Owner oriented system for locating lost or stolen property

Claim 1

An owner oriented system for locating lost or stolen property, comprising: (a) powering up a GPS module including a receiver, an antenna and a GPS computational and communications unit operatively connected within a vehicle to a microcomputer attached to a memory having a buffer and a modem attached to a mobile phone; and (b) regularly and automatically receiving GPS signals through the antenna into the GPS receiver and computational and communication unit; converting the signals to position data; (c) regularly and automatically testing for availability of position data from the GPS module through control of an activated program in the microcomputer; (d) testing position data for novelty; (e) queuing in a memory buffer novel position data; (f) regularly and automatically testing for an incoming call through the mobile phone; (g) testing an incoming call for a password and a vehicle position request; and (h) serially downloading contents of a buffer upon the detection of the password and a position request.