SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING PERSONS OR ASSETS USING CENTRALIZED COMPUTING OF NODE LOCATION AND DISPLAYING THE NODE LOCATIONS

摘要

A system and method for providing position information of mobile user terminals (103) in a portable voice and data wireless communications network, such as an ad-hoc wireless communications network (100). More particularly, the present invention relates to a system of locating persons or assets using a centralized computing device, such as a server (125), that computes the respective locations of the terminals (103) from the respective information provided by the terminals (103) relating to their respective locations. A graphical display (121) that receives the location information from the centralized server (125) and generates a graphical display (121) of the location of all or selected terminals (103) based on their locations as computed by the server (125).