Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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AUTOMATED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM THAT VALUES,
CONTROLS, RECORDS AND BILLS THE USES OF
EQUIPMENT/VEHICLES FOR SOCIETY
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Applications
Nos. 60/071,392, filed
January 15, 1998 ( 112756-201 ), 60/089,783, filed June 18, 1998 ( 112756-
300), incorporated herein by
reference. This application is related to U.S. Patent Application No.
081975,140, filed November 20, 1997,
and PCT Application No. PCT/US 97/21516, filed on November 24, 1997, which
claim priority to U.S.
Provisional Patent Application No. 60/032,217 filed on December 2, 1996, all
of which are hereby
incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Field of the Invention
This invention addresses environmental, social and commercial uses of a
monitoring system. The
monitoring system include, a network of on, in; out, and off board devices
working together with people
through software and interfaces to provide services and make machines and
their actions accountable,
through safe, secure communication and control devices in real time. The
invention is designed to account
for all machines vehicles and equipment and their socio-economic and
environmental impact world wide.
Along with this completely described system is additional devices networked
together and
variations of hardware, firmware and software needed to complete these
operations locally, nationally, and
around the globe. These devices and systems are completely described within
this application, and the
other two related applications incorporated herein by reference.
Figure 1 is a key-coded flowchart diagram explicitly designed to state all the
PFN functions from
the invention's earlier patent control system embodiment (WO 98/24664 and
PCT/CJS97/21516) stop box,
black box which is combined presently with this billing box function designed
to retrieve machine data
to receive payment for machine use or account for impact fees to the
individual, any commercial interests,
the environment, and or for all levels of government to monitor, to cost, to
report to the public, and/or
manage machine use world wide socio-economically and environmentally.
Figure 2 is a diagram displaying satellite technologies, G.P.S.,
communications, land-based phone
systems and all wireless communication devices tied together to help keep
track of the use of equipment
worldwide and to link government, people and commercial interests in a
coordinated, socially-responsible
system.
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Figure 2a is a list or directory of government agencies that are already
designed to issue their mass
data back to the web account pages that this invention creates through its
ability to acquire machine data
and deliver it to these agencies and thereby allow them to due their
government functions and report their
gathered data and activities to the public, commercial interests and
government on the specialized web
pages described in this application (for local, state, regional, national
and/or globally, if sanctioned).
Figure 2b is an illustration that shows the invention and its explicit
capability, as has always been
stated from the first patent to monitor and control humanities equipment,
machines vehicles and
environment to provide a better social, economic, and a more informed public
governance for every facet
of technical and equipment use.
Figure 3 is the add-on billing box system designed to initially receive
payment for use of
equipment and to due it through credit card billing. However, this system is
the precursor of the OEM
factory primary focal nodes that will be a part of all of humanity's machinery
along with personal and
environmental PFNs to help humanity assess and account for the use of
resources and impact of all
equipment on the world.
Figure 3a is an extension of Figure 3 and it illustrates how a card swipe is
used and incorporated
in the billing box or any PFN to enter credit card data into the MMN and
account for any machine uses
economically. The card swipe illustrates how all the devices can be coupled
and or interfaced and have
their manufacture software installed into the PFN for securing their interface
to a host piece of machinery
and deliver a specific data input or service under the electronic control of
the processor in the PFN.
Figure 4 is a example drawing of the function of a standard PFN secure box
structure and a detail
of the physical properties that are desirable to create the PFN interface to
perform a!I the accountable
functions of communications data storage remote control in the standard sedan.
It is not the only
configuration the invention will be and the description of the structure and
materials are meant to also
illustrate the concept of a secure environment for all these sensitive
expensive electronical devices and
critical accountable devices to monitor and control humanities equipment,
machinery and/or vehicles.
Figure 5 is a cutaway view of the secure box illustrating the mobility of the
shelves and or trays
that hold the interfaced devices as well as a structural illustration of a
suggested design for the PFN
secure containment in a sedan as pictured in the dash shown in Figure 4.
Figure 6 is a diagram of three shelves that are on rollers and powered to
eject and retract inside
the secure PFN interface and it also shows a suggested arrangement of
protected PFN devices, secured
customer preferred C.O.T.S. products, and a power tray as a good possible
device array for a PFN.
Figure 7 is a parts combination map of device coupling for the prototypes of
the PFN's
components. It is also to show the varied level of commercial developments in
a general way. Most all
devices couple together or interface from left to right and the sophistication
of the technology goes from
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the most simplistic, at the top of the page, to the most complex, at the
bottom of the diagram. This is
only a general rule as their are a multitude of combinations that will
function well to perform many and
most all necessary task by different combinations. The device combining
criterion is basically cost and
efficiency for purpose and function desired.
Figures 8-12 show the Mac, PC, PS2 keyboard, mouse, and serial ports and, in
fact, the next S
to 7 Figures are just to name the standard computer connection, e.g.,
SCSI,IEEE 1394 and the new
interfaces, IrDA ports, like in Figure 11, as well as, other electronic and
automotive connectors in Figure
12. All of these physical connections are all utilized for many of the
peripherals and for the many varied
PFN configurations.
Figure 13 is the standard cordless phone short-range interface as has been
described earlier as
an optional PFN interface. The drawing is an illustration of another use with
a cordless phone and a
laptop or palm top to get on land phone lines for data transfer without a
hard, i.e., connected to the wall.
There are two drawings, one pictorial and the other a block circuit drawing,
with two options, A or B.
Figure 14 is a personal locator belt that illustrates a G.P.S. system coupled
to a reflex pager for
registering and reporting a person's geographic location on a page request to
at least one remote location.
The present invention uniquely interfaces (on board) a network of separate
devices and or
interfaced IC circuits together, to create a "Primary Focal Node" (PFN)
(ultimately in some form on
every piece of equipment in the world). This is an interactive control center
(ideally secured and
protected) and connected to many peripheral devices and sensors, that can be
remotely controlled and
monitored from the (PFN). The (PFN) is able to, record and play back various
data of different
mediums, report this data back, or communicate it with off board "Gateways" to
computer networks (like
servers on the WWW) and/or receive from these Gateway servers commands to
restrict unauthorized,
and or affect normal uses of the vehicle/equipment in relationship to its cost
and legitimate operation to
society and the environment, and or regulate the vehicle to a compliance level
to meet with any legal
parameters and or commercial contractual agreements in real time. The present
invention also uniquely
provides a control device for society to fairly and accurately monitor and
control the impact of equipment
use on the world's environment and a nation's infrastructure.
The invention's (PFN) on board will provide the initial technical processes
and hardware to fulfill
these needs and services for the equipment and the people, who own and operate
them for today and into
the future, The total invention is designed to be a set of secure devices and
systems interfaced on and
off board to analyze society and machine interaction, and to safeguard this
world's environment, which
is the physical support system of humanities existence.
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The invention comprises hardware, hardware embedded software (firmware),
software
programming, peripherals device and sensors on board and communication devices
and computer
network systems offboard to do this monitoring and accounting business in a
realistic and fair manner
socially and economically. The invention is a composite of a number unique
innovations that also
interface uniquely with other commercial products to develop a complete and
thorough accounting
system, which is completely described in this application and the related
filings.
A great deal of explanation is necessary to explain how the world's societies
can utilize the total
invention system in an optimal manner. So this discussion is based on
humanities state of existence
technically and socially and how the invention can best be a tool for
societies to fairly make and assess
their decisions crucial to a healthy existence presently and into the future.
'This summary of the invention
will address accountability, responsibility and freedoms, as it pertains to
world's societies, commerce,
and the environment.
The present invention accomplishes the accounting and service tasks, by
performing them in an
efficient, economically expanding, but money saving and responsible manner.
The general purpose and
scope of this invention is to automate a data collection process, through two-
way communication, that
controls an onboard network of devices, sensors, machines, and to utilize data
gathered from each
machine's Primary Focal Node (PFN) to appraise it's impact and affect on the
environment world wide
and on any nations infrastructure. The present invention also provides
software systems and support
people to form the necessary set of mechanical and system structures for
humanity to control its
machines and its economy from now long into the future in a secure manner
(i.e., technically, socially,
and physically).
Newly created industries (e.g., commercial businesses evolutions), all
technical devices and their
interfaces, as well as any integrated circuit evolution for onboard, outboard
and off board systems (e.g.,
hardware, firmware, software interfaced C.O.T.S. and personnel) to implement
the present invention will
be completely described and illustrated as the invention relates to these
socio-economic and
environmental goals.
Examples of goals include: conserving and using the world's materials and
energy sources and
resources intelligently and fairly to insure peace in the world, while
accounting for that use and any and
alI impact on this world's environment and humanity's general health
physically, socio-emotionally and
economically; also, to help provide, organization and control for the
maintenance of individually free,
lawful and secure societies world wide; to join individuals and their nation
states and societies with an
accurate understanding of their physical world and their impact on it and each
other; and to provide more
safe convenient and unintrusive and or individually respective services
through new products and
innovative uses of already existing technologies to improve the quality of
life.
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accounting tool to evaluate
and bill for the use of resources and provide a fair impact fee system for
societies infrastructures as well
as create an economic structure and device to fairly bill other safer and less
toxic energy sources and
systems. The invention's control system is a necessary technical evolution
that can adjust the worlds
economic tool, while helping to assure the least disruptive socio-economic
path for a healthy and stable
environment. For this to happen it is necessary to evaluate and account for
all the use and impact for any
and all energy sources as they are used in real time by all of humanity world
wide.
Ultimately secure devices and secure communication are extremely necessary for
the systems
to have credibility and be respected for their accuracy and fair reporting.
For this reason it is important
that the accounting process be as secure as possible. The invention's secure
(PFN} secure box and off=
board systems(continuation from the earlier patent) can serve as an ideal
economic transition device or
tool, for the replacement of a gallon of gas, a barrel of oil or the tons of
coal and coke, which are the
measured products of fossil fuel industries that power the industrial nations
and their economies. The
world seems determined and destined to reduce it's dependancy on these
products. And having options
is the best form of security to calm real fears for scarcities for what ever
reason. Having a way to
measure use and impact has been a real major drawback to other energy sources
especially some of the
new ones, which will utilize readily available compounds and elements found in
nature, world wide.
So how can they be economically regulated and made part of the economic tool
and it's tax base?
Oil products as unsafe as they are to transport, store, and use are easy to
account for in charging and
taxing for their use. For this reason the exploration and exploitation of
different energy systems and
technologies are forced to stay on the back burner, especially for mobile
vehicles and equipment. It is
important to remember individuals and their societies can make good changes
and bad changes and good
changes require knowledge and thoughtfulness on the economic impacts as well
as the environmental
impacts. It is important to have order and control when there is any change in
the world's economic tool
and the world presently has an oil-based economy.
However, with a desired change on the horizon, this is the perfect time to
commercialize the
invention as a transition system and ultimately as a permanent system for
humanity to evaluate, appraise
and control all of it's technology into the future. Before this time the
inventions technology would be
too expensive for any individual mobile piece of equipment. But presently,
with all the merging
technologies and new services and innovative products linking
telecommunication, interactive highways,
smart cars and automated robotics systems along with personal computers and
global positioning systems
and the tremendous development in standard automobiles, as well as a deepening
concern for the world's
environment, the time is absolutely right for this network remote control data
record and accounting
system that offers security, organization, accountability and a host of new
services and products to the
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economies of the world presently, and will help for any secure merging or
trusted interaction in the
future. With the present developments in machine messaging and the latest
energy sources and power
train developments with electric vehicles, e.g., Electric Wheel, GM's EV 1
cars are provided a most
important ingredient for their economic acceptance "accountability controls"
for their responsible use
in and of a societies environment and infrastructure. And it is a mistake to
believe these new
technologies will not bring their hazard environmentally as well, e.g.,
leaking, and gassing battery
contents, etc. So the remote control monitoring recording and accounting will
provide stability during
this very necessary evolution for mobile platforms and stationary equipment
and also to monitor the
environmental impact of fossil fueled equipment. And finally, even if they are
dependent on nuclear
energy or electrical service the monitor, control and recording system of the
invention will be able to
report to society all the gathered data necessary to appraise and evaluate
these use and impact costs.
On each individual piece of equipment, the secured (PFN) is linked to the
invention's peripheral
sensor system and processes pertinent data on each individual host machinery
and transmits it to local,
nationwide and worldwide computer processing and mass data storage devices for
the environment, for
traffic data, for law enforcement, etc., where it is evaluated in real time
and processed according to
predetermined software programs at all the above-mentioned levels.
For example, if it was an environmental data link evaluating the impacts of
new energy sources
any trial and error negative impacts on the environment and or any chosen
commercial direction could
be determined quickly to reduce the cost to everyone. The entire invention
will allow; the public,
commercial energy systems and resource suppliers ,other commercial service
suppliers and government
a new device and system to fairly revenue and be costed accurately and account
for all use and impact
of the worlds resources, materials and a society's infrastructure.
The invention's control system is needed and is being brought out and
commercialized in a
timely and responsible fashion so as not to rock the economic structure of the
world as driven by fossil
fuels. But to marry with these present systems and allow for timely world,
national, commercial and
public change with stability in all the economic markets and the public and
private companies that will
be affected.
The final aspect to keep in mind with this invention's impact is an awareness
for all humanity
to realize that a changing economic base can be an expanding economy and in
this case change does not
have to spell scarcity and disparity to any individual or business in
existence now and/or into the future.
However, humanity's intellect and growth has always performed optimally when
coupled with flexibility
in any socio-economic change, which is directly proportional to it's survival.
And it is crucial that every
individual be as responsible as possible in these changes and the use of all
these interfaced technologies.
And not just be driven by self interests, but remain always cognizant to those
whom their actions will
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S impact. However, this is quite impossible to achieve if they are not aware
of their impact and not in
communication with others and all their machines to reduce any synergistic
affects world wide. This is
the major function of the invention for society . To keep social awareness
involved with private interest,
at an individual level, while providing a basis for a fair exchange and
knowledge.
The direction for economic growth and or individual financial success should
be one that
improves the quality of all life and preserves economic stability, and by any
means does not disadvantage
or disrespect others or the environment. This requires accountability for
everything humanity does or
does not do as a whole and or individually. With accountability insured by
real accurate and up to date
knowledge, society in mass can be very efficient in all the decisions
regarding how to do all it's business
together with it's technology and life. But it is extremely important that
this be accomplished with less
economic disruption and deceptive behavior, which has plagued humanity in the
past as a necessary evil
to give some base order to our societies in the way we account exchange
provisions between individuals.
Presently, the world only has receivable values and is unaware of the cost
values as a group or
individually in many cases. It is important to have all the data so all
individuals can appreciate the
world's spread sheet and understand bottom line issues that affect everyone.
There needs to be good communicative working relationships between all parties
so that business
can give good and necessary services, while goven;unents can oversee and
support a healthy commercial
environment, and insure a fair and healthy interaction or interchange between
the public and the business
community, as well as, all branches of government itself. The present
invention's purpose and design
is to address these fears and dispels phobias for the individual in a
socially, culturally, and economically
sound and responsible manner, so all of humanity can function well publicly,
governmentally,
environmentally, economically and/or commercially, provided the individuals
are all responsible and
stay "Critically Aware".
"We the People", the public, are all of these things and can continue, through
the invention, to
be empowered in the same manner as constitutionally guaranteed with the most
up-to-date data and
interactive communication system owned in part, individually, and publicly, as
well as, supported
commercially . This will enable us to open the correct opportunities for the
individual and society
through the ability to make efficient, intelligent, social, environmental,
technical decisions that are sound
commercial choices.
