Vehicle tracking unit providing direction deviation tracking and related methods
AssigneeOmega Patents, L.L.C.
InventorKenneth E. Flick
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Abstract
A vehicle tracking unit may include a vehicle position determining device, a wireless communications device, and a controller for cooperating with the vehicle position determining device to determine vehicle position information based upon the vehicle changing a direction of travel by greater than a threshold. Moreover, the controller may also cooperate with the wireless communications device to send the vehicle position information to a monitoring station based upon each occurrence of the vehicle changing the direction of travel by greater than the threshold.
Claims53
A vehicle tracking unit comprising:
- a vehicle position determining device;
- a wireless communications device;
- and
- a controller cooperating with said vehicle position determining device to determine vehicle position information based upon the vehicle changing a direction of travel by greater than a threshold;
- said controller also cooperating with said wireless communications device to send the vehicle position information to a monitoring station based upon each occurrence of the vehicle changing the direction of travel by greater than the threshold.
A vehicle tracking unit comprising:
- a vehicle position determining device;
- a wireless communications device;
- and
- a controller cooperating with said vehicle position determining device to determine vehicle position information based upon the vehicle changing a direction of travel by greater than a threshold and then at least one of continuing in the changed direction for greater than a predetermined period and continuing in the changed direction at greater than a predetermined speed;
- said controller also cooperating with said wireless communications device to send the vehicle position information to a monitoring station based upon each occurrence of the vehicle changing the direction of travel by greater than the threshold.
A vehicle tracking unit comprising:
- a vehicle position determining device;
- a wireless communications device;
- and
- a controller cooperating with said vehicle position determining device to determine vehicle position information based upon the vehicle changing a direction of travel by greater than a threshold;
- said controller also storing the vehicle position information based upon each occurrence of the vehicle changing the direction of travel by greater than the threshold.
A vehicle tracking method comprising:
- determining vehicle position information using a vehicle tracking unit carried by the vehicle based upon the vehicle changing a direction of travel by greater than a threshold;
- and
- sending the vehicle position information from the vehicle tracking unit to a monitoring station based upon at least one occurrence of the vehicle changing the direction of travel by greater than the threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.