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Ensuring the performance of mandated inspections combined with the collection of ancillary data

  • US 20060081697A1
  • Filed: 10/11/2005
  • Published: 04/20/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing a record on a portable device that a location was visited during an inspection, while contemporaneously collecting ancillary data on the portable device, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) enabling an operator to move the portable device proximate the location;

    (b) in response to the portable device being moved proximate the location, automatically producing a record stored within the portable device that the portable device was proximate the location, said record providing evidence that the operator was sufficiently close to the location to perform an inspection at the location; and

    (c) further in response to the portable device being moved proximate the location, automatically transferring and storing the ancillary data in the recording device, said ancillary data having been collected by a data collection device disposed proximate the location.

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