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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2008
George William Erhart, Loveland, CO (US);
Valentine C. Matula, Granville, OH (US);
David Joseph Skiba, Golden, CO (US);
David S. Mohler, Arvada, CO (US);
George William Erhart, Loveland, CO (US);
Valentine C. Matula, Granville, OH (US);
David Joseph Skiba, Golden, CO (US);
David S. Mohler, Arvada, CO (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system is disclosed that features a transport vehicle that carries responsive objects in which the objects are equipped to provide state information about their states when queried. The transport vehicle is outfitted with a proxy that represents the responsive objects. The proxy is configured such that it is better able than the responsive objects to receive state query signals from a querying device. The vehicle is also outfitted with I) sensors that detect the responsive objects and ii) sensors that detect state information of the vehicle, in which both sets of sensors provide information to the proxy. The object sensors are able to detect the state of each responsive object or query the object about its state in the same way as the querying device would query those objects in the prior art. The proxy then responds to the query on behalf of the responsive objects.