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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2005
Craig Lawrence Koehrsen, East Peoria, IL (US);
William Charles Sahm, Dunlap, IL (US);
Craig Lawrence Koehrsen, East Peoria, IL (US);
William Charles Sahm, Dunlap, IL (US);
Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies, LLC, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for sharing terrain data among one or more machines include a communications system associated with the one or more machines in electronic communication with each other and to a communications system associated with a remote location. The terrain data may be determined from information received from satellite positioning systems. New information comprising alterations to a worksite by one or more machines may be stored as a snippet. Collected snippets may be combined to form a data block which is sent to one or more identified machines. A bitmap, corresponding to each snippet, is sent to the one or more identified machines in order to locate the new information in the data block. Using the new information, the one or more identified machines may update a composite model of the worksite located at each of the one or more identified machines.