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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165792 | Methods and systems for broadcasting an estimated time of arrival A mobile device of a user may provide an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) of the user to other participants of a scheduled meeting. In providing the ETA, the mobile device may retrieve meeting information associated with the scheduled meeting, location information as... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8103444 | System and method for reducing communication load of apparatus for tracking moving object Provided are a system and a method for reducing a communication load of an apparatus for tracking a moving object. The system includes: an estimated necessary time calculating unit receiving a current location and an arrival location of the moving object from a term... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090530 | Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contexts A route planning system comprises a receiver component that receives a request for directions between a beginning point and a destination point. An analysis component analyzes a traffic system representation that varies as context varies and outputs expected amounts... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090529 | System for diminishing the load of platform which traces the location of moving objects and method thereof In existing moving object tracking, there is a great communication load between a terminal and a platform, because the terminal should report its location to the platform every second or every minute and the platform should frequently process the location form the t... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073614 | Meeting notification and modification service Techniques are described for providing a meeting notification and automatic modification service. A system may be configured to identify an appointment in a calendar application, identify a geographic location of the appointment, and identify, before the appointment... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8010282 | System and method to display operational and revenue data for an airport facility A system, comprising a first computing device receiving data from an input feed, the data corresponding to one of operations data and revenue data of an airport facility, the first computing device organizing the data into files which are viewable by users of the sy... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7869941 | Meeting notification and modification service Techniques are described for providing a meeting notification and automatic modification service. A system may be configured to identify an appointment in a calendar application, identify a geographic location of the appointment, and identify, before the appointment... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869942 | Travel plan presenting apparatus and method thereof A travel plan presenting apparatus includes: a travel history accumulation unit (109) which accumulates, in association with a date and time, pieces of travel history information regarding a travel of the mobile object from a departure place to an arrival pla... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7822540 | Systems, methods, and programs for determining a travel-related time Systems, methods, and programs obtain a start position and obtain map information including link information and mesh information, the mesh information dividing an area covered by the map information in a mesh grid having a plurality of adjacent meshes. The systems,... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7756632 | System and method for performing 4-dimensional navigation A system and method are disclosed for computing a vehicle's motion in four dimensions (e.g., three spatial dimensions and time) and reliably predicting the vehicle's arrival time at a predetermined location, by providing a graphical display to an operator of the veh... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7739031 | Vehicle on-board unit A vehicle on-board unit is configured and arranged to report an estimated time of arrival and an accuracy indicator for an estimated time of arrival from historical estimated time of arrival information. The vehicle on-board unit basically has a destination input se... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7636630 | Traffic information prediction device with day-factors and day factor classifications There is provided a prediction calculation system capable of allowing a numerical traffic information to be predicted in such a manner that day factors and the like are reflected thereon. Even if a day whose combination of the day factors is the same as that of a pr... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7623960 | System and method for performing 4-dimensional navigation A system and method are disclosed for computing a vehicle's motion in four dimensions (e.g., three spatial dimensions and time) and reliably predicting the vehicle's arrival time at a predetermined location, by providing a graphical display to an operator of the veh... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7610145 | System and method for determining recommended departure time The present invention provides a system and method for determining the necessary departure time to allow for an on-time or desired arrival time at a particular location over a particular route based on the evaluation of historic, present, and predicted road conditio... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606658 | Financial decision aid for 4-D navigation A method for facilitating a financial decision for 4-dimensional navigation of a vehicle includes receiving navigation information for the vehicle. A current location of the vehicle is determined. Data associated with at least one predetermined location of a plurali... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7571049 | Timing device, system and method for estimated time of arrival (ETA) A timing device monitors an estimated time of arrival (ETA) for an object in a process of traversing a predetermined range of distance by computing the estimated time of arrival based on a time the object has spent completing at least one interval during the course ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7421335 | Navigation system and method A navigation system collects life information associated with a user and extracts a life pattern from the collected life information. The navigation system registers the extracted life pattern as life pattern information. The navigation system determines a predicted... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412325 | System and method for selective navigation tracking There is disclosed systems and methods for controlling the communication of navigation positioning information from a source of the information to another device for tracking purposes. In one embodiment, a user having a communicating device that maintains a record o... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7394403 | Everyday wireless vehicle notification and vehicle location systems and methods related thereto The present invention features a system and methods for notifying passengers of an approaching vehicle. Utilizing such a system and methods, passengers can remain in a safe, controlled environment, avoiding harsh environmental conditions and excessive waiting times,... