Phillips Connect Technologies LLC

Procon Analytics, LLC

William Cheney

Gil I Winograd

David Meyer

A master system for providing a single interface between a user and service providers associated with the user's telematic devices. A storage module stores information, including serial numbers of the telematic devices, car information associated with the telematic devices, buyer information associated with the telematic devices, and location information associated with the telematic devices. An interface receives queries from the user and provides selected subsets of the information as responses to the user. An input-output holds multiple simultaneous communication sessions with service providers. A processor receives the queries from the user through the interface, analyzes the information on the storage module to identify a selection of the service providers to which the queries pertain, requests data from the selection of the service providers through the input-output, receives feedback from the selection of the service providers through the input-output, associates the feedback with relevant portions of the information, and presents at least portions of the feedback with the relevant portions of the information to the user through the interface as the response to the user's query.

Unified device access

A method is described for operating an asset tracking device, wherein the tracking device normally collects many location points at a high periodic rate and transmits the location points as a single compressed location history data block at a low periodic rate, which greatly reduces the amount of transmitted data required to send a detailed location history. When a user begins actively viewing the asset location in some application such as on a mobile device, a command is immediately sent from the tracking server back to the tracking device. This command causes the device to start transmitting location reports at a high periodic rate, thereby allowing the user to monitor the current location of the asset in real-time. Transmission at the high data rate required for real-time monitoring only occurs while the user is actively interacting with the application, which is usually a short period of time.

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William Cheney