Class 342/457 - Land vehicle location (e.g., bus, police car

Subclass of Class 342 - Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation)
Definition: Subject matter wherein the position of a means of conveyance
No. of applications: 38
Last issue date: 11/24/2011

Application No.	Application Title	Issue Date
20110285593	RADIO FREQUENCY POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES A positioning system for radio frequency devices includes a two-way radio antenna, for vehicles, having a transmitting and a receiving element. Reference antennas have retro-directive arrays which can shape the signal beams in elevation; polarize transmission and recept...	11/24/2011
20110279325	LOCALIZATION SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A DEVICE THAT CAN BE MOVED ON THE FLOOR The invention relates to a localization system for determining a state of a device that can move on a floor, comprising a floor transceiver system having a plurality of floor transceivers which each have floor antennas for marking position points within the plane of the...	11/17/2011
20110267235	METHOD OF TRACKING A VEHICLE USING MICRORADIOS A microradio is provided with a hysteretic switch to permit an optimum range increasing charging cycle, with the charging cycle being long relative to the transmit cycle. Secondly, an ensemble of microradios permits an n²power enhancement to increase range w...	11/03/2011
20110148713	Apparatus And Method For Tracking Stolen Vehicles An indication that jamming is occurring with vehicular communications is received. When activated by a control signal from a vehicle recovery service, a vehicle location signal is transmitted over a channel in the communication network that enables the vehicle recovery ...	06/23/2011
20110148712	Apparatus And Method For Determining Vehicle Location Communications are established and conducted between a communication and jamming detection at a vehicle and a base station. At the communication and jamming detection device, a determination is made as to when jamming of the communications between the communication and ...	06/23/2011
20110145063	TARGETING APPLICATIONS WITH ADVERTISEMENTS Collecting application execution data by a push service and targeting application programs with advertisements based on the collected data. Statistics such as activity, popularity, and frequency of execution for each of the application programs are generated based on th...	06/16/2011
20110025556	CONNECTION LOCATOR IN A POWER AGGREGATION SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED ELECTRIC RESOURCES Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection m...	02/03/2011
20100309051	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A MOBILE DEVICE Some embodiments use scanning devices to characterize radio signals received at a number of locations within a geographical area of interest. The signal characteristics along with the location information associated with the characteristics are stored in a centralized r...	12/09/2010
20100152972	PARALLEL PARK ASSIST A parallel parking assist system and a method for evaluating an area for use as a parking space for a host vehicle, the parallel park assist system comprises a ultra wideband radar sensor disposed in the host vehicle, wherein the radar sensor obtains a measurement data ...	06/17/2010
20100149019	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADS-B VALIDATION, ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MULTILATERATION, AND ELLIPTICAL SURVEILLANCE A system and method are disclosed to track aircraft or other vehicles using techniques including multilateration and elliptical surveillance. Unlike conventional approaches that use time difference of arrival for multilateration at a fixed set of reception points, this ...	06/17/2010
20100106602	LOCATABLE SHOPPING CART AND METHODS FOR LOCATING THE SAME A shopping cart that can be geographically located, methods for locating such carts, and a selection system for enabling a user to create a list of items on a portable computing device, to communicate with external devices to locate each of the items available on the li...	04/29/2010
20100082484	Proxy-Based, Transaction Authorization System A system is disclosed that features a transport vehicle in which a responsive object is present, such as a truck in which a cellphone is present, in which the object is equipped to provide location or other state information when queried. The transport vehicle is outfit...	04/01/2010
20100076622	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS AND CONTROLLING VEHICLE OPERATIONS IN RESPONSE THERETO In at least one embodiment, a system for determining the location of a wireless device with respect to a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a plurality of antennas positioned about the vehicle for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal from the wireless device. ...	03/25/2010
20090315777	TRACKING OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS A system includes first and second transmitters attachable to first and second vehicles. The transmitters can each transmit successive signals at predetermined time intervals. Tracking stations at different locations are configured to receive the signals transmitted by ...	12/24/2009
20090207079	Radar sensor for receiving radar wave while judging existence of wave attenuator A radar sensor receives a radar wave signal through a radome in each of antennas while judging existence of an attenuating thing in a detecting unit. This unit extracts a maximum level channel from receiving channels assigned to the antennas every modulation period, cal...	08/20/2009
20090171528	APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR RECORDING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A VEHICLE The present system for recording vehicle-related data does not involve an elaborate installation procedure and thus may be routinely transferred from one vehicle to the next. The system has a recording module and at least on sensor module. The recording module has a wir...	07/02/2009
20090102721	Apparatus and Method for Determining Asset Location Via Local Triangulation The present invention is a method for locating an asset in a facility. An example of an asset is a vehicle and an example of a facility is a parking facility. When the user enters the facility with the asset, the user receives a base and code from a base/code booth. The...	04/23/2009
20080246654	METHOD AND AN APPARATUS TO ASSIST USER BACK TO PREVIOUS LOCATION A device is provided, which uses a positioning system, to determine a first geographic location, while the device is located at the first geographic location. Information concerning the first geographic location may be stored in a computer memory. The device may be move...	10/09/2008
20080036659	CORRELATION OF FLIGHT TRACK DATA WITH OTHER DATA SOURCES A method of triangulating aircraft transponder signals using a number of receivers connected to a central station over communication links includes applying at least one logic rule at each receiver to incoming transponder signals to filter redundant transponder signals,...	02/14/2008