The major answer is fairness and for it to work presently it must be
accountable. The invention
achieves this goal on a planetary level by combining communication technology,
computer technology
and all industrial technologies into a monitoring and control system of
communicating equipment with
its societies. It accomplishes this from first data acquisition with the
invention's "primary focal nodes",
virtually on every piece of equipment. The primary nodes process and record
all types of data that impact
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the environment and/or have socio-economic importance. Then all forms of
commercial, private and
publicly owned communication devices are used to transfer and or copy data to
(gateways) for computer
networks, where it is processed and recorded in mass management and storage
systems, and if so deemed
proper at national levels, retransmitted to the world wide web where it is
presented to the public as ,world
and national web pages. Local web pages, and state web pages, are prepared at
their levels through the
area of data acquisition and approved through security protocols before they
are posted on the WWW
in their respective pages. Ultimately all knowledge could be freely available,
however, presently, the
inventions recognizes the need for national state security systems and
provides for editing protocols for
any national security agencies intervention before presenting it worldwide.
Ideally, knowledge and
individual development will replace real fears with the proper social
mechanisms to grow trust.
The web pages are tied together in a traditional web mosaic technology to
allow the individual
to surf and view all data as is used by governments and commercial interests
and respond directly to
issues at all the levels of interest and evolvement. This data would have many
informative tools to
explain terminology objectively in one section. And in another portion of each
page it would feature a
point of view section, where government officials would state their individual
positions on issues or raw
data interpretations, the same for industry, and the same for research and
educational organizations (by
individual) and the same for the general public. This portion of the invention
that provides feedback is
the Machine Messaging Network (MMN) and it's interface with the WWW completes
the accountability
function for all societies and individuals.
This invention is designed to enfranchise the individual into all local,
state, national, world issues
and give a real voice to the individual as policy is being determined. The
invention is also designed to
enhance the development of the individual to continue to improve the quality
of human existence on this
planet.
Through this invention's complete system, society can slow the blind random,
sometimes
deceptive and more often ignorant commercial attempts to develop economy or
control it or any specific
industry in an effort to gain market share and present a public image. Many
times these are false pursuits
and merely to create economy --which, granted could be necessary and serve a
timely economic purpose-
thus making them worthy in and of itself). But, in so many cases these
efforts, that are based on false
or superficial data, and better deserve the term scam, i.e., many present
pseudo-science projects, research
gmups and organizations involved with environmental protection. So, more
importantly, the invention
can give industries and governments real data, as well as in real time,
provide any investors which will
help insure and guide technical development through financial incentives to
use resources wisely, to meet
real informed and known needs, while being truthful to the public and suppling
real and needed desired
products and services. The invention can reduce any need to provide a false
economy by providing more
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real innovations and opportunities. And this provision of real and valuable
service for the growth of the
economy can remove the "soft money" of today and stop the buying of results by
funding and granting
research with money that has private interest origins as well as funding our
representatives with similar
political commercial goals. This "soft money" wilt be used to buy public
opinion or it will find a less
costly and more appropriate way to do business in a really free enterprise
system that integrates
everyone. The result at the very least is a reduction in generating waste and
misuse, or lack of use, of
all our resources. The invention can help to create a society intelligently,
empowered with accurate data
and awareness that could be coordinated eiTiciently in real time with
purposeful directions for enterprises
that can fulfill economic needs. The fact that these decisions would meet with
greater public awareness
that are geared to improve human life will guarantee more popular support and
commercial acceptance
to these market directions and their products for personal purchase and for
public investments, which
becomes a healthy, efficient and natural way the world and its populous
desires to conduct business.
Through this invention, all of society can work together to make changes
technically (while fully
understanding all the impacts of these changes, i.e., on commercial interests,
governments and personal
individuals). Everyone's point of view should be addressed and accounted for
in a deliberative process
as much as possible and as efficiently as possible.
World banking organizations, brokerage houses, various financial institutions
and stock markets
around the world can use the invention to help their investors market plan and
strategy as to trends and
socio-economic goals and environmental considerations to intelligently invest
in new and needed
markets through knowledge and skill to continue to grow the economy in a
healthy manner. In this way,
people can still vote financially and individually and the public companies
will be lobbying the public
more directly and our government representatives less as time goes on, which
can help to reduce the
present day election use of all the soft money.
The present invention begins to place monetary value in worthy directions and
uses our
economic tool to serve society, as well as the individual, more effciently. It
provides a modality for the
individual to be known and respected in a secure manner.
It also gives the individual personal understanding that we are all
responsible partners that can
make a difference, while profiting in a healthy combined coexistence with our
science and technology,
in respect to our society, economy and environment. The invention and this
social process make it
possible to more adequately give worth to the monetary value of wealth and it
can continue this service
with humanity through any necessary changes of our economic tool continuously
being tailored by
humanity's more emotionally developed descendants to best meet their needs in
the future.
The invention can monitor and insure that any agreed upon policy terms made in
conference
agreements between nations, and between commercial interests, are adhered to
in the most definitive
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presently fall pray to
corruption and crime that steals and markets away a nation's life essentials
and resources for growth,
while bullying and exploiting its populous. And it can also be used to help
provide the necessary
education and tools to achieve a better survival rate. The invention could aid
greatly in nation building
and to develop trust between all parties in an agreement to accurately
inventory and account for
10 provisions their movement and dispersement and monitor all these movements
for any sanctioned world
police force, that needed to interview in an area, where there was no or
unacceptable self autonomy and
plagued with savage and barbaric behavior that needed to be interrupted. By
being able to give order and
a organizational structure that could accountably in sure fairness time could
be bought to quell anger and
inform world opinion to best deal with any tyranny that was destroying a
nation and its people internally.
The invention's interactive capability can be also used to develop a
deliberative process with
society's elected representatives (Madisonian Democracy). The representatives
will be able to use the
web page feedback to make well-informed, but most importantly, representative
decisions in a timely
and expedient manner, regarding equipment /industrial/public/private use
geographically and worldwide,
along with representing the populous on contemporary issues presented on the
same web page, or
compiled into a E-mail format for the representative to review quickly
(described in the mass media and
web page section).
The invention could continue to evolve by incorporating more well-informed
individuals' instant
participation through the computers interactive medial, e.g, new Web TV's
Internet and other developing
inexpensive communication networks to a point where a society or all societies
would decide to operate
their secure issues monitoring and voting web as the means by which they
govern themselves and make
decisions, especially on local issues. This would be a departure from the
txaditional Madisonian
Democracy of representation to a more deliberative process for Democracy,
incorporating all individuals.
However, voting access through the invention would have to be insured, with
confidential, secure
personal identification numbers (PINs), coded to fingerprint conformation
scanners (no name record after
original approval). The fingerprint scanner would be attached to a pulse
detector to insure a live voter.
In addition, the present invention also provides a detailed description of the
national and world
uses. The present invention is coupled to the described data base systems of
management and storage
through commercial servers called "gateways". The invention will in real-time
gather data from
operating machines and equipment, and make available for analysis processing
and accounting of this
critical data which has been requested by any world community organizations
and has been sanctioned
for release by the specific individual nations, for the purpose of forming
issues for the world populous
to review and decide on.
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It is important to keep in mind that this invention is a versatile, composite
set of innovative
interfaces for existing products, devices, components, and net work
technologies that span the globe to
provide responsible and accountable remote control, in a progressive
customized manner, that can be
offered in the present, and is designed to stay current in the future. This is
a unique function that the
invention satisfies to be considered in a separate and unique category all its
own.
And in this process to develop responsible remote control from basic machine
messaging to full
robotics, many unique interfaced innovative products have been created and
developed and are also
described and commercially detailed for development in this application and
the other two filings.
The primary goal has been to provide innovative technical and commercial
options for
humanities industries to cost effectively provide the most accountable remote
control to this new
emerging technology of machine messaging by responsibly looking to the future,
and to marry the
invention to a free enterprise economy, guided by a free Democratic society
which can govern all its
technologies through a responsible, accountable and informative modality.
Once again, these systems and devices, for the most part, exist independently
now in
technologies in unrelated industries, and the specifics as to their coupling
and interfacing is described
in detail in this application. It is the unique combination of these devices
and systems, including the
hardware, firmware and software, to complete this needed human/machine network
link of interacting
monitoring and control components and systems that comprise the invention.
Both the individual and the public, "We the people", have to accept our
responsibility for our
freedom and with a free enterprise economy and insure that, the economy values
with responsibility and
respect the individual's rights of freedom, and in this case privacy.
This is the billing box function extended from the black and stop boxes of the
previous patent
application referenced above, incorporated herein by reference, which was
first employed and described
with the initial technical devices to work with any interactive highway
system/smart car development
to make accountable the vehicle and drivers actions to society, while
receiving payment for use of
equipment and all resulting impacts and ramifications.
This application's best mode of carrying out the invention incorporates, the
earlier stop box,
black box and this present billing box as an all inclusive secured Primary
Focal Node(PFN) that is
ultimately part of every piece of humanities equipment. It also completely
details the third embodiment
of the first application which was an off board control and monitoring system
that received reports from
the secure and recordable on-board remote control systems (PFN).
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S The first patent application detailed the private use of the smaller
operated remote control system
or network through standard commercial paging and cell phones system providers
whether they were
personal, private or commercially owned. They could be operated by a single
phone call or a control
center computer terminal node or gateway (commercial) to monitor and send
machine messaging to
locate and perform remote control functions.
It is the purpose of this application to focus on the networking of this first
commercial control
system as well as to network other similar technologies either onboard the
host machine being monitored
or into the larger off board control systems. The invention is designed
specifically to protect and secure
these functions. It also is designed to double as a platform to interface and
organize all these separate
devices and or their functions. This secured protected interfacing will be for
communication systems,
any utilized locating systems, control systems and total record and or data
storage systems. And this is
done to create a good working environment for all of these components. To
protect them from rough
service damage, deliberate tampering, theft, and to create as credible as
possible a secure accounting
device and system to appraise any user, or use cost for every piece of
equipment in the world. This is
intended for individuals governments, public or social groups, and or any
commercial enterprises. It is
intended to monitor and appraise any use of equipment.
To complete this accounting process all monitoring, communications and
controlling systems
that are involved in machine messaging presently will be networked together in
one modality just like
the World Wide Web (WWW) and also with the World Wide Web. This control system
network of
machine messaging (MMN) will play a direct part in providing up to date data
to public government web
pages to fulfill a fair accounting to the public. Many governments are
presently providing web pages
for public interaction already at the local, state and national levels.
In explaining the best mode to carry out the invention, all the hardware, firm
ware and software
possibilities for the on board (PFN) will be described and the off board
monitoring, control and
accounting systems will be described in the (MMN) and the (MMN\WWW)
interfaces. The (MMN) is
explained as to how it records and reports data to local, state and national
law enforcement through the
Justice Department's FBI Programs of mass data management and storage. Their
systems for the
Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the National Incident Based Reporting system
(NIBRS) the EPA's
State Environmental and Hazardous Materials Departments and National
Enforcement Investigations
Center (MICE) These two protocols are used to show how to create many
commercial interface service
products to complete the invention's highway safety and law enforcement
program (Spider Eyes) and
(Green Eyes) program, which is the environmental watch dog program.
The accompanying billing box function has the ability to give real-time
controls to any billing
and payment process and it is designed to be a secure and efficient process.
It will make it possible to
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pay with a credit or smart card system almost anywhere that the phone swipe
system is located either on
land lines or mobile applications.
These first described in, out, and off board hardware devices and software
support systems will
be the hardware containment, link-up of communication and software accounting
systems for
commercial server companies, and legal authorities to access and account for
the complete system
operations, remote service work, and guidance, while recording and reporting
this data and charges for
the environmental, socio-economic, and energy use impact. Environmental and
energy use impact
includes the wear and tear on roads and specifying the vehicles who are
responsible for that wear and
tear, while also identifying the geographic sections of highway involved, and
also valuing any driver and
equipment operational liability for insurance costing and evaluating, as well
as reporting, recording
accounting and controlling the legal operation of vehicles to complete the
black box function as already
described herein and in the previous applications listed above and
incorporated herein by reference.
The invention was also deliberately conceived and designed to fulfill this
purpose for all the new
energy systems and powerirains that have no good or any material products that
can be commercialized
to operate machines (e.g., a gallon of gasoline) and/or any control machine
use to match payment
received. The invention can fill this void for society socio-economically and
environmentally. This kind
of monitoring will be needed to maintain accountability, stability and to
bring about the changes for the
commercialization of these new energy technologies. The invention can serve as
a mobile gas station to
receive moneys for these new technologies while assessing their impacts fairly
and accurately in real
time matching receivables to real use. Hopefully, fossil fuel suppliers will
have insight and be flexible
by embracing the invention these new technologies and plan to invest in these
new technologies as they
have for the exploitation of oil for the last century.
~~W~~ FIRMWARE, AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS FOR THE INVENTION'S
()aVTERFACE) -(PRIMARY "FOCAL NODE") (PFN)
The physical properties and structure of the inventions primary focal node
interface or secure
box will be designed with the intent to be versatile for change but to
universalize the structures to as few
as possible configurations for all purposes. And especially for the automobile
and transportation industry.
It must be remembered that even though this application is accompanied with
very specific drawings and
descriptions that these in no way minimize Iimit or restrict the claims for
any shielded protected or
secluded interface in a host piece of machinery for the purposes stated in
this application or any of the
related filings.
The physical structure in most cases will have laminated walls with the first
surface a 3/16" or
less thick plates of abrasive resistant steel (AR plate) or steel of greater
hardness. The center section will
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S be a composite of Aerogel Space Tile, "Solid smoke" or "Geo bond", and the
final layer for the interior
surface of the box is of 1/8 inch steel to the same AR Plate standards as the
first plate."
AeroGel" or "Solid Smoke" is made of silica, alumina and carbon as well as
other materials. And
is like having a solid piece of vacuum in this center area and this is why it
does not transmit radiant heat.
It was developed through NASA research to replace the space tiles on the
shuttle to protect against the
high heats generated on reentry through the earths atmosphere. Presently it is
being marketed for the
construction of refrigerators ,catalytic converters and furnaces. This
products can insulate up to a 100
times better than the original space tiles. Geo bond is another product that
is made from gypsum and
other aggregate and silicates. These are but only two of the acceptable
thermal insulating products on
the market today and their mere mentioning here, is in no way intended to
limit the inventions options
1 S on insulating products or systems.
For the automotive industry the invention has basically three shapes; it is
prototyping but in no
way is this to be considered a limitation on the designs possible and
configurations needed either in the
automobile industry or any other industry . There is a cube configuration that
measures 12.5" wide X
12.5" deep by 9' high or longer for almost all regular sedans. This box
replaces any need for a glove box
and in many cases will also house the audio systems. A second design is a
horizontal system that is 18-
20" long X 12.5" deep and 6" thick internal. This system will be used in small
vans or in center consol,
or ceiling configurations. And the third one is the add on box system for
commercial use which will not
be a storage system for personal devices and its size will be governed by what
products and services a
company might want, e.g., a cab company or a truck fleet tracking program .
But all will sooner or later
2S carry equipment that are required to operate it legally, e.g.,
communication device a sensor array and
record and report function and a G.P.S. as well as an automated shut down for
the vehicle. The front of
the cube will provide lockable access panels that can also be opened
electrically and will close in some
incidences from sensing inertia via inertia sensor or fluid sensors in stable
reservoirs.
Once again these designs will be customized by the manufacturers and made
aesthetic but
ultimately they will have to meet a standard and will be tested to provide an
acceptable protection for
these vital devices and functions. There will be a government standard as
there is for firewalls and the
shapes and sizes will be standardized so many of manufactures can supply
electrical accessories an
peripherals. All mandated legal devices will be secured with a permanent
access panel that only
authorized persons can open and it will be an offense to tamper with any of
this equipment or the area
3 S they are kept in. The size of this compartment can presently be greatly
reduced. Manufacturers will
integrate these products as they have been explained in this application, but
this prototype was designed
to allow individuals to add there own laptops and other loved accessories and
many people in the future
will look for this capability in an automobile rather than be put off by it.
