GPS emergency call standards

[Pander]

Perhaps you can also merge the functionality with
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Anti-Theft_Mode and avoid the patent thing.

Lothar Behrens wrote:
> Besides all the discussion. Is this here really yet patented?
> 
> http://www.brainshell.de/patentmarkt_ikt.php
> http://www.brainshell.de/upload/Openmoko_de01b9e8b4.pdf
> 
> If a patent would disable an emergeny functionality like automating  
> the alert
> in case of 'changing behaviour' (accels), or it makes the device a bit  
> more
> expensive, because it helps save live, I must say patents are the  
> wrong way.
> 
> I think, such an important issue should not be patented, because it is  
> a feature
> all phones should become and not only these whose manufacturer are  
> willing
> to pay the patent licenses.
> 
> Also, in my view, the amount of invention is not quite high to  
> eligible for a patent.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Is there prior art?
> http://www.steiger-stiftung.de/GPS-Ortung-So-funktioniert-s.67.0.html
> 
> An interactive location is established and is provided by many  
> services, does an automation
> of them by a change in accelorometer behavior not be always the  
> conclusion to be the best?
> 
> Wouldn't that idea in someones head earlyer?
> 
> Lothar
> 
> Am 19.03.2009 um 01:18 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 02:58:10PM +0100, Tilman Baumann wrote:
>>> Harald Welte wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:06:20PM +0100, Tilman Baumann wrote:
>>>>> PS: According to Wikipedia, 112 works on all GSM networks no  
>>>>> matter if
>>>>> the number is a emergency number in tie state.
>>>> that depends on what the network operator does.
>>> Yep, but there seems to be some international agreement on the
>>> significance of 112.
>>> I don't have any quote yet, but as far as I understood it is even
>>> required to by the GSM standards. But that might be wrong.
>>   A D112 AT command is mentioned in the 3GPP TS 07.07 specification  
>> which you
>> can get from here:
>> http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/0707.htm
>> Quoting section "8.3	Enter PIN +CPIN":
>>
>> 	NOTE:	Commands which interact with ME that are accepted when ME is
>> 		pending SIM PIN, SIM PUK, or PH‑SIM are: +CGMI, +CGMM,
>> 		+CGMR, +CGSN, D112; (emergency call), +CPAS, +CFUN, +CPIN,
>> 		+CDIS (read and test command only), and +CIND (read and test
>> 		command only).
>>
>>   I don't know where the D112 command is documented. I also haven't  
>> looked
>> through the commands to see if there is a loophole such that you can  
>> dial
>> 112 without making an emergency call.
>>
>>   Btw, a few days ago danish media had a news story about unintended
>> emergency calls. It appears that the answering machine offered by many
>> telcos is partly to blame. What happens is that you press and hold  
>> "1" to
>> speed dial your answering machine, press "1" to listen to a message  
>> and
>> press "2" to delete a message. Doing so leaves the number 112 on the
>> display...
>>
>> -- 
>> Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
>> Danish law requires addresses in e-mail to be logged and stored for  
>> a year
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