20080012761	Remote tracking system and device with variable sampling and sending capabilities based on environmental factors A remote tracking device for use in a remote tracking system is described. The remote tracking device includes a positioning system receiver, such as GPS, operable to receive signals indicative of the location of the remote tracking device, a cellular transceiver operab...	01/17/2008
20070257841	Method And Apparatus For Localizing A Mobile Transmitter Embodied As An Identification Device, Especially A Vehicle Key In a method for locating a mobile transmitter embodied as an identification device (5), especially a vehicle key, relative to a receiver configured as a base station and for recognizing multipath propagation (11b) of a signal (11a) tra...	11/08/2007
20070222674	AUTOMATED ASSET POSITIONING FOR LOCATION AND INVENTORY TRACKING USING MULTIPLE POSITIONING TECHNIQUES A system and method is provided for tracking and maintaining a highly accurate inventory of shipping containers that are stored within container storage facilities. The invention includes using multiple complementary real-time and post-processing positioning techniques ...	09/27/2007
20070150176	System and method for performing distributed sequential node localization in active sensor deployment A system and method for performing distributed sequential node localization in active sensor deployment is presented. An equilateral orthogonal reference frame is defined. The reference frame includes s+1 anchor nodes that is placed in s-dimensional physical space. New ...	06/28/2007
20070109096	Global tracking and communications device A tracking and communication system, in which a device attaches to heavy equipment and enables remote monitoring of that equipment, is disclosed. The device is highly configurable with extensive communication capabilities, and is integrated within a larger communication...	05/17/2007
20070093213	Method and system for electromagnetic field evaluation The field received starting at least one source of electromagnetic field in a determined position of the territory covered by a communication network has a plurality of field sources estimated on the basis of a propagation model. The model in question is modified, for e...	04/26/2007
20070069951	Remote object locator and method A device for locating an object such as a vehicle in a parking lot by remotely actuating playback circuitry in communication with a loudspeaker disposed with the object. The device is capable of recording and playing back audio signals from any number of sources. A port...	03/29/2007
20070052586	Notification systems and methods enabling a response to change particulars of delivery or pickup Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: monitoring travel data in connection with a mobile thing (MT) that is destined to pickup or deliver an item or service ...	03/08/2007
20070040739	Locating a roving position receiver in a location network The present invention discloses a positioning system and method for enabling a roving position receiver to determinist own position. The positioning system comprises a specialized transceiver (hereinafter termed a positioning-unit device) that receives one or more refer...	02/22/2007
20070001867	Method and system for locating a mobile radio receiver in a radio system with multiple transmitters A method of determining the location of a mobile receiver is provided. The method works within a radio system in one or more dimensions, the radio system includes a network of transmitters the positions of which are known. The method comprises the steps of: compiling a ...	01/04/2007
20060256012	Apparatus and methods for managing content exchange on a wireless device Apparatus, methods, computer readable media and processors operable on a wireless device may provide an anti-spam engine operable to intercept content intended for and/or generated by client applications, and filter out unwanted content. The anti-spam engine may include...	11/16/2006
20060232472	Location determination utilizing environmental factors A method and apparatus for determining the geographic location of a user incorporates the sensing of a plurality of physical environmental parameters at the user's location. The parameter values are compared to corresponding parameter values associated with known locati...	10/19/2006
20060077100	Testing systems and methods for a resource constrained device Systems and methods for providing symbolic information about fields, methods, and/or classes for a target device. A system and method may be used where the runtime processing is split between a host system and a target system. At the target device a test program uses a ...	04/13/2006
20050285790	Apparatus and method for tracing a path travelled by an entity or object, and tag for use therewith Apparatus and method for tracing a geographical journey taken by an entity, for example an article (shipment), asset or person, on a worldwide map uses a miniature, passive, low power, radio receiver tag that is attached to the entity and collects multiple FM spectra du...	12/29/2005
20050248484	Key for a vehicle A vehicle comprises a base station for wireless transmission of locating support information to support locating, supported on a locating satellite, as well as a key for the vehicle, in which the key includes a locating module to determine the position of the key as a f...	11/10/2005
20050206567	System for transmitting a signal for positioning and method for producing the system A transmitting system, which is capable of transmitting a signal for positioning to an area where radio waves are hardly received, is provided. The transmitting system for transmitting the signal for positioning includes a GPS compatible mixer combining a GPS signal for...	09/22/2005
20050075112	Method and device for localising packet data service-capable radio stations in a communication system Mobile stations communicate with a network station in a radio cell of a network via at least one radio interface. Localization of the position of the stations is carried out by the network either periodically or according to demand. To enable fast provision of localized...	04/07/2005
20050060094	Apparatus and method for estimating a velocity of a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system Apparatus and method are provided in a BS (Base Station) apparatus of a mobile communication system including a velocity estimator for estimating a velocity of a mobile station (MS) and a channel estimator for performing channel estimation using a plurality of channel e...	03/17/2005
20050012591	Anti-theft system and method A system and apparatus for detecting unauthorized movement of a moveable object where the system includes a GPS receiver, cellular modulator, processor, pager modem, sensor and two-way pager. When the system is coupled to a moveable object and is armed via the pager, th...	01/20/2005

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Class 342/457 - Land vehicle location (e.g., bus, police car