People have always been
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have as much appeal and
so will the electronic, storage interface function. This is one major property
of the invention's design and
purpose is to provide a modular interface exchange with flexible customized
compartments or areas to
universally accommodate existing products. This was done to first provide a
standard and a place to
interface or to accommodate Commercial Off The Shelf (C.O.T.S.) products and
personal accessories.
10 And then to provide flexible retrofitting for future consolidated and
integrated systems and their
components. Basically, the customized versatility has been designed into the
secure protective
containment to increase the appeal for this kind of interface and to create a
point to organize these
merging-technologies and to control and regulate them properly for society.
And, therefore, this invention's interface (PFN) device claims the right and
capability to connect
1 S up with any diagnostic port or electrical connection (either hardwired or
through infrared comports or
any visual sensor arrays referred to in earlier applications (including fiber
optics)) and use any software
available or invented herein (i.e., OEM, or after market and/or C.O.T.S., and
the like) to most easily
accommodate or access any host piece of equipment's electrical and diagnostic
system and individual
devices or sensors either OEM or installed accessories either physically or
remotely activated by and or
controlled through this interface. Further, the invention claims the
capability to install its own priority
sensors, devices and software to either augment any existing host accessories
or increase the capabilities
of any diagnostic or analytical systems desired for any accounting application
for services or products
to be offered commercially and/or be described within this invention.
This versatility will allow all the individual communication, electronic, and
automotive product
manufactures to become involved and design specific shelves, trays, cassettes
, cartridges, and or IC
cards, etc. for the custom constructed modular compartments to feature their
array of products and/or
components.
Automobile manufactures will save space in the dash board area by storing some
of their
sensitive electronic components or those susceptible to auto theft OEM
devices, i.e., CPUs/PC expensive
audio and video components, etc. that will benefit by a secure, stable and
easy to access for replacement
compartments. And the box will actually replace the need for any traditional
glove box as it can easily
be used to provide a safer storage for personal property and legal documents
(registration, etc: possibly
obsolete with electronic serial number and registration (ESNAR) stored on
board).
The box will provide many modular options for the consumer and the
manufacturers to
customize. This holds initial automotive costs down for the base vehicle price
and allows manufactures,
dealers and aftermarkets to sell to the public to provide affordable upgrades
and accessories for more
comfort, ease and luxury as well as needed services. With this modular
component secure system
interface one can store all valuables and electronics and use them as well in
a concise, organized and safe
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manner. Either modular trays ,cartridges, or LC. component cards, etc. that
can be removed and placed
in a brief case or satchel and carried off for personal use elsewhere. These
types of products, trays,
cartridges that give structure to contain and connect products with electrical
or electronical connections
for interfacing them with other products of the invention and the host machine
are products of the
invention.
MODULAR COMPONENT INTERFACE PRODUCTS
Another configuration could take the form and still function as a small
carrying case (like an
entire brief case or woman's purse) which would hold a persons desired
electronic device array (a mobile
office, etc.). This entire case would have a connector (USB) probably on the
case or an IR
communication port so that it would either jack right into the vehicle secure
box or optically
communicate with the interface system either where a space was provided for it
internally or connected
to the connection array bus or (USB) on the front of the secure compartment.
And this way the owner
could use the interfaced case, charge its components or individual devices
and, if so desired, protect it
in transit or when she was out of his~her car.
There are many manufacturers creating mobile offices out of brief cases that
have cell phones,
modems, laptops and G.P.S. system for the business man to use on the road ,
but not any that interface
data with the vehicle. With this capability the customer could run their own
diagnostics on the car
mechanically. This would be customer owned CDs that can run on the spot
complete shop diagnostics
to give an owner complete electronic up to date report on his vehicle (either
OEM supplied or another
whole automotive aftermarket for electronics and software (another cottage
industry). More consumer
options are that these software programs could be downloaded from Internet web
site for a fee. The
vehicle's Electronic Serial Number, Vehicle Identification Number (ESNV1N)
would be entered when
purged from the web and only one registration would be possible on the disk or
on any down load
encrypted. then the vehicles program would have to give its ESNVIN# before the
program would run.
Also these (PFN) interfacing plug and play personal carrying cases are another
product of the invention.
Ideally these personally carried component systems would be stored and used in
the protection
of the invention's secure containment system because of the high cost of the
devices. Some existing
briefcase products do have chargers but they are not interfaced with the
automobile's TTI, analogue or
digital logic control system. This is a great benefit to the consumer with
this personally owned and
operated vehicle diagnostics system and interface. S/he immediately has
accountability for any actions
taken in the repair of their vehicle and they can have direct contact with any
service provider, who can
look at the same data give advice and prices or dispute another service
providers diagnosis and pricing.
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The invention can record, report and even print data through the many
combinations of
interfacing the varied C.O.T.S. devices and products available. So any
interfacing or connecting of
personal owned equipment to diagnose, view augment, record and or report
whether secured or not when
used by the general public for any and all vehicles, machines and or equipment
are products of the
invention when sold commercially for this purpose
Another good purpose for the invention's interface would allow two systems to
synchronize their
settings (e.g., clock timing and G.P.S. coordinates) with the vehicle having
it's own G.P.S. chip set
system and the mobile office brief case having a G.P.S. system or a hand-held
unit one could set a "Trail"
marker exactly where they left their vehicle and the hand held unit would
guide them back.
The interface box wilt have a bus of connections that connect all the trays,
shelves and or
1 S modular compartment areas. These trays etc, will offer some or all of the
interface communication links
listed below. There will also, be an external array of connections place for
convenience in the vehicles
cabin so that one can connect any desired additional devices in the cabin that
might not require security
or protection. This array of connections will be greatly reduce with the
advent of the IEEE.(LJSB) or
latest 1394 communication links, however, there is a great deal more hardware
connections, light and
sound as well as firmware and software to be accounted for. There will also be
either another connector
array or IEEE 1394 or USB "protected" connector outside the vehicle not just
for convenience, but for
a law enforcement officer to quickly ascertain any pertinent legal data stored
in the protected data area
with protected software protocols on the vehicle that must be satisfied by a
legitimate legal request
(described in innovative devices section).
This is a list of all the industries C.O.T.S. devices, their firmware (burned
in software), and their
hardware connections by manufacturer name. And also, their part descriptions
that will be interfaced
and incorporated thru the invention, which will connect them and protect them
physically in order to
preserve them in an optimum working condition in the best and most secure
environment providable.
This will help give them credibility, validity and accuracy for the accounting
and control services they
will perform for the public's safety and understanding. This allows all
machine, materials and resource
use to be monitored, data stored, reported and remotely controlled to provide
the proper level of service
and product to match the monetary receivables, e.g., for finance firms,
leasing companies government
agencies, etc. It also, allows for the same remote control and record keeping
to insure legal and
environmental compliance.
There may be some overlap in the listing of some of the specific interfaces
and connections
because of the vast amount of past proprietary developments in all the
different industries and their
devices, i.e., pagers one way and two way, cell phones and cell phone modems
for analogue and digital,
Satellite communications and G.P.S. specific system requirements, radio
transmitting and receiving
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equipment, infrared, lasers and or optical sensors and other communication
technologies, i.e., fiber optics
etc., standard electronics, audio (voice), video, and regular hardware
connections, as well as, all the
massive standard and proprietary automotive interfaces and connectors and
including a host of, other
industries that are involved and also have proprietary coupling technology to
be considered. So it will
be difficult to prevent some repetition and duplication as this is an effort
to be inclusive and demonstrate
how unique the invention is in its purpose to interface all these diverse
areas and devices.
It initially serves to universally integrate all these devices and systems in
a C.O.T.S. module
design for the public to learn and work with as well as be, at ease with. This
is a major goal of the
invention to make technology more user friendly for humanity, which will
increase commercial demand
and promote better understanding and proper use of the technologies. So this
listing of parts devices and
products of such a magnitude and detail is very necessary to adequately
demonstrate to all of the
equipment manufactures, governing agencies, the general public, and especially
all those, who are skilled
in all the related arts just how feasible the invention really is. Also, to
introduce the inventions versatility
to integrate and organize machine control and to show how useful this can be
for society today and serve
as a precursor to deal with future technologies on into the next millennium.
So this conglomerate list with descriptions of separate parts and devices
interfaced is intended
to show the real need for this unique universal secure interface system and
it's purpose to make them
accountable. It accomplishes this by offering a platform to utilize all these
technologies together
including the past (backward technologies), the present, and on through into
the future (forward
technologies). It is done though the invention and all it's innovations being
specifically designed to
become a logical primary "focal node" (PFN) as the interface control center
and the primary point of
accountability to synthesize data to a record and report it (communicate it)
much like the PC's do with
the world wide web (WWW).
However, in many cases this will be wireless to a "gateway" commercial server
or provider, who
will be regulated and licenced as a commercial, governmental, or public or
private provider or server.
They will have special protocols they must adhere to and they will be liable
for security and privacy as
the WWW "Gate way providers are presently for certain information, and much
like running a radio
station. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), among many other
government agencies, will
have input and regulation control. Some of the other basic agencies are FBI's
Uniform Crime Reporting
system (L1CR) specifically the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System
(NIBRS), EPA's National
Enforcement Investigation Center, and Federal Highway Administration and
Department of
Transportation (DOT).
From this point the off board accounting and control system (MMN) monitors all
relevant data,
and processes it (initially sent by the primary focal nodes software program
(vehicle secure interface).
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The off board processing system in one modality is a mass data management
network using the same
software as (WWW) (mosaic software) and presently (Hypertext Markup Language
{HTML) This is
detailed more in the Off board mass data Systems for the 1100 series and 1200
series (Spider Eyes and
Greeneye programs) of the invention and will be forthcoming in this
application.
Returning to the primary "focal node", the invention uses this secure box
interface on every
machine to guide development from these more versatile modular products
initially and then on to the
best consolidate integrated circuitry to be secure based as hardware on each
type of equipment
configuration (and not just for automotive applications). This process allows
for rapid functionality
presently in the initial C.O.T.S. combinations and it provides for efficient
condensing of size and space
into ever smaller and more capable integrated secured systems, which also
deserve and benefit from a
safe and secure environment in their accountable service through the primary
focal node (PhN) or the
inventions secure box interface systems.
Many of these integrated consolidating circuits will be mapped out in this
application, but the
purpose for this C.O.T.S. interfacing will always remain a great necessity.
And not just for retrofitting,
but to allow the public with all these products (past, present and future) to
have a modality to create their
own daisy link interfaces to customize combinations for their own mobile work
and leisure electronic
equipment array or station, and also to provide it a safe and secure
environment. The C.O.T.S. capacity
to interface will allow all manufactures to couple all sorts of present
devices and future unrelated devices
in a inexpensive manner to asses there feasibility and frame there composite
hardware designs, which
will reduce proto typing cost for all equipment.
TELECOMMUNICATION AND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFACES - PAGERS
The first patent was very extensive in the C.O.T.S. application of the
standard pager showing
how to use pager activation and access data through hard wire connections,
sensing functions and or
scanning the LCD display through optical readers to be non invasive of this
C.O.T.S. product. As was
described in the first application there has been a rapid evolution of pager
technology and cellular phone
technology. And both these technologies as C.O.T.S. Products have always been
employed to deliver two
way communication when interfaced in the inventions secure containment. But
presently with both of
these technology's advancements, i.e., pagers and cellphones they can deliver
many more capabilities
and functions to the inventions secure and accountable interface. With this in
mind the invention first
utilizes these new standard C.O.T.S. products to inexpensively complete more
tasks by offering basic
remote control in a secure responsible and accountable fashion that can meet
all the basic public safety
needs inexpensively through either pagers and their protocols or cell phones
and their protocols or even
utilize both simultaneously to perform different functions at the same time.
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one of the latest pager
developments, which is in keeping with the first patents non-invasive data
acquisition embodiments has
been given another simplistic avenue to couple devices through the tremendous
gains in voice
recognition technology and voice pager massage systems. This new technology
has many manufactures
in both the cell phone and pager industries just to name a few. Advanced
Recognition Technologies Inc.
10 (ART) Israel, International Business Machines (IBM)USA Lernout and Hauspie
Speech Products NV.
Dragon Systems Inc. Sensory Inc., Which supplies Uniden America Corp., who is
the largest cell phone
makers with speech technology from Sensory, and Intellivoice Communication.
Advanced Recognition
Technology has developed very good algorithms for accurate speech recognition
by adopting them from
the hand writing algorithms in the past and has converted them for speech to
create a stream of digital
15 data for many portable phone manufactures. They have Motorola as a cell
phone customer and also
Samsung and appliance maker Lucky Gold Star, who have done well marketing
their cellular voice
products in Israel and Korea. On the palmtops that have windows applications
Philips Electronics and
Sharp Electronic is utilizing ART SMART(TM) writer software by speaking short
commands to their
tiny machines, where keyboards are so small. For that matter there is a great
deal of computers and
20 software manufacture that have voice recognition software and they to will
be mentioned and described
as to the interfacing that will be possible.
However, the first ingredient to insure accuracy between machines for a voice
communication
interface is to create a sound proof environment so the interface between
these smart C.O.T.S. products
will have a controlled environment designed to allow them to accurately
address each other specifically
and transfer data in relation to their functions and the host machines needs
and operation.
This could be done in the original computer/printer interface relationship
with a "master"
relationship for the controller or computer and all the other peripheral
accessories as slaves. (Either the
inventions controllers or computers, and or the host machine manufactures
controller or computers and
or the personal owners computer. They could be networked together or separate,
but the master command
for any sensitive data storage protocols will be burned in firmware in the
secure containment as part of
the data storage lock up and secured from changing any data content or
commands, until freed up copied
or erased by the proper authorities or physically removed and replaced by the
same).
There are many commercially available products today both for pagers, pager
component devices
and cellphones and cellphone component devices that can easily be developed
and innovated to serve
in a vocal interface with no hardwires. Or as a quieter possibility and more
uninterrupted and secure
communication between machines, an interface design could feature more
standard electrical
connections, i.e., possibly even audio and or other little wires that could
carry the audio signal which can
be decoded for its digital value in each device or any compatible comport
connections needed.
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Either way this system would be outfitted to any voice producing and
recognition technology
that could be used in the invention. If the devices so equipped are stored in
the inventions secured and
protected containment section their interaction can be recorded with any
number of audio recording and
storage systems utilized by the invention which could be a part of the
accountability programs for any
and all the devices or products and or system failures. With a microphone in
the closed compartment
of the invention and recording the machines conversation to the record storage
system, which is set up
in normal operation to rewrite itself on a 20 minute loop; unless an incident
protocol gives the command
to store a specific recording, all the devices in the box will be accounted
for at the time of an event or
accident and can be properly assessed in the appropriate legal settings. With
this operational data stored
on the host machine and with it time and date referenced to coin side with any
other operational data
stored; this audio interaction recording will serve all that must review it
better when they here it in the
verbal language they speak. This allows more individuals to participate in any
necessary judgment
process without a lot of technical know how.
Minti-language capability and automatic translator functions would be easy to
construct as the
voice systems vocabulary should be structured for a set group of universal
commands and alpha-
numerical data similar to the limited English vocabulary universally used for
international pilots. To
identify the units that are interacting they can be named or numbered and a
protocol for this mass
conversation would have to be structured and sanctioned by the proper
authorities. But most conveniently
would be the ability to just add one other device to the invention and not be
required to wire it in if the
CP or CPU was voice capable and had voice recognition and so did the
peripheral being added. Just set
it in and with the appropriate software in the PC just ask it to install the
new peripheral and the two could
talk it out through interface through an install protocol.
Imagine the dialogue it would be like Mr. Roger's neighborhood. The person
installing would
say "Mr. Computer permit me to introduce Mr. G.P.S. (A) and then the computer
would install the sound
(A) in it's program and the G.P.S. would start its dialogue up by. saying its
own name (A) to be
recognized. The computer will be ready to recognize voice numbers and the word
latitude and longitude
and time coordinates and any NMEA jargon. From here on out, it would process
it through its
Application programming Interface (API) and deal with the data in accordance
to programed stack
protocols for mapping, etc. In fact, the electronic voices could be given a
standard pitch and dialect to
make interaction more accurate and the learning of the voice patterns
unnecessary.
