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Wireless location assisted zone guidance system

  • US 10,080,346 B2
  • Filed: 10/23/2017
  • Issued: 09/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wireless location assisted zone guidance system adapted to assist in the training and management of an animal, having a collar, a wireless location determination apparatus configured to generate a current latitude and current longitude of a current geographic location of said collar, at least one animal stimulation apparatus carried by said collar, a processor coupled to said wireless location determination apparatus and operative to receive said current latitude and said current longitude information therefrom, memory accessible by said processor, a human interface, and a plurality of guidance zones defined using said latitude and longitude information, each one of said plurality of guidance zones having an associated unique set of characteristics used by said processor to provide behavioral guidance stimulation to said animal through said animal stimulation apparatus, wherein the improvement comprises:

  • a data table that is stored in said memory, has a pair of indices, and contains a plurality of unique locations within said data table that are populated with a plurality of guidance zone values;

    a first one of said pair of indices corresponding to longitude;

    a second one of said pair of indices corresponding to said latitude;

    said pair of indices in combination identifying a single one of said plurality of unique locations within said data table;

    each one of said plurality of unique locations within said data table that is also within a one of said plurality of assisted guidance zones storing an individual one of said plurality of guidance zone values;

    individual ones of said guidance zone values stored in said data table identifying individual ones of said plurality of guidance zones,wherein said processor is configured to retrieve a guidance zone value stored in said data table at a single data table location defined by a first index value corresponding with said current longitude and a second index value corresponding with said current latitude and use said associated unique set of characteristics to provide behavioral guidance stimulation to said animal through said animal stimulation apparatus.

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