Lojack Corporation

Micrologic, Inc.

Pepsico, Inc.

Micrologics, Inc.

Smartroutes Systems Limited Partnership

Sheldon P Apsell

Norval D Stapelfeld

Carlos A Barberis

Martin J Berger

Steven Rothman

John Mahon

John P Liebesny

Thomas Alborough

Dan Kotlow

Paul J Bouchard

George Shinopoulos

Norval Stapefeld

An integrated monitoring system for integrating and displaying the location of widely dispersed construction vehicle equipments at their respective sites together with the present location and recent track of respective maintenance vehicles for servicing the equipments, through the use of satellite positioning, wireless data communication and Internet facilities for determining such locations.

METHOD OF AND SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING MAINTENANCE VEHICLE AND SERVICE PERSONNEL TRACKING INFORMATION WITH THE REMOTE MONITORING OF THE LOCATION, STATUS, UTILIZATION AND CONDITION OF WIDELY GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED FLEETS OF VEHICULAR CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND THE LIKE TO BE MAINTAINED, AND PROVIDING AND DISPLAYING TOGETHER BOTH CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE VEHICLE INFORMATION

A novel method of and system for remotely monitoring location, status, utilization and condition of a widely geographically dispersed fleets of vehicular construction equipment, using the resources of satellite positioning and communication and Internet facilities, and processing and displaying such information for fleet managers and the like.

Method of and system and apparatus for remotely monitoring the location, status, utilization and condition of widely geographically dispresed fleets of vehicular construction equipment and the like and providing and displaying such information

In a signal receiving apparatus as, for example, that used in the monitoring in a stolen vehicle transceiver of the presence of sequential transmitted signals specifically requesting that transceiver to respond to enable tracking the vehicle, wherein the receiver is powered by a consumable energy source of predetermined budgeted lifetime and adapted to operate between quiescent energy-saving and energized energy-consuming states for performing such sequential signal monitoring, desired signal identifying and related functions, a method of and apparatus for insuring the availability of energy to be able to perform such functions within said predetermined budgeted life time, that comprises, allocating budget time intervals for periodically operating the receiver intermittently in energized state to enable the performing of such functions as monitoring for such signals; and, in the event of inordinate energy consumption during such operation, that, if continued, would render the operation out of overall allocated time budget, adaptively skipping time intervals with the receiver quiescent, sufficiently to get the operation back on overall time budget.

Method of and apparatus for battery and similar power source conservation in periodically operable portable and related radio receivers and the like

A novel method, system and protocol for providing continually updated traffic (and other) information from a central station to preferably telephonically linked caller customers (though other communication links are feasible), involving enabling the caller to enter on the caller's keyboard a code for the particular zone for which a traffic information report is desired, and thereupon to receive a transmission of such report from the central station; and then, by further caller keyboard entries, requesting reports on additional specified zones--all on the same call--and further requesting from the station, by keyboard entry, automatic updating report(s) in the specified zone(s) in the event of significant changes in traffic information (including traffic incidents) during a predetermined time after the initial report.

Method of and system for providing continually updated traffic or other

An improved vehicle or other object-tracking and location system, preferably, though not essentially, of national scope, wherein transponder or transceiver-equipped stolen or missing vehicles or other objects may be located and/or tracked, as by appropriately-equipped police direction-finding tracking vehicles, through homing-in on periodic transponder reply radio transmissions automatically activated by command activation signals broadcast on the same carrier frequency as the transponder reply signals and with encoded vehicle identification information that causes the intended vehicle transponder so to reply, and with provision for modifying the command signals to require an increased rate of periodic transponder reply signal transmission to assist homing-in on the selected vehicle. In a preferred mode of operation, the verification of whether the reportedly missing vehicle is thus transponder-equipped is preferably established by querying the FBI-NCIC computer system, which will provide the said coded vehicle identification information and automatically cause the appropriate sector or area to broadcast said command activation signals.

Apparatus for locating and/or tracking stolen or missing vehicles and

A locking clamp for a wheel secured by external lug bolts to an axle of a trailer or other vehicle and having an inner annular hub peripherally surrounded by a tire, the clamp having, in combination, first and second interlocking L-shaped members, the first member comprising a chock as one leg and carrying a tubular bar the inner surface of which is to be juxtaposed against the rear of the tire, and the other leg of which extends inwardly of the inner tire side surface; and the second member comprising an L-shaped tubular bar the front leg of which is of cross-section less than that of the first member tubular bar in order to slide through the same and extend inwardly therebeyond, with the other leg extending parallel to the said other leg of the first member but across the outer side of the tire and carrying a hub disc adjustable to cover the wheel outer hub lug bolts and prevent access to the same; and means at the inward extension of the second member front leg for receiving locking means.

Locking clamp for a trailer tire-carrying wheel and the like

An improved vehicle or other object-tracking and location system, preferably, though not essentially, of national scope, wherein transponder or transceiver-equipped stolen or missing vehicles or other objects may be located and/or tracked, as by appropriately-equipped police direction/finding tracking vehicles, through homing-in on periodic transponder reply radio transmissions automatically activated by command activation signals broadcast on the same carrier frequency as the transponder reply signals and with encoded vehicle identification information that causes the intended vehicle transponder so to reply, and with provision for modifying the command signals to require an increased rate of periodic transponder reply signal transmission to assist homing-in on the selected vehicle. In a preferred mode of operation, the verification of whether the reportedly missing vehicle is thus transponder-equipped is preferably established by querying the FBI-NCIC computer system, which will provide the said coded vehicle identification information and automatically cause the appropriate sector or area to broadcast said command activation signals.

Method of and system and apparatus for locating and/or tracking stolen

An arrangement for conducting an on-the-cup promotion in which promotional prize information is encoded onto each soft drink cup with an optically machine-readable code. The code is used with the promotion to identify whether a customer has won any of the different prizes available. In order to provide the needed variation and the completely random distribution of prizes needed for a fair game, each individual cup is separately encoded as it is being manufactured by a computer controlled printing station directly preceding a cup-forming machine. All of the necessary information on the number or prizes, the frequency of occurrence of each prize, and a program to randomize that frequency is placed in the computer software. A scanner at the point of sale scans the code, signals whether the cup is a prize winner or not, and delivers a printed ticket notifying winners of their prizes and how to redeem them.

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Newton, MA, United States of America

Sheldon P Apsell