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

  • US 7,898,415 B2
  • Filed: 10/27/2005
  • Issued: 03/01/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computerized method of reporting a location and a status for a container handler, comprising the step of operating a micro-controller module further comprising the steps of:

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

    using a means for wireless determining location to communicate said sensed state of said container handler, with said means for wirelessly determining implementing means for providing timed signal bursts to multiple antenna sites to support determining said location and a radio location-tag unit;

    wherein said container handler moves a container at least twenty feet in length.

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