The voice recognition technology offered by Motorola has an exclusive
dealership for it's pager
product. The dealer is Oi electric voice pager. The pager runs on AA batteries
and can be easily inserted
into the invention and use the battery peg system to energize it. (Batt. Peg
can be used to give continual
power to all devices in the trays or supplied by traditional AD/DC power
connector jacks). The Oi pager
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uses Lernout & Hauspie's voice compression technology to store and replay
messages. This same
technology could be incorporated into a G.P.S. chip set or C.O.T.S. hand held
receiver and be
preprogramed to in the G.P.S. circuit to say the earth coordinates verbally
when asked verbally by the
inflection voice Oi Pager. And the Oi pager would send this less than 20/sec
data to a receiving computer
that provides the pager service offboard the inflection voice system for
interpretation and tracking. The
computer could have a voice recognition program and show the coordinate on the
screen and pass them
on to law enforcement, etc., or this could be done digitally and
simultaneously and/or digitally solely,
and only apply voice in a review process. This use of voice commands could
actually be used e~ciently
and quite inexpensively between all the devices compartmentalized and
similarly equipped and
programmed to interact with certain and specific dialogues of protocol. In
this case the tracking of a
vehicle could be accomplished with just these two pieces of equipment. With a
speaker/mic turned on
to the cabin from the invention's compartment the operator or occupants could
quite literally listen and
verbally respond if they so desired to interact with all the machines and
devices so linked. One
immediate advantage here is a lay person can create the interface with the
properly voice and processor
equipped devices in seconds by just setting volume and inserting these to be
C.O.T.S. devices into the
compartment. The other good thing is s/he can also identify which components
are malfunctioning by
watching which ones are unresponsive or mute.
However, in industry and especially those like transportation there must be
safeguards of
operation which will have to be put into place so that if a machine or vehicle
is in a critical situation the
compartment can not be opened to any sensitive areas and the master controller
system will be able to
discern the proper protocol and its software or firm ware will maintain
control and the proper
environment for an integral interface. There also will be a computer request
of the operator to repeat a
(take command word) as the driver starts driving in the form of a verbal
request from the systems master
computer. And all but a law enforcement situation the driver would be able to
deactivate or activate any
and all functions that were progamed in the car.
Some other of the Motorola C.O.T.S. products of interest that can make use out
of the
invention's environment and unique data record storage, universal interfacing,
and be utilized
inexpensively for simple remote control and for event accountability are the
ReFlex 25, 50 and inflection
data pager protocols, which can receive and return data . ReFlex 25 at 4-and 7
bit binary short messages
with outbound signaling speed of I .6, 3.2, or 6.4 kbps in three 25-kHz
carriers in 50 -kHz channel and
receiving signaling speed of 800, 1600, 6400,or 9600 bps, and the Re Flex 50
also has a two way
application of 4-and 7- bit binary short messages with a out bound signal as
high as 25.6 kbps and
receiving signal at 9600. And the Inflection Data which is a high speed two
way data supporting pager
protocol as many as seven channels subchannels each as fast as 16 kbps; 50-khz
channel capacity as fast
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as 112 kbps its application is two way 4-and 7- bit, numeric and data out
bound signaling speed 4-8-12-
or l6kbps/ subchannel and receiving at 800,1600,or 6400, or 9600bps All these
C.O.T.S. pager
protocols are arriving on the market as different paging devices and pager
products and all of which can
be interfaced with in the invention and enhanced by its unique properties and
qualities.
PEOPLE POINTER OR PET LOCATOR DEVICE
This innovative product like most all the products is an independent product
interfaced in the
invention and can be removed from the invention and hand carried or completely
used separately,
however in this case it is attached to a belt or collar and attached to an
individual and or pet or some
mobile object that one wishes to keep track of. It is a Motorola's ReFlex 2
way pager protocol as an ideal
modality with two other components a micro processor with firmware (burned
into a memory, e.g.,
EEPROM, so that it functions with a GPS chip set system (in this modality
Philips)so that when the
pager is called and given a coded message it would activate the GPS chip set
and patch antenna to obtain
a satellite position reading and return these coordinates back to an assigned
number via a (gateway
commercial pager provider) to the (VWVW) and an assigned E-mail, i.e., the car
or emergency support
services. Actually Philips has an ideal G.P.S. and processor design chip set
for this application along
with the software.
The two chips are SA 1570 and the SC 1575 which will operate on 3 volts. The
1570 is a double
conversion, speed spectrum, radio receiver circuit with low cost filters and
crystals that provide the
communication component for the G.P.S. function. The second chip SC 1575 a 16-
bit A is a base band
processor and this microcontroller core can process the GPS data to provide
velocity position and time
outputs. The chipset is onboard a serial UART on the base band chip and is
easy to connect to other
devices to create integrated mufti-functional systems. (Philips also and
others (Ganged) for Europe and
are developing two way paging for EMMIES protocol and when available this also
could provide another
transceiver function for personally held GPS to locate people and things. Or
serve equally well as a
C.O.T.S. in the box for European applications. Also, it is possible with
Motorola's involvement in
semiconductors that they to could develop a chip set or use someone else to
complete this personal
locator pager with their ReFlex pager protocols. However, this would still
fall within the nature and
scope of this very important innovation of the invention. (In fact, Fig. 13
shows recently developed
G.P.S. chip set.)
And in another modality from the initial application there has been an
alternate design and
technology for a people locating device that incorporates a low noise FM signa
and employs the (PFN)
in every Vehicle to receive this signal in a mufti band receiver and
rebroadcasts it on long distance
communications systems -two way Pagers-cell phones 2 way radios and it is
referred to as the repeater
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function of the invention is also another separate by product of the
invention's multiplex of
communication interfaces accomplished in the (PFN). This close in repeater
function is used in law
enforcement, hunting products and, locating people as well.
Returning to the ReFlex pager and or two way pager protocols with GPS. Their
use in the
invention are also enhanced with respect to power considerations because the
GPS reading would be
current or not need a first cold reading. The 2-way pager GPS package would
ideally be given close GPS
coordinates under the cars energy before removing and or synchronized with any
second onboard GPS,
ideally some small chipset integrated into the inventions computer and storage
compartment. If this 2-
way pager GPS interface system was used continually independently it would
require a greater power
source or would be directed to keep a current reading to eliminate the power
drains of cold readings.
However, the GPS 2-way pager unit could be removed from the secure lockup and
affixed to a person
and they would be able to send signals back to the car via the pager service
and the car would receive
an E-mail via other pager receiver system or cell phone technology at which
time the car would track all
the trail markers sent back and record them and store them in the data
storage. Also the pager commercial
service could have an automated watchdog software that would track record and
store and respond to
emergency queries protocols. 'This commercial service is another commercial
product of the invention
(like a lifeguard system) attached to the 911 system and provided by
commercial paging companies or
any private monitoring companies that wanted to run either a phone node
(Gateway) and or web sites to
monitor for E-mail. Or the person could send it to a personal friends E-mail
for them to monitor or their
own E-mail. And on silent mode a parent could trigger the GPS and have it give
the real-time location
of their child and if it was a voice system as well they can listen on mute to
appraise the situation or ask
verbally.
Also, with an emergency button or the small key board available in the 2000
series Motorola
ReFlex protocols the lost person could send the signal back or ask for help
from a few selected sources
by their own direction as they appraise their needs, police, EMTs, etc.
For pet use the signal would only be sent to the vehicle or other 2-way pager
GPS or cell phone
GPS system that could be hand held. This is also an easy technology for the
cellphone systems to adapt
to add. And finally this system could be coupled with the short range repeater
systems that are detailed
later which would send a local signal first for immediate use and action to
locate a child near by, etc. and
use any vehicle as a platform to repeat the signal to the proper authorities
as a locator tool.
Motorola has another paging product from it's flex technology (FAST) -called
Creatalink where
it uses one-way and two-way pager protocols interfaced with a micro-processor
and can perform remote
control functions mainly in the automotive industry. These devices basically
perform the same functions
as described for the C.O.T.S. pager systems in the original stop and control
box patents for this invention,
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However, all the great
variations of Creatalink would also be greatly enhanced and serve society
better if they were interfaced
and combined with the invention's unique interface systems and securement. The
system would easily
fit into a compartment of the invention as its physical measurements are 4.75
inches by 3.25 inches by
1 " and is easy to interface with many other devices.
10 The invention optionally uses the standard Motorola (C.O.T.S.) ReFlex 2-way
pager and plans
to use the Ermes style in Europe (radio products produced by Phillips for the
most part when they are
marketing their product) to produce its own low cost two way communications to
report GPS
coordinates. To first track a vehicle in the most rudimentary level with the
invention's original Stamp
II computer to fulfill for the least sophisticated and inexpensive remote
control protocols, for tracking
15 with GPS and law enforcement with a controlled remote shutdown as standard
automotive equipment.
This same paging system will be used for even more complicated remote and
automated aggressive shut
downs of a vehicle in real time that is designed in a sequential acceptably
safer manner than any existing
modality. For this entire process to stop the vehicle it can be accomplished
with one coded phone page
received and by the preprogrammed stamp II computer and the automated
guidance, acceleration lockout,
20 braking, and final vehicle securement, is controlled from this vehicle
(PFN) computer. Ideally with law
enforcement, but this system has been designed to handle an automated shut
down if the vehicle is
determined to be without any responsible operator control as an improved
option to no control. These
are the 940 series computer systems, and for these functions Motorola makes a
second Creatalink product
that can also work equally well in the protected (PFN) well called
CreataLink(TM)2 it has a internal and
25 external antenna if necessary has a serial TTL interface/RJ-12
Connector/CLP Serial data protocol.
And for the integrated circuit construction to consolidate future functions in
the invention
Motorola sells a Flex receiver board under the name of CreataLink RX (TM).
Philips also sells similar
products as another supplier of C.O.T.S. products and components. Any one of
these systems either the
components of this technology or the other manufacturer can equally function
though the secure interface
and this inventions technology. In the third patent application, all the
remote control devices in the (PFN)
and any of these communication interfaced control systems or
communicacontrollers presently combined
as C.O.T.S. products can perform the command functions and are all completely
detailed as to how they
perform on the vehicle/equipment.
For the very sophisticated remote control functions employing video or digital
imaging and or
sensor arrays for detecting road edge etc. The invention's secure (PFN) has 5
types of embedded types
controllers it uses for different variations, supplied through Arcom Control
Systems.
Motorola has a lot of its products licenced and being marketed by other
commercial entities and
one such company is Global Switch-All. A major product of theirs is "The Auto
Protector" which is a
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anti-theft locator system with many of the autotheft functions that the
invention completes but in a little
different way. There are many other such companies on the market in the Cell
phone industry and Radio
frequency area and their is more each and everyday. And everyone of these
products will be easy to
accommodate in the secure encasement and if they are going to perform any
remote control functions
they should be recorded and made accountable. This is and will be the
appropriate growth for remote
control and full robotics of the future e.g Smart cars and interactive
highways.
The technology to interface all these C.O.T.S. Motorola systems for Data
transfer are covered
in all three of these applications and in a number of ways. They are also
described and displayed in
drawings for a suggested progressive commercial products development for
responsible remote control
as prototypes and protocols. This is done to display the modular capability of
the innovation's with
1 S COTS devices interfaced and the versatility built into making the
invention compatible with all involved
technologies to serve as the ideal interface for this massive technical
evolution and merger. So by
showing the development and the commercialization of the invention in this
manner anyone skilled in
these arts and even those modestly skilled including layman could achieve the
necessary interfaces to
make all the prototypes involving these above-mentioned Motorola and other
C.O.T.S. developed
products a reality.
ERMES AND FLEX PAGING APPLICATION IN THE INVENTION
A little more description on the COTS paging products world wide that the
invention interfaces.
The new paging applications that are responsible for this latest
sophistication are European Radio
Message system (Ermes) and FLEX which is flex stack Application Programming
Interface (API). Flex
is a product of Motorola and the basis for ReFlex the two way paging
technology used in the United
States and Asia, It has decided advantages over the Ermes applications that
saves battery power and
makes it easier to achieve two way paging . These are related to the
frequencies used and the number of
signals used to set up error correcting pcntocols. For this reason Ermes is
forced to stay active longer and
can not rest the battery as much or it risks missing messages. The Ermes
systems have been developing
the 2 way paging capacity with them soon to be available through (Ganged).
However presently the flex
stack of Motorola and the varied protocols available with more in the future .
Motorola is quite
proprietary with its decoder firm ware managed by their starker, however both
paging applications
Ermes and flex can be interfaced into remote control functions through the
inventions interface and both
are increased in value by the inventions systems and protection.
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CELL PHONES
Cell phone systems have a number of companies directly producing modems that
convert the cell
phone into a data link for Laptops, palmtops programmable controllers Etc. For
tile lap and palm tops
they come with 2 in 1 PCMCIA (PC cards to be able to use your laptop or
palmtop like a desk top in
a mobile situation through analogue telecom lines at 14.400 or 33.600 or
through a digital GSM
cellphone up to 56k bytes/sec. These are the COTS products and systems on the
market today that can
be interfaced in the invention to be a secure and varied interface that is
protected . The pager interface
connectors will also be listed for one way and the logical development of the
two way pager that are cots
products and described as the original communication link and system for the
stop box.
There is also other connectors that will be used in the invention that do not
involve portability.
1 S In the event that the invention may be stationary and being used in other
industries that will employ land
based lines, regular modems and or some other communication system to either
remotely control, record
and or report machine use from this secured environment.
The company Option International, is one of many companies offering interfaces
and cable
connectors to interface laptops and PC"s with peripherals so these supply
companies will not generally
be listed, however, most all relevant parts and interface systems will be
referenced here.
These modems work through the digital GSM cellular systems for the most part
but presently
it might be necessary to have two phone numbers to presently handle data and
voice separately due to
the inadequacies of the fixed line exchanges /switches so the cell phone in
this modality will have one
number to better direct and handle data at 9600baud, data at 2400 baud and fax
at 9600. However, with
all phone systems constantly improving their hardware, and capacity in digital
technology this situation
will be remedied which will reduce the need for two numbers on one cell phone.
And there are many cell phone manufactures like:
Nokia 2110,21 I Oi,8110,3110,6080--
Panasonic G350.g400,g450,g500--
Ericsson 388,337,318,688,628,768,788
Sony CM-D 100,CM-D 200, CM-DX 1000
NEC G9
AEG TP 9050
AT&T 3240,3245,
just to name a few that have modems basically made by Compaq, Hays Option, and
3Com that have
cable connectors to interface with Lap tops and PC's. These same connector are
set up on all the
inventions computers and controllers to allow data links to remote locations
and are stored in the (PRN),
which is where any lap tops and palm tops could be housed and operated from as
well.
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OTHER CELL PHONE SYSTEMS
3COM-USR Megahertz, 3COM-USR,ADC Kentrox,Bay Networks-
Spec GlO,Belkin Components,Cisco Systems,Motorola ISG,
Xircom. And the cable connections they place on the ends of the cables are:
Motorola, Pioneer, JVC, Nokia Telephone Radio SHKXJ/CC 4336/5560,XJ/CC/EM
4288/4336,STARTAC CELLPHONE, Ericcson,EM models 5560X and RS232,TC MP-DB9F,TC
MP-
CISCO 2500 SERIES,TC MP-DB25F DB25P-V.35F CBL,7834-44P1N-V.35 SYNC PASS.
These are just a few of the commercial off the shelf products that will be
incorporated into the
invention and are only named to demonstrate that basically all cell phone
products will be outfitted to
easily interface with portable computers and the average person will be able
to install and interface these
1 S products in the secure interface with relative ease. Ideally with insight
all the varied manufactureres will
be pleased to design their product lines in arrays and with other desired
products for the public's easy
combination. In doing so they will enjoy a greater market for 'any specific
product by more completely
utilizing all it's capabilities.
