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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Martin J. Durbin, Oak Forest, IL (US);
Assignee:
One Plus Corp., Northbrook, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 2/100 ; G06F 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 2/100 ; G06F 1/100 ;
Abstract
A system for remotely managing a network of waste containers ( ), each of which is associated with a monitoring unit ( ), utilizes a central computer ( ) having a communication link to each monitoring unit ( ). The central computer ( ) provides a dynamically updated display, via a display module ( ) having a full container window (or zone) which shows full containers ( ), an alarm window (or zone) which shows non-full containers ( ) having an alarm condition, and a container status window (or zone) which shows non-full containers not having an alarm condition.