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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |