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Control, monitoring and/or security apparatus and method

  • US 20030206102A1
  • Filed: 04/23/2003
  • Published: 11/06/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A control apparatus, comprising:

  • a memory device associated with a first control device, wherein the memory device stores a limitation or a restriction for allowing or prohibiting at least one of a control operation, a monitoring operation, and a security operation, regarding at least one of a vehicle, a vehicle system, a vehicle equipment system, a vehicle equipment, a vehicle component, a vehicle device, and a vehicle accessory, wherein the limitation or restriction is automatically received from a communication device associated with at least one of a vehicle owner, a vehicle user, and an authorized individual, wherein the first control device is located at a location remote from the vehicle;

    wherein the first control device receives a first control signal from a second control device, wherein the first control signal contains information regarding at least one of a control operation, a monitoring operation, and a security operation, regarding at least one of a vehicle, a vehicle system, a vehicle equipment system, a vehicle equipment, a vehicle component, a vehicle device, and a vehicle accessory, wherein the second control device is located at a location remote from the first control device and remote from the vehicle, wherein the first control device determines if the at least one of a control operation, a monitoring operation, and a security operation, regarding the at least one of a vehicle, a vehicle system, a vehicle equipment system, a vehicle equipment, a vehicle component, a vehicle device, and a vehicle accessory, is allowed or disallowed, and if allowed, the first control device at least one of generates a second control signal and transmits a second control signal to a third control device located at the vehicle, and further wherein the third control device generates a third control signal in response to the second control signal, wherein the third control signal at least one of activates, deactivates, enables, disables, and controls, the at least one of a vehicle, a vehicle system, a vehicle equipment system, a vehicle equipment, a vehicle component, a vehicle device, and a vehicle accessory.

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