Radioterminals and associated operating methods that transmit position information responsive to rate of change of position

Abstract

A radioterminal includes a wireless communications transceiver, a GPS receiver and a controller. The controller is configured to authorize at least one other radioterminal to receive geographic position information of the radioterminal, to activate the GPS receiver to obtain a measure of a geographic position of the radioterminal and to activate the wireless communications transceiver to transmit the measure of the geographic position of the radioterminal to the at least one other radioterminal that was authorized, responsive to a rate of change of position of the radioterminal. Related methods also are described.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.