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7375649 | Traffic routing based on segment travel time A system for identifying a fastest possible travel route is disclosed. A traveler data processor collects traffic speed data and associates the traffic speed data with road segments. The road segments collectively represent one or more possible travel routes from a ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376509 | Travel time calculating method and traffic information display method for a navigation device The navigation device of the present invention has a storage device which stores map data including link data of respective links constituting roads on a map, and statistical data including travel time (moving speed) which is determined by statistical values of traf... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369851 | Communications network capable of determining SIM card changes in electronic devices A communication network comprising a carrier network with a service coordinator is capable of acting upon SIM card change information detected by an agent located in the electronic devices used in the communication network. In general, the agent in electronic device... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366608 | G.P.S. management system A management system using Global Positioning System receivers for tracking remote units from a central office and quickly and conveniently determining if those remote units have varied from a set of predetermined parameters of operation. The system also includes pro... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366125 | Extensible satellite communication system A satellite network [100] includes backbone satellites [110]. The backbone satellites [110] act as routers for data units transmitted through network [100]. The backbone satellites [110] communicate with one another through inter-s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7367027 | System for generating efficient and compact update packages A system for generating efficient and compact update packages makes it possible to process a source binary image of software/firmware for an electronic device and a target binary image in order to generate a compact update package. It generates bubbles information t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356727 | Electronic device employing efficient fault tolerance Disclosed herein is an electronic device capable of providing efficient fault-tolerance update processes by employing a backup memory block used in conjunction with a block-by-block update process, wherein the backup memory block may be employed to store backup cont... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340736 | Electronic device with an update agent that employs preprocessing techniques for update Methods of updating an electronic device having an update agent employing preprocessing techniques is disclosed. The methods described permit an electronic device having a non-volatile memory to update a plurality banks in an efficient manner, by preprocessing the o... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337130 | Methods for automatically providing a personalized product A personalized product producing system enables customers to order a personalized product, such as a name card, a stamp, or a sticker/label, inexpensively and conveniently. Customers operate their own cellular phones to send personalized information to be engraved i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321825 | Method and apparatus for determining vehicle operating conditions and providing a warning or intervention in response to the conditions A control system (12) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes a GPS system (16) that generates a vehicle position for a vehicle relative to a surface, a plurality of driver inputs (40), and a plurality of vehicle inputs (50). A con... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319414 | Secure notification messaging systems and methods using authentication indicia Systems and methods are disclosed for notification or messaging systems that give confidence to the notification-receiving party that a notification concerning the travel status of a mobile thing is from a proper authorized source. One representative method, among o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313791 | Firmware update network and process employing preprocessing techniques A network for updating firmware, drivers, or application software facilitates the access to generated update packages by electronic devices and the update of firmware, drivers, content or application software in a fault tolerant mode. A “Bubbles” technique is em... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292937 | Navigation system, data server, traveling route establishing method and information providing method A navigation system, portable information processing device and its control program, data server, information processing server, navigation method, traveling route establishing method, information providing method, and area information providing method are disclosed... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292938 | Position locating system, terminal device, control method for terminal device, control program for terminal device, and computer readable record medium storing control program for terminal device therein A terminal device 50 includes aid-information acquisition device to acquire aid information 154 from an information providing apparatus, an information-providing-apparatus-sort judgment device to judge the type of information providing apparatus on the... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283895 | Method and device for calculating a target speed for an aircraft A method and device for calculating a target speed of an aircraft may include a flight point time determining section that determines when the aircraft actually gets to a particular flight point, taking account of the aircraft's current target speed. A time interval... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274332 | Multiple evaluators for evaluation of a purality of conditions A system and method is disclosed for locating people or objects. In particular, a system and method for locating a wireless mobile station using a plurality of mobile station location estimators is disclosed. The system is useful for 911 emergency calls, tracking, r... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272493 | G.P.S. management system A management system using Global Positioning System receivers for tracking remote units from a central office and quickly and conveniently determining if those remote units have varied from a set of predetermined parameters of operation. The system also includes pro... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7248963 | Method and system for aircraft flow management A method for managing the flow of a plurality of aircraft at an aviation resource, based upon specified data and operational goals pertaining to the aircraft and resource and the control of aircraft arrival fix times at the resource by a system manager, includes the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248247 | Method and system for deterministic matching of objects and events which are not uniquely identified A method, and a system for carrying out that method, for deterministically matching first elements of a first set of objects or events with second elements of a second set of objects or events. Matching first and second elements are associated with common values of ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236100 | Personal communication and positioning system A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233907 | Parcel or service delivery with partially scheduled time windows A delivery scheduling system that is configured for scheduling the delivery of an item or service from a sender to an intended recipient. After receiving a signal indicating that, for example, a particular package is to be delivered to an intended recipient, the sys... | 06/19/2007 |