It is important to show how these cell phones will become extremely useful in
the future by
describing how the latest in cellular digital technology is providing all the
band width and multiple
frequency flexibility to accommodate real time video and or digital imaging
for the invention to have
this another of it's report back functions to be view and stored as dat if
necessary. This can also be
accomplished through the transfer of data storage mediums physically to
compare files for accuracy and
tampering if need be.
The latest Cell phone technology Code Division Multiple Access (CMA) will
enhance the video
and graphics capability from the (PRN) if used as the communication link. This
can help for any
program needs to send a video image from the vehicle as part of real time data
being given priority to
be filed, e.g., for police applications (LJCR) (IVIBRS) as part of the
inventions (spider eyes Program) and
for the receiving of graphics, photos or video e.g. mug shots. The spider eyes
program is explained in
the third application especially dealing with all the electronic controls and
peripherals. However it
basically describes how on each and every vehicles' out board video system can
be used to provide
recorded video and or digital still or snap shots for traffic accidents and or
crime incidents either
automatically activated or by a remote control command. It also provides for
several recovery methods
for this information to be recorded and reported on board and off board if the
software program
parameters warrants such action.
Now with this latest (CMA) technology this becomes far easier to accomplish in
real time.
Another great advantage to (CMA) communications link in the invention is the
gateway computer net
work services that will be available through this technology and system. By
using the (C.O.T.S.) product
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Sony D- WAVE Cosm Communicator interfaced in the (PRN). (CMA) base stations
communicate
geographic location information can be received to update traffic situations,
also access to the yellow
pages, maps and driving directions, Sony is developing a miniature accessory
presently that turns the
phone into a powerful digital camera (for Snap Shot options) -Detailed in the
Third application for the
Spider eyes program.
What is unique is that this system will be able to compress the pictures and
store them in a cyber
album, time and date the location automatically and accompany it with audio or
voice. And the images
can be view on personal web pages and down loaded to a PC.
However, this invention also uses another product of Sony's the "memory stick"
and in most
cases this D-WAVE CELLPHONE with digital camera devices interfaced or a form
of this D-WAVE
protocol would be used to send these images to the on board protected storage
stick if it was deemed
important but not worthy of an immediate trans mission. Sony has a lot of
plans for this new technology
and it is an ideal fit for the invention and any of its mobile uses, e.g.,
their web browser will have a new
Internet technique called "personal scrap book", which allows a person to
select content from familiar
sources, also WebSPF(TM) allows for one to reliably and quickly connect to any
website with out HTML
defects and an immediate disconnect, which without these qualities could be
debilitating in a mobile
application. This prototype can be used typically as a modem for any onboard
easy interface with the
computer systems and or personal laptops and will function with ISP servers as
well. And will be
interfaced as a COM Link and support base for video peripherals in most of the
more sophisticated
computers used by the invention.
Another important advantage to this unit is it's self contained 65,535-color
active matrix screen
320x200 pixel. The prototype handset communicator is ideal for the
compartments in the invention
because it is only 4.25" long 2.5" wide and less than 1.25' thick. Of course a
interface connector tray
would have to be configured to supply, a battery charge, any necessary
interface connector array, any
possible voice or infrared data transfer desired, and any external antenna
considerations if necessary from
the mufti antenna buss in the inventions (PRN). However, there is designed
polysulfone heat shield
covered ports in inaccessible area of every secure (PFN) to allow for these
contained product's standard
antennas to function inside the box with no threat of damage from fire
(Polysulphone is a high heat
water proof thermal plastic and a product of Amoco Oil). It can handle direct
heat up to 370 F). The
interface trays (possibly made from same material) will also provide away to
appreciate the LCD screen
if not utilizing some other larger display on board either in other products
(personal laptops etc.) or part
of the OEM host machine (Hologram wind shield displays or other LCD displays
for the instrument
panel (IP) or video technologies , flat screen digital, etc.) or one of the
Inventions own displays.
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swipe phone or
installable bill box system, which is depicted in Figures 3 and 3a. The entire
unit can be reduced in size
and increased in functions to provide secure data transfers of bank card
driver licenses , Etc information
to charge and check credit for cabs, busses , Etc, as well as, confirm a
driver licence and photo on file
for the police or for the acceptance of a credit charge. The Sony system is
one of many that are going
10 to have to be able to give location data for cell phones in the near
future, but it's (CMA) D-WAVE
Protocol has all the right properties to work really well in the invention.
Another present cell phone system that is easy and ideal to install for the
laptop is "Complete
PC Card"(TM). It is a cellular system and a landline and modem PC card. But
most importantly, it can
also be supported in the inventions computer systems with a PCMICA Type III
form factor socket and
1 S windows software program form 3.1 up. The "Complete PC card"(TM) has it's
own antenna and is a cell
phone, modem and can hook up to the nationwide seamless cellular system. It
has a transfer rate is 14400
Baud. It is a C.O.T.S. product and already FCC approved. This system will be
part of any integrated
consolidation for a dedicated cell phone technology to handle remote control
through the inventions
computer and will be stored in the legally protected area. It is the best
present system for the inventions
20 communication link and the one chosen for the prototypes. It can also be
connected to land base lines
with the standard RJ11 phone connector. It does not require any cables and it
has no compatibility
problems.
HOUSEHOLD CORDLESS PHONES - UNIQUE INTERFACE SYSTEM
2S For some time now the cordless phone has been on the market and been used
to give freedom
to the user from being attached to a telephone hard wire line. In many
commercial applications and
industrial settings it is impossible hazardous or extremely di~cult as well as
costly to run a hard wire
phone line to a machine or piece of equipment in which one might want to have
the ability to send data
for some programming need. They also might not want to use either a pager or
cell system for cost
30 reasons and or the distance might not be that far.
For this application the C.O.T.S. usage of a regular cordless phone outfitted
with a standard
female modular phone Jack that is wired into the out put circuit of the number
pad encoder for the
number pad tone converter and the common line for the ear piece will allow a
portable lap top, the
inventions, mini computer or larger computer system to dial out and transfer
data to off board phone
3S linked computer systems. the limits here as always is bandwidth and speed,
however the prototype as
developed for this purpose to be used as another C.O.T.S. communication
product in the invention, but
it will also serve to create a phone link for lap top and desk Top PC's as a
quick and easy way to hook
up to the web and send or receive faxes\ E-mail. This only requires a very
short regular two lead phone
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wire with the standard modular ends to be plugged into on one end the
specially installed regular phone
jack a j 11 on the cordless phone, and on the other end the computer standard
modem which is wired in
as described above and turned on just prior to sending the command to dial
from the computer.
It would not be too difficult to even have the laptop turn on the transceiver
in the hand held
cordless phone by sending the appropriate signal from the switch circuit that
controls the On of phone
function, however, it is really not needed and not a great challenge for
anyone, who has owned both a
computer and a regular cordless phone for any length of time. There also can
be some difficulty in high
speed data transfer for digital signals and will require slower speeds and in
some cases or data
compression and decompression hardware. However, most PC's seek the fastest
speed they can
communicate automatically.
Even if this device is used independently of the secure containment systems it
falls under the
unique C.O.T.S. interface innovations and part of the communication links for
the control center in parts
and devices series 1000, but should be considered as a separate innovation as
well.
LAND LINES, MODEMS, CONNECTIONS FOR COMPUTER PERIPHERALS DIRECT
CABLE CONNECT (DCC) ENDS
These are hardware connectors for the most part which will be serviced by #14
wire of cable
modem design unless otherwise provider for in the comparkment or trays and or
required by some custom
specifications.
There are a great deal of manufactures that produce peripheral connections and
these proprietary
connections will be configured to allow the universal interchange and quick
connection of all these
separate devices to be used in any secure box interface. The manufacturers
producing these connectors
are named below as well as the cell phone peripheral connections
THRU,SER ADPT DB9F/DB25M,RS232 STRAIGHT THRU DB25M/M,IBM GOLD DB9F
DB25M,PC/XT HAYES MODEM DB25F/M,RS232 SER DB25M/M,IBM PC/AT TO HAYES
MODEM,RS232 SER DB25 M/M 6F,PC/XT TO HAYES SOPK AT HAYES,MON SER DBM DB9
THUMB SCREW,8 LEAD OCTAL WITH 8 MALE DB25 MODEM CON,8 LEAD OCT WITH/8
FEMALE DB25 TERM CONN,RJ45 TO DB25 MOD AAPT,MICRO TAC CELLPHONE,DB26M
V.35F,6DB25M V.35F 25PIN DB25,RJ11 F/ CEM33BT/CEM-33BC/CM-33,RJ11 28.8 CM28
PSCEM28BT PSCEM28BC,RJ11 33.6 CM33 CEM33BC CEM33BT,ETH IOBT/100TX F/CE3B CBE
CEM56,ETH lOB2 F/CE2 CE3 CEM2 CEM33,TR UTP F/CT CT2,TR UTP F/CTM,TR BALUM
UTP/STP/F/CTM,TR STP F/CT CT2,F/CEM28 CM28,F/CM33U CM56,GLOBAL MODEM
F/CTM,PHANTOM POWER F/PE3 PT3,ETH 10/100B2.
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Once again, these are a few of the connectors that have been used in the past
for the computer
interface with communication devices for pagers, cell phones, radios and land
line phone modem
connections. This short list is in no way intended to represent all of the
interfaces and connections the
invention uses or will use in the future. But merely to show the inventions
compatibility to all COTS
products. One system of interfacing for all these older systems will be the
peg board system much like
an electrical engineer's or experimenter's bread board, which will offer
female jack holes in parallel rows
And all the specific cots devices will have their specialized connector on one
end connecting cable and
on the other end will be male plug which is able to be inserted into this
general mufti- peg board buss
set up for (Serial, parallel SCSI and or any of the newer interface
connections like the IEEE 1394). The
peg board bus is shielded all the way around in plastic covered insulated foil
to reduce electrical noise.
I 5 Infrared communication interfacing and coupling for data transfer is
another way to interface
devices in the invention with out a direct cable connector type system or the
traditional (DCC) computer
connections. However, this system has its limitations as well; e.g., it is not
a good system presently to
run two applications simultaneously. The problem is that the present algorithm
used to run the
application when disconnect from a first application will inadvertently and
simultaneously disconnect
from any other infrared application running. However, infrared technology is
fast becoming another easy
way to interface devices and will serve well presently for single applications
as used with other multiple
interface data transfer systems (DCC) (Voice) and even fiber optics.
One innovative design for the infrared interfaces is to have their optical
windows on a flexible
electrical cable cord and have the windows out fitted in a velcrove band that
would have its mating tape
on the C.O.T.S. Product IR window for quick, proper and stable attachment of
the two windows for an
optimal union energized from the main controller. There is in another modality
and design a convex
semi-circular chamber node or glass ball node covered in velcrove, which
provides a number of
uncoverable attachable port holes to couple a number of Ir optical cable end
windows to form a multi-
port fiber optical cable juncture on this optical node. In a second modality
this same glass node or
reflective prism could be connecting fiber optic cables or flexible glass or
plastic rods with specially
prepared ends to accept and transfer the data stream optically so long as it
did not bend the infrared light
and corrupt the data stream. These ends would also be attached with velcrove
to allow the user to
quickly install and interface the devices no matter where their Ir ports were
located. There are many
attaching devices and using any different system should not constitute any
uniqueness on this protected
and flexible interface for IR interfaces as described above.
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IEEE 1394, INTEL'S U1~1IBUS (CTSB) AND APPLES "FIRE WALL" TECHNOLOGY
Ideally these are the (DCC) connection developments that make the Commercial
Off The Shelf
C.O.T.S. product modality interfacing for the inventions secure (PFN) most
practical and an inevitable
reality in some form. And also aid in the second embodiment of the secure
(PFN) by making additional
couplings of future C.O.T.S. SEPARATE PRODUCTS easy to couple for data
transfer with IC Printed
circuit boards. The future concise and consolidated IC boards will also have
edge connectors, e.g., 30
and 72 pin Simm's sockets for peripheral in card form and the invention will
have ribbon conversion
male connectors from these types of sockets to many other necessary connector
types to provide a more
universal interchange with in the (PFN). The secure (PFN) has a real
commercial purpose as a secure
lock up interface to provide a good environment to accomplish these interfaces
and protect them from
theft and unwanted tampering. The IEEE 1393 protocol is quickly emerging as
the standard to all its
predecessors even those that have been combined to create it, like GEOport,
USB connector styles and
SCSI. Even though these designs can support data transmission for video and
graphic, they are limited
in speed and can in most cases service one host computer, however, they can be
utilized within the
invention.
The invention will be configured and detailed in the 1000 series parts to
accommodate and work
with these shortcomings as well as all the types of connectors and interfaces
previously mentioned as
backward technologies because of it's wide array of combinations and levels of
operation, and to
deliberately develop a universal interface system for all peripherals and
combinations to better serve the
Machine Messaging Network (MMN).
However, designs where ever possible will incorporate the IEEE1394 because
they provide the
best service with size considerations for the physical connections and they
provide for 63 connected
devices and computers networked being of great importance in the (PFN) secure
box system as is
apparent to any one skilled in the art. And ultimately they will be more
universally used as an electronics
coupler through out all industries to compete interface tasks, e.g.,
communications digital imaging
cameras, etc., automotive applications, GPS systems, and as a way to add on
memory and or data storage
or daisy chain all kinds of devices or to connect to supply and retrieve data.
NMEA - GPS SYSTEMS AND THEIR INTERFACES
Note: This ability to link up with and interface PCS with other devices such
as onboard GPSs
like "Delorme" C.O.T.S. Product "Tripmate" which can connect through the mouse
or key board ports
(PS2, Etc) and run it's own digital accompanying software, or any other GPS
system that can provide
location coordinates electronically for other digital software products, i.e.,
Rand McNally products and
other geographic mapping software programs that can recognize earth
coordinates (latitude & longitude,
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received as an electronic and/or digital signal, or any software conversions
and/or already in-house
invention described interfaces, as well as utilize standard address
information. These systems can
position the vehicle and map it in the PC display which will allow the
operator to locate and guide
himself individually and faster without having to use any outside support
software service or servers,
which will free up any network system software or commercial servers for those
who need it. These
products have been developed to chart the best driving path and give on the
road instruction verbally and
in written directions and in map diagrams
An onboard automated operational software program could triage services and
prioritize them
to be handled by onboard software; either PC driven or by advanced versions of
the billing box
computer/processor and designed to maximize and consolidate the services
desired to meet any of these
needs either by onboard devices or oftboard servers and their devices, e.g.,
software and networks that
could be decided by an individual's decision as to any monitoring system
service cost vs individual
hardware/software cost and/or personal privacy of movement concerns with
respect to these variations.
In the processor section the more advanced computers are PC 104 module
configurations and
in this cases The "OEM 4000"DGPS credit card size receiver will provide, the
high performance
differential GPS embedded applications in the world wide standard R(B)DS and
RTCM SC 104 formats.
Depending on the differential correction service the GPS position accuracy can
attain 1 meter. This
product will interface with RS 232 or TTL very simply providing integration of
GPS systems of use in
many applications, e.g., geodesic research, forest applications, marine
positioning and car systems. Ir
connects through a 6 pin connector and requires +SVDC. While this has been
designed to be used in the
inventions own devices this credit card size GPS is one modality to give GPS
to Laptops and Palm Tops
which is described as another product of the invention.
All these portable and mobile (PFI~ interfaced systems would increase the
speed and efficiency
of all the on board and off board systems as this individual hardware and
software ownership become
the norm: Through these inexpensive and natural improvements manufacturing
costs will be lowered and
consolidated, and miniaturization will be achieved and more optimal hardware
and software device
augmentations will be forthcoming. All of these combinations variations and
changes still all fall under
the nature and scope of this invention when utilized for these stated purposes
and developed in the
manner described and or utilized herein.
