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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2017
Lojack Corporation, Canton, MA (US);
Fabio Meacci, Cambridge, MA (US);
James A. Justice, Bellingham, MA (US);
Jesse L. Rhodes, Franklin, MA (US);
Michael Goodwin, North Andover, MA (US);
LoJack Corporation, Canton, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for power management systems are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a power management system for a vehicle locating unit, the vehicle locating unit having a receiver for receiving at an assigned message frame an intermittent transmission from a communications source, wherein each intermittent transmission includes at least one assignable message frame, the power management system including a processing device for controlling wake and sleep modes of the receiver and a memory for storing a plurality of memory bit patterns for comparison with a pattern of bits contained in some portion of an assigned message frame, wherein the processing device is configured to perform the following steps: index to the receiver's assigned message frame in the intermittent transmission, re-enter wake mode after indexing, and subject the receiver to a constant average current draw.