Resources Contact Us Home Browse by: INVENTOR PATENT HOLDER PATENT NUMBER DATE     Dealer-locator service and apparatus for mobile telecommunications system Image Number 3 for United States Patent #5963861. A dealer-locator service is provided to mobile telephones (40) in a mobile telecommunications system (FIG. 1). When a mobile telephone initiates a call to the dealer-locator service, a mobile telephone switching office (MTSO 41) identifies the one of a plurality of base stations (20-23) through which the call is made. A dealer-locator service apparatus (43-45) then uses this base-station identification, rather than the telephone number of the calling mobile telephone, to look up in a dealer-locator database (300-301) the one of a plurality of business locations (30-33, 50-52) of the dealer that is in the vicinity of the identified base station, and hence in the vicinity of the calling mobile telephone. The apparatus then reports the address of the one business location to the caller, and optionally also causes the MTSO to connect the call to a telephone number of the one business location. The dealer-locator database may be programmed by individually calling the dealer-locator service from each dealer business location via a mobile telephone that is positioned at that dealer business location and supplying that location's address and phone number. The apparatus records the identity of the base station through which the call was made along with the supplied information in the database.       Recently Added Patents Pixels having extra-planar fringe field amplifiers for multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal displays Cell-free system for synthesis of proteins derived from cultured mammalian cells Liquid dispenser Coloring agents and methods of use thereof Hunting ladder stand having collapsible ladder segments Display apparatus Cracking catalysts, additives, methods of making them and using them   Randomly Featured Patents Public IP transport network Image display Method and apparatus for capturing the presentation of an interactive user session, monitoring, replaying and joining sessions Multi-mode distraction system for ankle arthroscopy Semiconductor chip and package with heat dissipation Propylene-ethylene/butene block copolymer Nonvolatile semiconductor memory having page mode programming function Method for the production of carbonaceous articles, particularly strands Separate page table base address for minivisor Selected processing for non-equilibrium light alloys and products © 2006-2008 PatentGenius. All Rights Reserved.