Appeal No. 1999-0526
Application No. 08/581,937
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to an itinerary monitoring system which logs
position and time data for a complete itinerary and transmits the data at the completion of
the itinerary. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. An itinerary monitoring apparatus attached to a mobile object,
comprising:
a satellite navigation receiver for computing the current geographic
position of the mobile object;
a memory;
a controller for storing in the memory a plurality of successive
itinerary data points at intervals throughout the itinerary of the mobile object,
wherein each successive itinerary data point includes a successive position
computed by the navigation receiver and a time of day corresponding to that
position; and
a radio transceiver for receiving and transmitting messages by radio
communication, wherein the transceiver transmits an itinerary data
message containing a number of the itinerary data points stored in the
memory.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Aspell et al. (Aspell) 4,908,629 Mar. 13, 1990
Landt et al. (Landt) 5,030,807 Jul. 09, 1991
Mansell et al. (Mansell) 5,223,844 Jun. 29, 1993
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