System and method employing short range communications for establishing performance parameters of an exemplar agricultural machine among a plurality of like-purpose agricultural machines

US8175775B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CNH AMERICA LLC · US

Inventors

• Christopher A. Foster · Shillington, US
• Riccardo Morselli · Spilamberto, IT
• Olivier Arnel Vanhercke · Nieuwpoort, BE
• Guoping Wang · Naperville, US
• Bart M.A. Missotten · Herent, BE
• Bert Juul Frans Paquet · Brugge, BE
• John H. Posselius · Ephrata, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 11, 2008
• Grant date: May 8, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 9, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01B79/005
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

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.