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US 7,940,173 B2Granted
Dynamically configurable wireless device
AssigneeWebtech Wireless Inc.
InventorRobert John Koen
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Abstract
A wireless device for facilitating for GPS-based asset tracking via a wireless communications network and a centralized management system. The wireless device includes dynamically configurable event profiles which allow the wireless device to be dynamically reconfigured and to perform certain actions based on a dynamically configurable combination of received events.
Claims23
A method of dynamically operating a locator device, comprising the steps of:
- a. defining a plurality of events where each of said events represents an operational condition of said locator device;
- b. defining a plurality of triggers where each of said triggers is a dynamically configurable contemporaneously occurring combination of said events;
- c. defining a plurality of event profiles where each of said event profiles is a user-configurable dynamic association between
- i. one of said triggers;
- and
- ii. a dynamically configurable set of device commands;
- d. responding to a contemporaneously occurring subset of said events by evaluating said contemporaneously occurring subset of said events against said triggers of each of said event profiles;
- e. activating one of said event profiles by processing said set of device commands corresponding to said event profile whenever said contemporaneously occurring subset of said events corresponds to said trigger of said event profile;
- wherein said set of device commands changes a configuration parameter of said locator device.
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A dynamically operable locator device comprising:
- a) a definition of a plurality of events where each of said events represents an operational condition of said locator device;
- b) a definition of a plurality of triggers where each of said triggers is a dynamically configurable contemporaneously occurring combination of said events;
- c) a definition of a plurality of event profiles where each of said event profiles is a user-configurable dynamic association between:
- i) one of said triggers;
- and
- ii) a dynamically configurable set of device commands;
- d) means for responding to a contemporaneously occurring subset of said events by evaluating said contemporaneously occurring subset of said events against said triggers of each of said event profiles;
- e) means for activating one of said event profiles by processing said set of device commands corresponding to said event profile whenever said contemporaneously occurring subset of said events corresponds to said trigger of said event profile;
- wherein said set of device commands changes a configuration parameter of said dynamically operable locator device.
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A method of dynamically operating a locator device associated with a vehicle, where the operation of the locator device is configurable and is used in conjunction with a GPS system, comprising the steps of:
- a) defining a plurality of events wherein each event represents an operational condition of said locator device;
- b) defining a plurality of triggers wherein each trigger is a dynamically configurable contemporaneously occurring combination of a subset of said events and wherein said combination is implemented by
- i) defining the occurrence of a sufficient event to be an event for which, upon detection, causes the locator device to perform an action or to change its configuration;
- ii) defining the occurrence of necessary events to be two or more events which, upon detection of their simultaneous occurrence, causes the locator device to perform an action or to change its configuration;
- c) defining a plurality of event profiles wherein each event profiles is a user-configurable dynamic association between:
- i) one said trigger;
- and
- ii) a dynamically configurable plurality of device commands wherein each device command instructs the locator device to perform an action or to change the locator device configuration;
- d) detecting the occurrence of one said trigger and responding thereto by activating the associated event profile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.