Also in the pager pointer or person locator device the use of the Philips GPS
chip sets SA 1570
and SC 1575 have been discussed as good Chips to be integrated with the
Motorola's ReFlex pager
protocols 25 and 50. The Phillips' chip set could like wise be easily combined
with the inventions system
computers and either run on board software or access a CD write disk or MO
drives or any other storage
device.
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into a mobile
computer system, e.g., laptop computers or especially palm tops with PC cards
and or memory sticks to
deliver data storage or updates, and/or provide the digital map archive files.
This is in keeping and a
progession of development from the interfacing personal electronic array of
carrying cases to
consolidated portable personal products that can be used with and away from
any (PFN), e.g., car, in fact,
10 the next progressive product is this combine Mini computers GPS and either
a cellular phone and or
pager system technology through integrating all the circuits to provide one
personal portable (PFN) To
diagnosis, Locate, record and report on other pieces of equipment that have a
malfunction on their (PFN)
or need repair or just as a consolidated personal computing and communicator
station with a host of
products and peripherals to connect to it (e.g., cameras videos, TVs) to
create a personal entertainment
15 center solely for personal convenience . Head phones, microphone and voice
recognition technology and
their can be privacy and or hands free control over this device. These
products all exist as C.O.T.S.
products and they can easily be built into one integated product by anyone
skilled in the art with all the
components listed in this application and are stated a innovative natural
evolutions of this invention's.
technology. Also with the new described Sony D-Wave protocols-location can be
obtained though this
20 phone technology another space saving attribute.
Once again this is a list of a great deal of the hand held C.O.T.S. GPS
Products that will be used
in the (PFN) but in no means does this list limit the use of other unmentioned
devices and products:
Magellan GPS 2000XL, Pioneer
Garmin GPS 12
25 Egal, Explorer.
All these products have data interfaces of National Marine Electronics
Association (NMEA)
0180,0182 0183v1.52.0 and differential capable RTCM-104v They are also
designed with cigarette
lighter adapters so any voltage consideration can be provided in the
containment interface from the
variable power supply.
30 The invention has been designed to give order to the process of vehicular
messaging, remote
control and complete robotics. With this in mind it is important to remember
that a lot of new products,
services and companies have ballooned onto the market with everything from
autotheft deterrent and
prevention devices to the interactive highway systems of the future. And
basically because of the great
strives in telecommunications Satellite positioning, solid state computer
product and their software all
35 being employed more readily than ever imagined on mobile platforms. This is
another major reason the
invention creates the secure accountable containment primary focal node (PFN)
for all these in industries,
companies and government agencies to have a structured environment to set up
standards, acceptable
modalities, practices and regulations for this present menagerie of technical
and commercial mergers.
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With this in mind, these are some of the present tracking , anti-theft
companies and remote
control systems on the market that would be a welcome addition and be enhanced
in the secure box
interface. This list is once again in no way considered compete as to all
those products and companies
that would be served well or serve well in the invention:
AVL Information Systems Inc AVLIS9 (R) VIS104HD(TM)
AUTOTRACK USING NAVASTAR GPS systems
GPSS in logistics.
GM's product OnStar with EDS, Prince, Highwaymasters,and Johnsons Controls.
Recently GM Delphi Delco, Lockheed.
If full robotics systems or even partial remote control devices are deployed
their is a host of
insurance and civil questions that need to be answered and one of the most
important is how do we assign
accountability and liability for the driver actions and the automated vehicle
operations. This is the third
reason for the secure accountable (PFN). It will be a necessity for the
interactive highways and the smart
car development to be accepted by our society institutions insurance companies
and our legal system.
PRIMARY FOCAL NODE CPU HARDWARE 940-1050 SERIES
PROCESSORS\CONTROLLERS\COMPUTERS
STAMP II. The 940 series computer has been thoroughly described in the
previous patent
application and is an excellent in expensive system to be coupled with a
myriad of devices and
communication equipment. However in some of the heavy duty remote control
applications and robotics
full computers are required and full data storage devices are also required
for accountability.
The invention uses, for example, 5 different inexpensive computers presently
they are the Target
188EB a PC/104 embedded processor board, The target 386EX a high speed
embedded processor, 486SX
micro controller, 386SX/486SXLC2 processor board and a high performance AIM104-
386-33 single
board PC. The reason for the many varied computer controller boards is to
accommodate all the varied
functions of the invention's peripherals, e.g., running big industrial
equipment to operating small solenoid
valves in simple blind remote controls. Their are many other computers that
could be used in the
invention, however these 5 will be able to complete most all the (PFN)
functions to report to any size
control system or additional (PFN) it needs to net work with (e.g., large
factories' equipment
applications).
These last 5 computers can complete and support any computer operation and
have modular
cards to increase their functions and capacity or to vary and accommodate any
desired programmable
control functions. (These small single-height Euro cards measure 1000mm (H) by
160mm (I) which will
fit nicely in any permanent protected area with the protected data storage
equipment. These mini
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computers can support key board and mouse operation, 4 and 8 megabyte of ram
and some have more.
There is also additional on board data storage systems, for personal and
public permanent record storage.
These systems and devices will be detailed in the following section. It is
possible that the pentium and/or
pentium pro processors might be used for improved video with the faster speeds
up to 200+ MHz internal
clock speed at a later date.
As has been maintained through out this application and the other two related
applications, this
(PFN) is a versatile storage control center performing the stop box, black box
and billing box functions
which have been isolated out and described to better provide easier
understanding, development and
commercialization of the invention. But, ideally the secure (PFN) is designed
to provide safe storage for
all mobile electronics personally owned e.g Lap tops, organizers cell phones,
etc., and any of the host
equipments control circuitry, e.g., programmable controller, controller
modules, system control modules
as well as any memory storage for trouble codes linked or separate that might
be served well by being
consolidated and or interfaced in the secure protective environment of the
invention and part of any
Primary Focal Node (PFN). It is the intention to develop the invention's
secure electronic interface as
a standard set of structured devices in some form on ever piece of equipment
to complete the (PFN) task
in the future.
The Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), e.g., for car manufactures, e.g,
GM, FORD
CHRYSLER/DAHMER, Nissan, Volvo, etc., will come up with some specific
utilization of any (PFN)
for their host equipments computer system and modules needing, and/or
deserving this type of interface
and or interface protection, either consolidated in one place or as a linked
set of either protected or
unprotected devices. So the PFN interface will be able to interface
electronically with any number of
automotive multi-pin connectors that it has to transfer data TTL, digital or
analogue either inboard a
(PFN) structure or in some separate linked network and or daisy chain
configuration to obtain any
operational information on the vehicles performance and operation as well as
control its electronic
equipment. In the development of the invention the automotive manufactures
,government agencies and
insurance companies will be sought out to best commercialize the invention to
meet their specific needs
as well as, to be universally standardized for more accountability and
familiarization in legal settings and
public understanding. This will increase market value for all these new
technical devices.
The normal vehicles peripherals will be monitored, e.g., OEM computer or one
of the inventions
computers and or any additional innovative peripherals either products of this
technology or other
manufactures will also be interfaced utilized for their special properties and
or monitored in their
performance and if of a critical operational failure to the host equipments
proper operation recorded and
if necessary reported back to the off board monitor and control system the
Machine Messaging Network
(MMN) and or on to the web pages on the (WWW) to create the (hll~(r~'WWW)
interface. This probably
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S should not post personal information or specific vehicle ID info, e.g.,
Electronic Serial Number Vehicle
Identification Number (ESNVIN), but could.
The invention combines the communication devices electronic serial number and
the
manufacturer's vehicle number so the exact combination of equipment sending
information is identified
and also the exact location of the transmission (GPS) Personal profile can be
sent as part of this header
with the Lic. Tag No. and/or driver's licence, as scanned in through the card
swipe, or fingerprint
analysis if publicly determined policy or some judicial conditions for an
individual's driving privilege.
All this information would be listed in the state mass data computer to be run
through a compare list and
dealt with accordingly.
This process also provides for any initial privately purchased program for
fleet management and
the regular citizen owner and or operator to be notified in real time on the
IP instrument panel and for
the shop of his/her choice to be notified at an earlier level than a critical
notice to the state highway mass
data systems. The operator or their shop would have preprogramed in the
software of the (PFN) in
anyone of the capable controlling and communication systems previously
mentioned another address,
e.g., phone number, that is the data for review as the driver is notified in
real time. If this is a persistent
problem that violates the public's laws, e.g., brake problems or CO pollution
the preprogrammed
monitoring controller will search its compare list for frequency and dial up
the proper authorities as well
as notify the shop of the transmission. Ultimately and ideally this software
will be part of any vehicle
OEM computer and secured and protected in this manner.
Question: Why is this needed?
1 ) No more need to waste the citizens' time for vehicle inspections.
2) No more need for air pollution inspections
3) Identifies problem vehicle types and product failures.
4) Identifies unsafe geographic areas air pollution, accidents, equipment
failures due to
deteriorated roads.
S) It allows for the industries to identify good designs by the lack of
trouble codes sent in to the
state computers. This is determined because all vehicles will have a periodic
self diagnostic and report
in at least on any renewal of state registration.
6) This data will cost very little for the state to collect and it will
provide the most accurate data
necessary to provide public safety.
7) This accumulated data would be passed on to the National Department of
Transportation and
Highway Safety to assess the country's infrastructure and the personal
equipment in use and all the
impacts.
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8) The public can view their highway system and the condition of the vehicles
on it and decide
how they best would like their representatives to vote.
9) The same process would be done for the air pollution or release of
hazardous materials
division and reported to the state or local hazardous materials for immediate
attention and passed up the
ladder to national data basses and on to the public for them to decide how
they wanted to live.
AUTOMOTIVE AREA- CONTROLLER AREA NETWORKS -(CAN) or (PCM's)
Powertrain Control Modules inside the (PFN). Ideally the automobile's control
systems and as many
of the its IC modules as possible should be housed and enjoy a safe and secure
(PFN) containment and
would benefit by a protected interface. Most of all the eletronical
experimental work has been done with
GM vehicles and parts, so therefore the technical hardware interfacing
explained in any detail here will
be related to GM. However any and all vehicles either backward technologies or
the most up to date and
future technologies can be interfaced in the inventions (PFN's). One other
important note to remember
is that this interface discussion is centered on the automotive and trucking
industry. And that other
industries (PFN's) will be more thoroughly detailed in the third electrical
devices patent application. The
invention's processors and peripherals will be controlling and dealing with
motor controllers, etc. and
higher current levels of AC current.
The GM powertrain controller will have its connector and pin configuration
socket represented
in the drawings with all the other industries sockets as adaptive connections
for the modular trays to be
designed for and jointly bussed together. There are many other connectors
presently and the
manufactures will develop there most ideal way to tray them or
compartmentalize them in there specific
configurations. In fact, universal busses are going to simplify this process
in the near future anyway
,which will be completely described after this discussion on how the PFN wil!
access the standard
automobile sensors of present and all the accessories.
In the United States most all the auto manufactures use the SAE J 1850 as a
Mid speed (class B)
standard bus. but it is aimed at non real time communication and basically
used for diagnostics. Philips
Semiconductors, makes a product for this application their AU5780 which is a
J1850 transceiver and it
or any of these other Jl 850 buses could be used in the early (PFN's) To
transfer any stored trouble codes
in the Powertrain Control Module (PCM),Etc. in a digital binary code with what
ever software
conversions or augmentations that might prove best for the inventions computer
system to send it via
whatever onboard communication equipment it is to be routed through, e.g., Rf.
signal, pagers cell
phones, for a report back to service and environmental monitors or assistance
personnel, and to meet the
system requirements for the network nodes, e.g., ASCI, etc.
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have many
configurations for many systems even though things will always be more
universalized. This is to keep
The (PFN) current with the involved technologies. Automobile electrical
systems and communications
systems are still merging at an incredible pace and for this reason any
interface that links the two has to
be as flexible in its physical structure and electrical connections as well as
universal and simple as
10 possible. Fast approaching is the means to complete the most intricate
functions with these networks
interfaced with the least amount of hardware. And the invention is going to
discuss these hardware
connection systems it has been designed to utilize for this purpose as was
done for the communication
systems and the rudimentary automotive interfacing.
As mentioned earlier many advances have been made in the controller network
area and Philips
15 Semiconductors is one of the major semiconductor manufacturers in the world
and is a leader in In
Vehicle Networking (IVN) . Philips has many products based on Controller Area
Network (CAN) bus
protocol. Some are standard-setting receivers and deliver high ElectroMagnetic
Compatibility (EMC)
with low radiation levels for automotive applications. They have both single
wire CAN compliant
Transceivers AU5790 and the earlier AU5780 and 2 wire fault tolerant
transceivers PCA82C252,
20 TJA1053, a 2 wire high speed CAN transceiver PCA82C250. PCA82C251 highspeed
CAN transceiver
and a SJA 1000 Protocol controller.
Ultimately all interfacing will be easier though Telematics networking and the
best system in
all fields is the IEEE1394 bus. This is true for the electronics industries,
communications and the
automotive industry. Automotive connectors, and interfaces with controller
area net works (CANs) will
25 be greatly enhanced and simplified as well as be able to be stored more
efficiently. The IEEE1393 will
offer a high bandwidth, high speed communication services for real time data
transfer, which are all great
qualities to make the best most comprehensive, cost effective,efficient,
flexibly versatile (PFN) to meet
all commercial, public and individual needs and public safety concerns. This
system can also handle
audiovisual reporting in real-time extremely well for a (CAN) system. And, for
the low and mid-range
30 speed data transfers, the Universal serial bus is excellent and all of
these are discussed in their seperate
sections. Finally the Digital data Bus-Optical (D2B-0) is also another
promising telematics bus. It uses
a fiber optics system. Also the USB-IRDA.
EMERGENCY POWER INSIDE TJE~ (pFN)
35 In the first application the secure containment was provided an emergency
storage battery and
one way charging system to insure power to critical operations if the host
vehicle was to lose power. The
same consideration for the present (PFN) variations will be the case. It is
conceivable that one could
structure a (PFN) with out this emergency power feature by only creating an
interface of these two
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industries to report data or remotely control the host vehicle and not have
any emergency power supply
or battery backup, but even if this were the case it would still fall within
the nature and scope of the
invention if it were to be participatory in any (MMN) and or interface with
the (WWW)
However because of the many configurations that the invention's PFN can
manifest only the
components of the inventions charging systems and batteries will be detailed
in this application . The
first application details circuity for the basic deign and details the
qualities and properties, This
discussion will focus the main parts only and not the simple electrical
components or connections
Most of the inventions computers or controllers work on current from SVDC to
12VDC . This
power is provided from a regulated battery a Panasonic LCR12V2.2P and the
smaller Panasonic
LCR6V2.2p which when put in series with a draw switch/ charge switch can
directly power up laptops
and when the level of charge to the laptop battery equalizes with the two
Panasonic batteries it will
sustain a longer operating time in this parallel configuration with the Lap
top battery. Another option
here is provided by an on board inverter and the laptop transformer and
rectigier. It can charge the 18DC
of the two batteries in series. And when not energizing the computers
transformer rectifier it can be used
by the inventions prototypes to provide 120 volts AC. The one chosen for the
prototypes is the PROwatt
250/12 AC/DC inverter. When not in use to power a lap top this inverter is
powerful enough to energize
small portable heaters, small coffee makers and microwaves, heating blankets
even a bread maker for
emergencies and camping.
Because of the ease of having this power available and that it can operate lap
tops in a normal
wiring configuration as well as charge these back up batteries the PFN has
been designed to have a 110
-120 VAC plug in the front of the PFN for the additional accessories. Also a
special water proof socket
with properly shielded cable could supply power to an aesthetic plug socket on
the exterior to energize
small house utility requirements in an emergency, e.g., a few lights, electric
hotplate, very small fridge,
etc. This circuit is displayed in the drawings but their are many other
variations. And also the third
application details many of these variations in the peripheral circuitry for
the electrical devices on board
the host vehicles.
