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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2002
John Gerald Van Heteren, Foster City, CA (US);
John Gerald Van Heteren, Foster City, CA (US);
Gellnet Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for data collection, including using a plurality of telemetry devices to generate and transmit a series of measurements and transmit the measurements. Each of a plurality of collection devices are used to receive measurements from one or more telemetry devices, transmit data based on the measurements received from a telemetry device in a first set of telemetry devices to a monitoring station and, upon request from the monitoring station, transmit data based on measurements received from a telemetry device in a second set of telemetry devices to the monitoring station. A monitoring station is used to designate a collection device as a preferred collection device for a telemetry device and designate at least one other collection device as an alternate collection device for the telemetry device.