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Silcom Research Limited

John Benjamin Heckman

Gyles Panther

David Graham Powell

Systems, methods, and devices relating to tracking a vehicle on its journey. At predetermined reporting time intervals, the vehicle's location is determined using GNSS and a current vector is calculated based on a current location and an immediately preceding location. The difference between the current vector and the immediately preceding vector is then determined and this difference is stored in the data packet. The data packet is transmitted to the base station using a two-way radio data link at select predetermined transmission time intervals. The data in the data packet is encoded to minimize the number of bits needed to store each data point.

Method for tracking a path taken by a vehicle

A synchronization apparatus in a selective call receiver comprised of a digital variable bandwidth phase locked loop with means to simultaneously detect the synchronization code word, means to generate a binary code from a register representative of lock quality, means to increment or decrement the lock quality register, means to sum the lock quality binary code into a phase error register, whereby the polarity of the sum is controlled by a phase comparison of the a local clock with the received data, and whereby the under or over flow of the phase error register determines the direction of a phase adjustment to the local bit clock generator.

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John Benjamin Heckman