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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2008
Christopher A. Foster, Akron, PA (US);
Riccardo Morselli, Spilamberto, IT;
Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Zedelgem, BE;
Guoping Wang, Naperville, IL (US);
Bart M. A. Missotten, Herent, BE;
Bert Juul Frans Paquet, Bruges, BE;
John H. Posselius, Ephrata, PA (US);
Christopher A. Foster, Akron, PA (US);
Riccardo Morselli, Spilamberto, IT;
Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Zedelgem, BE;
Guoping Wang, Naperville, IL (US);
Bart M. A. Missotten, Herent, BE;
Bert Juul Frans Paquet, Bruges, BE;
John H. Posselius, Ephrata, PA (US);
CNH America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for enabling the communication to and establishment among a plurality of generally like and like-purpose agricultural machines designed to perform generally similar agricultural operations within a given area generally like performance parameters, especially based upon the performance parameters of a particular agricultural machine that is considered or deemed to be the expert or exemplar machine, which system and method employ short range communications systems included in or associated with the operating systems of the individual agricultural machines to effect the distribution of the exemplar performance parameters to the plurality of agricultural machines, through a peer-to-peer wireless network between and among the plurality of agricultural machines for point-to-point communications, for use by the individual agricultural machines in controlling and performing the agricultural operation.