Robert J Gee

US Patent:

6421607, Jul 16, 2002

Filed:

Sep 22, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/667354

Inventors:

Robert A. Gee - Tempe AZ
Stanislaus Gonsalves - Elgin AZ
Jeffrey Kohley - Carol Stream AZ
Mark McNulty - Carol Stream AZ
James Blake Bullock - Gilbert AZ

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G01C 2100

US Classification:

701209, 701211, 340988

Abstract:

A distributed navigation system and method for providing driving instructions to a user. The system includes a service center having a navigation server and associated workstations. The service center stores driving instructions in a continuously updated map database. In response to a user request the instructions are transmitted by way of a wireless network to a client device residing in the user vehicle. The instructions are assembled into sequential stepwise driving directions and stored in a storage device in the client device. Commands from the user trigger playback of the driving instructions in a stepwise fashion.

US Patent:

6704564, Mar 9, 2004

Filed:

Sep 22, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/667336

Inventors:

Rainer M Lange - Munich, DE
Robert A. Gee - Tempe AZ
Axel Fuchs - Oak Park IL
John E. Emrich - Bartlett IL

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

H04M 1110

US Classification:

4554121, 4554122, 701 24, 701 29, 701117, 701119, 712223, 712225, 340 72, 340 752

Abstract:

A method for controlling message transmission by a telecommunications device ( ). A trigger configuration signal ( ) including a dynamic logic expression ( ) is received by the telecommunications device ( ). The dynamic logic expression ( ) defines one or more conditions associated with the transmission of a message ( ). The telecommunications device ( ) applies the dynamic logic expression ( ) and transmits the message ( ) if the dynamic logic expression ( ) is satisfied.