Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

Jerome R Timko

Marvin R Hamrick

Jeffery A Sylvester

Wesley Brown Ecton

A system and method are provided for transmitting equipment installation data between an equipment installer and an operations center server. An installer of equipment, such as a monitoring device attached to a vehicle, calls an operations center server via a wireless telecommunications device, such as a wireless telephone. The call placed by the equipment installer is transmitted to a transfer server. A voice-to-data software application at the transfer server converts the communication to data for transfer to the operations center server. The operations center server prompts the installer with a series of prompts to obtain equipment installation information. Prompts from the operations center server are transmitted in data to the transfer server where those prompts are converted to voice before being transmitted to the equipment installer's wireless telephone. The equipment installer responds to prompts from the operations center server with required installation information, such as equipment identification numbers, vehicle identification numbers, and the like. Once the desired equipment is installed in the vehicle or equipment item, other tests such as an alarm test may be performed.

Voice-to-data equipment installation set up method and system

A mounting assembly is disclosed for mounting an antenna to a roof of a vehicle. The assembly includes a mounting plate with a mounting pad for mounting the antenna to the mounting plate, and at least one bracket to which the mounting plate is mounted. Each bracket is for being mounted to the roof of the vehicle. Each bracket may be a cross-bracket for extending between stringers on the vehicle or an angle-bracket for being mounted to a vertical surface on the vehicle, for example. The mounting plate and each bracket are each provided with a plurality of regularly spaced slots through which the mounting plate is mounted to the bracket. Each slot in the mounting plate extends for a distance generally along the periphery of the mounting plate, and each slot in each bracket extends for a distance generally longitudinally.

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Lilburn, GA, United States of America

Jerome R Timko