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- Patent Title: Methods, systems, and key fob apparatuses for facilitating hands free mobile communications from within an automotive vehicle
- Patent Title (中): 用于促进来自机动车辆内的免提移动通信的方法,系统和钥匙扣装置
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Application No.: US10955879Application Date: 2004-09-30
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Publication No.: US07805169B2Publication Date: 2010-09-28
- Inventor: John A. Hicks, III
- Applicant: John A. Hicks, III
- Applicant Address: US NV Reno
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US NV Reno
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: H04M1/00
- IPC: H04M1/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and key fob apparatuses for facilitating hands free mobile communications from within an automotive vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a key fob with a housing and a SIM associated with the housing. The SIM is operative to identify a subscriber to a mobile telephone network when interfaced with the mobile telephone network. The apparatus may further include a key integrated with the key fob and operatively associated with the SIM. The key is operative to initiate the start of an engine of the automotive vehicle and interface the SIM with a mobile telephone, such as a GSM phone, integrated with the automotive vehicle. Thus, when the key is inserted into an ignition switch operatively associated with a SIM reader, the SIM identifies a subscriber to the mobile telephone network.
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