William
Assistant: Craver, Charles

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Fuller; Andrew S.

International Class

H04M 011/00

Abstract

A subscriber (125) to a radio communication system (110) is automatically notified of an event affecting or potential affecting a particular geographical locality. The radio communication system obtains such event and locality information (310, 320), and uses the locality information to transmit the event information to subscribers of that system potentially affected by the event. In one embodiment, the system automatically uses only transmitters that service at least a portion of the affected locality to transmit the event information (330, 340). In another embodiment, the system automatically transmits event information selectively to those subscribers having a location designation corresponding to the particular locality (410, 420).