REAL-TIME, SELF-DIRECTING UPDATING OF ASSET STATE

• US 20120151031A1
• Filed: 11/22/2010
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Startrak Information Technologies LLC (ORBCOMM Incorporated), STK Acquisition, LLC
• Original Assignee: Startrak Information Technologies LLC (ORBCOMM Incorporated)
• Inventors: Karuppanan, Venkateswaran, Perten, Herbert, Robinson, Thomas A., Slifkin, Timothy P.
• Application Number:
  US12/952,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20120151031A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

A system allows a remote asset, via an Intelligent Device and interconnected Central Data Server to autonomously, and continuously monitor and update its status on various parameters; and from these, to calculate an overall asset state that may be caused by various combinations of the parameters.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a remote asset having via an intelligent device for autonomously, and continuously monitor and update its status on various parameters; and

an interconnected central data server to calculate an overall asset state that may be caused by various combinations of the parameters monitored by the intelligent device.

2. A method, comprising:

with an intelligent device for autonomously and continuously monitoring and updating its status on various parameters of a remote asset; and

with an interconnected central data server calculating an overall asset state that may be caused by various combinations of the parameters monitored by the intelligent device.