Either taped off the two batteries the 12 volt or the 6 volt and regulated to
many varied DC
voltage requirements between 1.5 DC all the way to 18VDC. Also multi bussing
will be provided for
two or more devices that have the same current requirements by the battery -
powered supply systems
MAX 714/715/716. The other modality for varied power levels is to tap off of
series NiCad or Lithium
Battery systems for less demanding (PFNs) and recharge them with MAXIM
NiCd/NiMH battery Fast-
Charge Controllers . Specifically the MAX712 and the 713 .
And finally as a accessory peripheral for the (PFN) to always have an external
charging source.
A solar cell array will be placed into the top surfaces of a vehicle in a
aesthetic configuration and the
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(PFN) will be provided a current sensing system that will wake up a pre-
programmed EEPROM and
microprocessor and it will automatically call out and give its last GPS
coordinates, or initiate a hot
reading to keep suppling hot GPS coordinates. This is activated if the car is
stolen or in an accident or
by a person activating the emergency communication mode for an SOS call or
911. The firmware or
software will also turn on a receiver so that if the SOS hail is received a
call can be given back to the
stranded motorist that help is on the way. If the system was triggered by a
theft prevention system this
return message would not be sent by the emergency services or the commercial
monitoring node. If the
person was in an area where they were not being received they could over ride
the SOS or 911 hail or
beacon and use the power to charge a dead battery or provide electrical
service for substance priorities.
1 S PRIMARY FOCAL NODES (PFN) DATA STORAGE HARDWARE
There are many compatible hard drives that could be added to the on board
computer products
picked thus far to beef up the ram. However, most of the computers planed for
in the vehicular or mobile
setting (PFN) are embedded systems and will have, for example, 8 megabytes in
their small euro board
configurations already, which is more than enough memory to hold most on the
standard programming.
It is only the additional programming like court directions for the
provisional driver and the permanent
record and or data storage of the provisional driver that need to be recorded.
The amount of this data
storage is greatly reduced by the provisional software parameters imparted
originally from the removable
storage disc, stick or magnetic tape systems that are all possible C.O.T.S.
products available. 'This data
storage will be ROM and writeable but not rewritable. It will be impossible to
write over or remove any
entries already existing. The reason for this is to provide evidentiary data
for judicial proceedings. On
the horizon and in the future some the smart cards will have greater data
capability and their is no telling
the capabilities of the new DNA computer technology as far as storage.
The storage space saving protocol will be initiated by, e.g., the court disk
software instructions
controlling the recording process to take place only when the driving
parameters are deemed violated.
At which time they are time and dated and given location coordinates stamped
along with what ever
is determined as monitorable necessary data input, e.g., vehicle speed, inside
cabin video, of the operator,
breathalyser readings as well as a request for fingerprint scan, any short
range highway info-
transmissions as to speed postings, lights run, etc., and on and on.
As already discussed earlier there will be at least two data storage areas on
board ultimately on
all standard (PFN) secure systems . One will have the highest priority and
coverage and have many legal
regulations governing its access and data stored, e.g., for the automotive
industry. It will carry all the
electronic serial numbers and pertinent data from the manufacture of the
vehicle, its active odometer
reading, a registration record of all the owners, scanned in service synopsis
data (a specially designed
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S protocol to universalize service reports) and in chronological order a total
record of any incident that an
approved public safety protocol deemed a necessity to document collect data
and record. Some of these
programs are: automated uniform report protocols for; Crimes (UCR's) Criminal
incidents captured
recordings in real time, vehicle service work orders and work completed
reports, standardized judicial
programs to asses reckless driving, substance abuse, aggressive driving,
pensive driving, watch dog
driving analyzing programs for suggested driver improvements
Watch dog programs for young driver restrictions for geographic areas and or
time frames, and
or speed or erratic acceleration or any of the aggressive behaviors, older
driver or impaired driver assist
programs. All these programs would be structured to not only to record with
all pertinent data retrieval
systems, but to report to a home computer, to law enforcement, or request for
emergency services.
All the systems for the hardware firmware and software either on the vehicle
or off board exist
today and only needs to be structured and utilized in the inventions described
manner for remote control
and accountability. As massive as this undertaking is the timing is perfect
for it to be achieved by the
industries ,the government and the public. And it will be cost effective
because all of the desired products
as well as this technologies innovations and functions are wanted and
happening in our present
commercial markets and they are the building blocks of this invention. This
organization, control and
total accountability is the right and responsible way for the world to
continue all its technical
development.
SONY'S "MEMORY STICK(TM)"
This product and some magnetic Disk products are going to be utilized for sure
in the (PFN)s
therefore they will be detailed specifically while all others that can
interface in the (PFN) by anyone
skilled in the art will only be listed , but are still considered to fall
within the nature and scope of the
invention
This next product is another Sony product and it is a tremendous asset to the
invention. First it
is smaller than a stick of chewing gum and its storage capacity is 5 times
greater than that of a standard
3.5 inch floppy disk. It is available in 4MB and 8Mb storage sizes and with a
PC adapter makes it easy
to connect as a C.O.T.S. product. PC card adapter (MSAC-PC 1 ) slide into an
ATA type II PC card slot
in Cameras or peripherals and also in to lap top computers if only the
transfer of data is desired. However
the connecting surfaces can be duplicated to provide a socket for plug in and
removal versatility as a
resident storage device for any serial data transfer with on board systems
The stick was designed to be used with small digital audio/video electronics
products, e.g.,
digital cameras handy cams, ect., and with the 8MB memory stick up to 160
digital images can be saved
on one memory stick. It is highly reliable which is important for legal use.
It will be useable with newer
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S technologies because of its original serial protocol and it is being
designed in the future to incorporate
digital copyright protection which will be great for legal applications. It
has a 10- pin connector, and for
the 8MB stick and PC card interface.
Sony also has another product called the link. It is a digital interface that
meets the latest IEEE
interface 1394 specifications. This provides high speed and easy interfacing
for audio and digital
products to be linked to computers in a single small cable which will allow
for space saving data transfer
and control for all the peripherals, e.g., cameras remotely directed from any
on board computers.
Through the link multiple formats are possible to simultaneously transmit
digital video, digital audio,
DID, DSS and special command controls to operate AV equipment remotely. This
high speed data link
can operate at speeds of 100, 200, or 400 Mbps(MCGA bits per sec). However,
the slowest connected
component speed will dictate the system operation speed. What is nice about
this combination of
components is that they will easily fulfill the C.O.T.S. Interfacing for this
data storage or peripheral
operation because they all have a compatible matrix.
FOR ONBOARD PERMANENT DATA STORAGE.
At present the permanent storage system will also be a Sony product which is a
magneto optical
disk drive (MO)disk drive . This disk is coated with a special coating that is
magnified at a very high
temperature. Approximately art 300 degrees. It is extremely reliable and low
cost for MCGA byte of
storage. This technology is not easily effected by other magnetic fields and
it requires 300 degrees to
write to the disk, which is provided by a laser. If desired it can be written
over many millions of times
unlike the traditional CD rom or CD-R. The MO drive is versatile in it's
recording capability it can be
a rewritable device or a once only record which is probably how it will
perform its judicial functions.
It also uses a disc cartridge that can be exchanged. This is also a desired
feature for evidence the magneto
optical disk drives can be used with most all platforms and operating systems.
It is an excellent storage
device for Audio/video, document imaging, graphics, CAD/CAM, medical imaging,
digital video,
multimedia Accounting, banking and legal records.
This storage system could make any of the inventions (PFN) a vehicle computer
system that
could complete any need imaginable. The whole drive is only 5.25 inches high
and can be easily
compartmentalized in the (PFI~. However this unit is being considered as a
permanent storage system
and not for rewrite. Sony provides write once media which is WORM media part #
CWO-2600 2.6 GB
their are 3 other WORM write once media but this provides the largest data
storage. The Sony product
number for the MO drive is RMO-S594/DWPS.
There is also other Drives CD-R's and Hard Drives that could be employed
easily in the (PFN)
and any mentioned products are purely preferential and not limiting.
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The software will be explained as all the functions that will be performed by
the on board
devices and off board devices and systems including the data transfers. The
specific programming will
be designed and created by for all the specific devices but the functions they
will command will be
described presently.
10 In one modality by having timely performance checks that can be run through
onboard hardware
initiated by onboard and/or offboard software through comiinks, that control
sensing devices which are
able to communicate this data back to monitoring support systems that can
augment it with up-to-date
software and diagnostic data/devices either directly or by networking with
other servers. The host
vehicle will be able to assimilate this and its own gathered data from in and
outboard sensor devices to
15 record and report on its own road worthiness, while issuing warnings and/or
repair orders to the driver
and local mechanic as well as telecommunicate this data to the proper
authorities or commercial servers.
This will also include a report on its impact on the environment and loss of
vital and/or toxic
substances. Presently, the automobiles have sensors for judging fuel mixture
and exhaust components
which are still primitive, however, this data would serve to start this
process as it is already being used
20 in the manufacturer's engine control circuits/software and trouble code
process which will serve as the
point of origin.
With more sophisticated sensors and advances in the microprocessors (pentium
by Intel, sensor
arrays and/or spectrographic sensor arrays and light sensors) the present
invention may be provided data
by interfacing with these devices, which can provide distinct electronic
signatures of molecular structures
25 to the preprogrammed mini computer and/or processor so it can identify
specific chemical compounds.
This wilt give the secure StopBlackBilling box,(PFN) the ability to recognize
the hydrocarbons, nitrous
oxides, carbon monoxide and other significant toxic chemicals and heavy metals
which are the by
products of our fossil fuel energy consumption. These standard devices exist
today and will have to be
a part of tomorrow's vehicles for any internal combustion engine.
30 Of course, as other energy supplies are incorporated into and/or along
with, our evolving power
train systems they to would have to be analyzed, and have standards set as to
their acceptable impact and
appraised and cost for that impact and material resource use. This data
gathered by this ever flexible and
evolving billing box (PFN) would be forwarded from either any commercial
servers and/or monitoring
firms to government agencies, and/or these government agencies could have
their own phone nodes.
35 That could be contacted directly either by the preprogrammed software
onboard in the secure billing box
system (PFN), or by a software interface with the mini computer {or stamp II
and/or more advanced
substitute computer) that was preprogrammed to send a standard dialed number
to a simplified cell phone
dialer or fax modem or onboard cellphone transceiver, and also send a code to
this phone link system to
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transmit and dial the number. The minicomputer would then open an interface
with the host vehicles
programmable controller unit and the fax modem onboard with the offboard
servers hardware/software
sending signals to trigger latches or initiate software to have the host-
vehicles send preprogrammed data
that is to be provided per servers requests. This data would be placed into an
understandable and
ultimately universal format to be designed and agreed upon by industry and the
IEEE and any necessary
government agencies. Until this was done the invention would serve to convert
it in much the same way
that computers today convert text file for different word processors. However
the initial goal will to be
create a cooperative setting to best accommodate all the manufactures
configurations, and seek to
standardize.
Ideally this would all be housed in the secure and legally protected area as
described for the
Stopbox/Black boxBilling box inventions. But, it is still with in the nature
and scope of invention, that
due to the varied amounts of different equipment and configurations that these
interfaces are all that is
needed to fulfill the nature and scope of this invention, and that in time,
these systems and devices would
be consolidated and secured in the above ways as has been described through
out these applications.
This data received from the secure billing box would be compared to specific
and acceptable
levels of operations. This criteria already exist today as mandated by the US
government through EPA
standards for the automotive industry, however, this invention will create the
need to augment and
improve the acceptable parameters for these fossil fuel users and newer energy
systems and drive trains
to be analyzed through legitimate science health and government agencies as
well as industry testing for
all equipment.
Presently, we have anti-lock brakes that can tell when one tire is locking up
and it controls or
limits the braking on that wheel through a small IC circuit by small AC
generators situated to sense
movement on a disk attached to the wheel, and sense speed for each wheel by
the current it generates
in newer application these are digital or TTL sensed and read signals).
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the invention monitors
this braking data
and has a program either in a manufacturer controller/computer, or in the
invention with an analytical
software program that could denote subtle changes in repeated brake
applications under consistent
circumstances that would trigger a warning notice to the driver to check tire
tread/pressure as well as
specific wheel braking problems.
These warnings of course would be recorded and as the onboard program in the
box recognizes
this condition, worsening it would be reported by the Bill box computer (PFN)
which would create a
communicative interface with any cellphone technology being employed and
notify any predetermined
mechanical service and the proper authorities simultaneously, if necessary,
also an onboard and outboard
set of descriptive lights would be illuminated (the inventions Info-Bar
Product) to inform all other
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operators with in sight of this possible equipment failure and emergency
situation, e.g., an information
bar or notification bar on a back bumper or rear window. And of course,
sensors for the brake fluid levels
would also be incorporated in this same system and set of programs.
This information bar is another product that is designed to help communication
on the crowded
highways to better help people to be more social. Though a voice recognition
program, or small key
board, or selected preprogram messages package, a diver would be able to
create or select a message he
wanted to send a driver behind him, it is conceivable to have these info bars
placed on the side or even
written back wards so a driver in front could read a message. These would
employ a C.O.T.S. product
known as a scroll bar or similar device designed to work on l2vdc and a soft
ware disk or running
program to write the messages in to the buffer or a voice recognition program
with an algorithm to
convert the voice to a digital format and on to the scroll bars micro
processor for the lighted message
display. (Note this device should be designed not to write expletives or
derogatory phrases to reduce road
rage and the chance for some one to shoot your lights out. The system will be
designed to stay below
the rear window brake light height and be on either side for retro fitting or
in newer cars incorporated
in to this brake light. This info bar has been created and will be used by the
invention to give warnings
to outside drivers in any emergency and or remote control protocol. However
this device has real
aftermarket value presently.
With the technical advancements continually becoming cost effective for all
electronics, e.g.,
sensors of all types, video capture equipment and especially digital camera
systems, having a computer
camera in the wheel wells for monitoring the condition of the tire in real
time motion with these new
computer chip cameras, can be made practical and reality for use today. These
devices will be used in
the interactive highways and smart cars as some prototype video cams are
employed at Berkeley/MIT.
in present day experimental vehicle. However, one modality of the invention's
design is to aim these
cameras so that the camera can capture road edge/surface and view the wheel
thus making monitoring
a reduced hardware cost immediately and more practical. This would be done by
the bill box computer
(PhN) or any smart car computer prioritizing created software to analyze these
specific activities, and
if necessary, in order to direct the cameras servo motors or mini solenoids to
affect camera angle. These
external video systems would also be used with the community" spider eyes"
program ( 1100 and 1200
series devices for capturing and storing any incidents, e.g., highway
accidents and or crime incidents to
be passed on in real time or at some later date. These video peripherals are
detailed in the third patent
which details all onboard electrically controlled devices for automation and
remote control.
Of course, any data determined by onboard software to indicate an operational
hazard would be
sent from the invention to the driver as a warning or notice for his or her
acceptance which would be
logged and reported to all necessary devices and parties on board and off
board, e.g., PFN storage
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systems, surrounding drivers, Government traffic, andlor environmental
agencies that were operating any
interactive highways, remote control or robotics systems and/or any mechanical
monitoring service
connection or national program the driver is enrolled in or commercially
participating with for insured
road service.
This could be accomplished by the invention's ability to activate the cell
phone technologies as
a link and/or Itf. signal that would either first contact a specific local
provider or a commercial
communication server node or a predetermine network service provider node
(e.g., an OnStar program)
and/or a direct node that all the minicomputers will be preprogrammed to call
under a specified set of
circumstances, e.g., #77 or a government run emergency service number this
could even open a verbal
dialogue with any of these support servers to help aid an operator in distress
and remotely augment uses
and functions on the host piece of equipment. This last option is part of the
local state and national
monitoring and control system that will involve interactive highway systems
with short and long range
communication equipment for, environmental, traffic and law enforcement
computers with data
management software provided and maned by all thee levels of government.
