Appeal No. 2002-0662 Page 8
Application No. 09/099,963
to be programmed by connecting it to the monitoring/programming terminal. The
personal data of the wearer are stored in the beacon memory. A series of zone
programs are downloaded from the terminal. These zone programs contain data
defining the areas in which the wearer may be and those areas which the wearer is not
to enter.
A mobile terminal is Fast's preferred primary terminal. It consists of a cellular
phone, a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, and a computer with keypad to
allow beacon programming. It can display on its screen a map layout, and it has the
capability for automatic scaling of the map to display simultaneously its own position
and the position of the beacon on the same map. Fast teaches (column 5, lines 23-30)
that
[a]utomatic scaling of the displayed map and determination of the position
of the mobile terminal on the map provides for easy tracking of a person or
object wearing the beacon, even while the terminal and the beacon are moving.
Automatic scaling and position determination of the mobile terminal and the
beacon eliminate the need for interpretation of map coordinates and manual
control of scaling and panning of the displayed map.
Endo
Endo discloses a navigation apparatus which can search out, even if a vehicle
goes off of a guide route, a route which allows the vehicle to return to the guide route so
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