Ex Parte MAXWELL et al - Page 8




              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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