Appeal No. 1999-0172
Application 08/334,733
lines 11 through 14; and column 3, lines 6 through 10). The
system includes mobile tracking units 10 on each vehicle 12, a
GPS communications link 14, and a remote control station 18
having display devices for showing the locations of the
vehicles.
Alesio discloses a vehicle theft detection system wherein
each vehicle is equipped with a vehicle monitoring unit which
when activated monitors a current stationary position of the
vehicle and automatically transmits GPS derived position
signals to a remote dispatch center upon movement of the
vehicle beyond a range of movement preselected by the vehicle
operator.
Conceding that each of these primary references fails to
meet the error correction limitations in claims 1, 10 and/or
27, the examiner has concluded that it would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art to provide each primary
reference with error correction features of the sort claimed
in view of either Mansell or Bickley in order to increase the
accuracy of the GPS derived locations (see pages 8 through 11
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