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US 11,696,528 B2Granted
Settings propagation and synchronization across mobile work machines
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorMichael J. Hodson
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Abstract
A data propagation system stores operator/machine/implement combinations, and corresponding settings data indicative of settings on the machine or implement for the corresponding combination. When a machine is connected to an implement, an identity of an operator is detected, along with an identity of the machine and an identity of the implement. The data propagation system determines whether settings data is available for that operator/machine/implement combination. If so, the settings data is obtained and the machine and implement are automatically controlled based upon the retrieved settings data.
Claims20
An agricultural equipment control system comprising:
- a first data store, of a particular implement, configured to store a first set of data records, each data record, in the first set of data records, including a set of settings data that identifies machine settings corresponding to a particular operator/particular machine/particular implement combination;
- a second data store, of a particular machine, configured to store a second set of data records, each data record, in the second set of data records, including a set of settings data that identifies machine settings corresponding to a particular operator/particular machine/particular implement combination;
- a connection detector configured to detect connection of the particular machine, being operated by a particular operator, to the particular implement and generates a connection signal based on the detected connection;
- a data synchronization system configured to, based on the connection signal, identify one or more data records from the first set of data records missing from the second set of data records and to identify one or more data records from the second set of data records missing from the first set of data records and to synchronize the first data store by uploading the one or more data records from the second set of data records to the first data store and to synchronize the second data store by uploading the one or more data records from the first set of data records to the second data store;
- a data search system configured to search the synchronized second data store to identify a matching data record corresponding to a combination of the particular operator, the particular machine and the particular implement;
- a data selection system configured to obtain the set of settings data corresponding to the matching data record;
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- a control system configured to control the agricultural equipment based on the set of settings data corresponding to the matching data record.
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A computer implemented method of controlling a piece of agricultural equipment, the computer implemented method comprising:
- storing data records, each data record including a set of settings data that identifies machine settings corresponding to a particular operator/particular machine/particular implement combination;
- detecting connection of a particular agricultural machine, being operated by a particular operator, to a particular implement;
- generating a connection signal based on the detected connection;
- identifying, based on the connection signal, data records of a first data store on the implement to be synchronized with the agricultural machine and data records of a second data store on the agricultural machine to be synchronized with the implement;
- synchronizing the identified data records;
- searching one of the first data store or the second data store to identify a matching data record corresponding to a combination of the particular operator, the particular machine and the particular implement;
- obtaining the set of settings data corresponding to the matching data record;
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- controlling the agricultural equipment based on the set of settings data corresponding to the matching data record.
6 more elements
An agricultural system comprising:
- a data store, on a particular implement, configured to store data records, each data record including a set of settings data that identifies machine settings corresponding to a particular operator/particular machine/particular implement combination;
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- at least one processor, separate from the particular implement, configured to:
- detect connection of the particular agricultural machine having a particular machine identifier (machine ID), being operated by a particular operator having a particular operator identifier (operator ID), to a particular implement having a particular implement identifier (implement ID);
- generate a connection signal based on the detected connection;
- search, over a wired communication link, the data store to identify a matching data record corresponding to a combination of the particular operator, the particular machine and the particular implement based on the operator ID, the machine ID, and the implement ID;
- obtain the set of settings data corresponding to the matching data record;
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- control agricultural equipment based on the set of settings data corresponding to the matching data record.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.