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Method and apparatus using radio-location tags to report status for a container handler

  • US 7,679,513 B2
  • Filed: 02/01/2008
  • Issued: 03/16/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a micro-controller module for use on a top handler communicatively coupled to a means for optically sensing a container code of a container being handled by said top handler to create an optical container characteristic including at least one member of a container code characteristic collection, and communicatively coupled to at least one of a means for wirelessly communicating said optical container characteristic, and a means for wirelessly determining location;

    wherein said micro-controller module includes a computer;

    said computer further includes at least one member of a list comprising an instruction processor, an inferential engine, a neural network, and a finite state machine;

    wherein said instruction processor includes at least one instruction processing element and at least one data processing element;

    wherein each of said data processing elements is controlled by at least one of said instruction processing elementsand said instruction processor is accessibly coupled to a memory and said instruction processor is directed by a program system including program steps residing in said memory; and

    wherein said finite state machine includes at least one of;

    means for using a means for sensing a state of said top handler to create a sensed state;

    means for using said means for wireless communicating to communicate said sensed state of said top handler.

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