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Mobile reporting module employing timing and message consolidation to economize transmissions

US6990336B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 29, 2001
Grant dateJan 24, 2006
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Expiry dateOct 19, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W60/04
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A remote, electronic, mobile reporting module conserves wireless transmissions in its reporting to a monitoring facility. The time at which certain messages are sent is used to convey added information. Also, when coverage is unknown, the remote module incorporates data into a coverage query in order to save the need to subsequently transmit the data in the event the monitoring facility confirms coverage.

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