This personnel and mass data storage and a communicative network will mass
pertinent data on
to the state mass data management system, their watch dog personnel and mass
data storage and then on
to any national management, and their watch dog personnel and mass storage
data bases. Of course their
will be priorities parameters established for any passing on of data and
specific criterion governing the
form that data is stored either in the (PFN) or any of the levels of this
monitoring and control system
network (1000 -1200 series system) which will be owned by the public and
operated by government and
commercial personnel. In the mass storage section of this application the
systems hard ware and existing
software will be further explained as to how this can be accomplished
presently and developed into the
future. Most of the mass data structuring exist today in private commercial
computer data bases and in
government data bases.
The invention claims as proprietary specified services and charges comparative
tools.
Accompanying these mechanical/warning reports, a consumer could request a
report of suggested cost
for any such repairs that would be made available and printed for the driver
and mechanic shop
simultaneously as an additional service. The driver could also ask for more
service options or have this
covered through pre-purchased service agreements with the monitoring service
or their OEMs, and then
handled by their support mechanic services or subcontractors in the immediate
area (e.g., like an HMO
program for cars).
With the ability for the operator to interface PCS through the invention, it
would be possible for
the manufacture or after marketers to supply software in any form, e.g., disc
or diskettes, or through any
com link and/or port to help the operator, local mechanic or any consumer or
server to run their own
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diagnostic flow chart system, and have an integrity check on any stated
repairs needed or any work order
mandates by any governing authorities responsible for assessing highway and/or
environmental safety
in real time as well as, mechanical service suppliers and these related costs.
Ultimately with the (MMN) interfaced with the (WWW) and creating an
interactive set of web
sites that can aid a troubled motorist with all kinds of service and advice
and consumer protection. So
when all these web sites are set up they must register with the (NIC) and all
state and national governing
business licencing agencies and report all their fee for service calls to be
compared to (PFN) service
retained data stored to account for these services through the invention and
for any resale of the vehicle
and also to disclaim any bogus phone provider charges for the individual
owner.
The monitoring GPS public system might be ideal for monitoring drunk or
restricted drivers
personal control of a vehicle at any given time, with onboard
recording/reporting. This could be a
municipality product forced to be purchased by the questionable operator as a
condition of their driving
privilege, or even a pre-accepted prorating insurance pricing tool for certain
drivers and/or driving
conditions, e.g., work only restrictions, Day time driving only, a habitual
speeder, and the like.
The present invention may be used to monitor that person and report back to
insurance and legal
authorities and could employ the ticket on the spot automated feature of the
Black and billing box, as
well as stop and control this drivers actions in real time. In these specific
restrictive monitor
applications, the new finger print ID in the steering wheel or small ID
transmitter bracelet, or a special
ID and/or credit card swipe card with or without pin number, would be employed
along with any
audio/video recording/reporting systems that can be activated on the vehicle
through the invention to
identify the driver and initiate any agreed upon and/or legally mandated pre-
programmed software
systems stored onboard or part of any communicative network.
RETRO FIT (PFl~ BILLING BOX PRODUCT
The system depicted in Figure 3 is an ideal retrofit billing box (PFN)
designed to be purchased
and supplied software to monitor conditional drivers and account for their
presence AND ACTIONS TO
THE COURTS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES. This same system can perform a phone to
credit card
acceptance service which would work extremely well for taxis and busses and
mass transportation
applications to allow the rider to pay on a credit card and for the companies
to check the validity in real
time; also a fee could be collected for the use of this service as a condition
of licence or use.
For use in the court system or for insurance companies, use a specific driver
software program
format would be constructed and would be downloaded with any pre-recorded
court directions
instructions and conditions of driving which could be activated by software
and then search a particular
individual vehicle system and locate any of these specific devices and
functions that might be available
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activate them specifically by the
authorities's (now) onboard directions or any remote control of them by server
node and law
enforcement, as well as give direct communications to the specific
questionable operators.
Other devices to be interfaced with this invention are breath sensors or
analyzers that would be
attached to any of these secure stop and control(PFN) systems for further
monitoring of a questionable
10 driver, as well as incorporated in vehicles for standard drivers which
could ask the driver to self test and
initiate a controlled slow down to stop and secure the vehicle in a stationary
position. These on the
vehicle systems are detailed and forthcoming in the third patent filing.
Persistent attempts to defeat the system will be judged by law enforcement as
whether it is a
driver behavioral situation or machine error and the proper data will be
retrieved from the vehicle and
15 support (MMN) source providers and presented to the proper authorities if
necessary while all the proper
service and emergency personnel will dispatched all in real-time.
Simultaneously, the present invention
will store a private record and notify preprogrammed server numbers and
authorities mass data
management of this real time incident. So there is two ways records are stored
and these files can be
merger compared and consolidated by an approved public policy modality.
20 This system will need to have specified legal parameters for acceptable
levels of a particular
chemical substance which can be addressed to the public in general, and to the
individual specifically
which will be determined by government municipalities, qualified medical, and
insurance companies and
the individuals own physical characteristics which might mandate the amount of
operator control and
necessary monitoring they will be allowed and thereby automatically licensed
for.
25 Of course these systems could be adjusted by any preprogrammed legal
messages in the same
manner as already described earlier, andlor augmented locally in real-time for
any changed operational
conditions, as per the conditions sensed for the driver with relation to their
vehicle and environment and
their legally licensed privilege to operate and control that vehicle. This
allows for more freedom to aid
our impaired individuals not just a method to allow drunks their private
transportation but with this
30 automation that will protect society comes greater freedoms for all
individuals (impaired and or
unimpaired (self inflicted or a condition of life) to function in this ever
increasing and complex machine
world. Once again Rights, Freedom, and Responsibility will outline the
software functions and the
invention is only the tool (PFN) and the system by which society provides for
its public safety and
individual freedoms in an efficient and hopefully in a fair and just manner.
35 Through this automated control design system to help the impaired of this
world, we can
empower that individual with as much freedom and privilege as they possess at
any particular time by
controlling and recognizing their impaired states and conditionalizing their
individual control and
negative impact, no matter whether it is a new driver, older driver, acutely
ill driver, chronically ill driver
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or a deceptively ill driver. Through this analytical monitoring, the present
invention may make the driver
and the proper authorities aware of an operator's impairment due to social,
emotional or a purely physical
impairments, and affect the correct and supportive response that may be deemed
appropriate, and all in
real-time.
With the priority on total public safety through prescribed levels of
monitoring and control with
recorded/reported incidence functions through the invention's onboard
interfaced devices and systems,
and presently here described and designed oi~board interfaced systems, this
network (MMN) completes
a total interaction for humanity and its machines. This brings the objective
auto tutor to the individual
operator by bringing his actions to his own attention, as well as to any and
all appropriate others in the
appropriate manner.
There should also be driver notification of these brief operational
conditions/warnings so the
driver will be asked to accept, and thereby be given a real-time meaning to
the legal phrase that
"ignorance of the law is no excuse". This (PFN) by receiving interactive
highway transmissions
(probably universalized set frequency) on the multiban scanning receiver also
interfaced in the
containment would incorporate a continued monitor on the speed limits, and
allow warning sound or
alerts to remind the driver and/or augment and adjust speed control devices,
e.g., cruise control, special
fuel valves, and many other devices detailed in the third patent application.
Only if the appropriate
distances were perceived and or the driver did not over ride this process by
squeezing a pass or panic
button (to allow for the driver to speed greater than the speed limit dictated
by the robotic highway
systems. This behavior while allowable would be monitored and analyzed for
appropriate circumstantial
operational parameters through a soft ware compare list which was also
responsive to any transmissions
received by the automated highway request for assistance program monitoring
individual vehicle
progress on the system through shot range IZF communications housed in the
(PFN) .
There also will be provided programs to identify too much aggressive driving
by recognizing tail
gating by proximity sensors, out board camera systems, and the number of times
they are activated by
unsafe speeding, as well as sudden jerking and swerving detected by level
sensors that sense fluctuations
in any tranquil fluid state in the fluid systems reserves, or by mercury
activated contacts that activate on
pitch and yaw of the vehicle, and or any inertia sensors provided by the OEM.
as well as individual
monitoring of the diver's , body heat elevated voice levels, expletives and or
key phases at the proper db
level to indicate driver agitation with a traffic environment (through any
onboard voice recognition
technology and software parameters provided for this purpose).
The program is beneficially and optionally interfaced through the invention to
any other
available accessories that sense erratic vehicle chassis movement and is
designed to warn the operator
through the electrical system Instrument panel enunciator or on Board LCD
displays. Once the base
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systems software recognizes a problem and alerts the driver to his behavior,
the invention (PFN) will
next detenmine if it needs to augment an aggressive driver program in real-
time from onboard data files
or off board commercial servers (insurance company data transfer nodes and
public safety providers (law
Enforcement nodes or monitoring highway safety system nodes). This sets ups an
automated triage of
response actions to alert and create a communication link for monitoring and
responding to defuse and
deactivate the operator's negative impact on the public's safety in real time.
These modalities are
previously described and further detailed in the third following application.
INSURANCE SERVICE PRODUCT
The insurance companies will be able to accurately asses all the areas they
insure and make sure
that they are costing the appropriate companies, government infrastructure and
system and the individual
pubic in the most accurate way and with the most up to date real time
individual policy rates. The
insurance research institute can identify costly equipment quickly and provide
consumer alerts in a rapid
fashion (this will save money for everyone).
Standard bio-behavioral telemetry sensors may be used to monitor the occupants
and the operator
for many body functions, e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, Body temperature,
audio screams or verbal
expletives, or even video of the driver ripping the head liner out of his car
in frustration.
Note : All these sensor devices mentioned are considered more thoroughly in
the 1000 series
parts of the third on board and out board electrical devices patent
application, And therefore in many
cases only referenced in this second application as device embodiments that
are controlled or interfaced
with The (PFN) to report too; for record keeping, as well as, to give feed
back for the (PFN) software to
perform automated function's on the host vehicle or trans mitt back through
the control system (MMN).
The parameters for blood alcohol already exit in most states and could be
augmented through
research to incorporate any and all substances that can impair diver
operation. The invention would be
able to recognize these physical properties in people through breath analysis,
molecular analysis of
perspiration, changes through galvanic sensors, thermal sensors that
unobtrusively can accurately sample
skin surface for these chemical compounds and there synthesized by products
and thermal changes, and
assign a specific and distinct electronic signal. Or the processor would
recognize changes in conductivity
variations e.g. some thermal sensors. And all the standard sensors that could
create an electrical signal
for body temperature and pulse monitors to report on heart rate and finally
even blood pressure sensors
These devices would be driven by preprogrammed software that is looking for
specific physical
characteristics for a particular individual's body and/or general
characteristic that are known to be
established characteristics for everyone in life or a particular state e.g., a
drunk losing consciousness, and
the like. The purpose of this, of course, is to help those, who are ill or
impaired and might need more
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close monitoring when they are using any of their privilege to operate
equipment, e.g., heart patient,
diabetic person, who has seizures. Once again this would not generally be used
to punish any individual.
The present invention would be employed just to support the ability of a
driver to operate with
the correct levels of monitoring and automated control to ensure everyone's
safety and the individual's
timely care, while preserving their individual freedom as much as possible.
The invention will be individually user friendly as an auto tutor to allow the
individual to first
appraise his or her actions and augment their own activities, until the
invention's software identifies a
preprogrammed level of unacceptable parameters that denote a public danger.
And it is here when an
individual seems to have some difficulties that they are reviewed first and
given help and finally
restricted and/or punished for their unacceptable behavior with equipment if
warranted.
These processes and functions could be performed by any vehicle computer
system and
processed by any software at any level in a (PFN), and as these systems
advance and can recognize
vehicle movement with respect to environment and can affect any kind of
automated control, e.g.,
remotely or onboard systems to safely operate any piece of equipment within
acceptable, safe guidelines
their utilization in this fashion should be considered part of this invention
and fall within the nature and
scope of this invention.
For reasons of personal privacy and Iegal considerations, these devices and
software (PFN)
should be secured in the manner that has been described for all these
inventions, e.g., stopbox, blackbox,
billing box. This invention and its uses will require the public and public
policy makers to develop legal
guidelines to constitutionally guarantee that its use is not abused by any
governing body and/or
commercial interest, and that it is always operated with the individuals
approval where this is
necessitated by law, or in a manner that clearly is required for public
safety. Also, with these inventions
in mind there will be a sensor array design as part of the steering device
that allows the operator to
control the vehicle while being monitored for vital signs and awareness, pulse
and pressure through a
finger device.
The present invention also supports any software systems that monitor an
operator in any way
as previously described, andlor coupled together through any of the
invention's computer interfaces, and
driven by any appropriate software to combine and utilize these earlier stated
devices with state of the
art sensors, such as IBM's papillary fluctuation sensor, the standard beep
sleeper alert with a short range
transmitter to the (PFN) which receives a head nod signal, and the same for a
wireless elastic armband
blood pressure cup that has a COZ cartridge or compressed air canister and
electronic 2 way valve with
a microprocessor energized with a AA battery that is preprogrammed to
pressurize and depressurize the
band and send a short range radio signal to the (PFN) to either display the
reading or to trigger software
to control the vehicle and call for help ,ect. The C.O.T.S. product "The
nose", used for atmospheric
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cabin analysis, can sniff and identify 2000 times greater than the humans
noses all the way to the
molecular level and provide a distinct electronic digital signal for
identifying substances and compounds
for the (PRN) computer's software to process. And of course any of the already
mentioned standard
drug testing devices, and/or audiovisual devices or any device that can sense
consistent head angle
and/or alertness, coupled with any software that can compile any data
retrieved either digitally, through
any computer language, or any type of electronic signal that correlates to
human movement for which
either software or preprogrammed controllers can recognize as a possible
compromised driver.
The invention will then either take control completely of the vehicle after
warning the driver,
or put it into the shut down mode and alert the authorities, or even in the
legally authorized application
lock the doors as programmed, turn on the dome light, and drive an offender
back to jail. In the event
that it is a medical emergency, the invention will optionally take control of
the vehicle and safely stop
it or direct it to the appropriate health support facility, while alerting,
recording, reporting and/or
ticketing the driver if applicable.
As the secure stop control/black/billing box (PFN) and sensor systems the
become the industry
standard, a questionable driver may be monitored in any vehicle, and his
identity would condition his
driving privileges in that vehicle, as well as record his performance and
report to any authorities or
service providers on his activities. The present invention will also help in
properly affixing insurance
costs and law enforcement measures.
Of course, the same kinds of programs could be structured for the pensive
driver, and this would
also include an outside operator appraisal response which could record other
surrounding drivers, their
responses, and the environment. In addition, vehicle speed and movement as
well as any call-in
information from surrounding vehicles, either by direct or indirect
communication links, e.g., a low noise
RF FM device with limited range that uses the host vehicle power and this
invention's processes and
comlinks as a automated message switching repeater station.
This repeater station is in every vehicle and equipment's {PFN) receiving any
short-range
transmission which it processes and then sends this signal or message via the
cell phone for immediate
911 attention and vehicle recording. The software in the (PFN) will record all
pertinent and current data
when it dials out a 911 distress call. Because the invention recognized early
that the integrated highway
systems could use short range low noise FM transmissions to deliver messaging
to the vehicles there has
been plans to incorporate a mufti channel transceiver for this purpose. Prior
to these designs awearlier
product design was experimented with by the inventor called the TOT SPOT, The
Hunt Well, The Pet
Path finder, and the Friend Finder. As is obvious by there names they were
people locating devices or
locating device for a lost pet. They were also simplistic in design and not
very reliable. The system was
two small CB transceivers originally CB channel 14. one of the transmitters
was outfitted with a micro
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which when it received this
signal immediately keyed up the microphone circuit on the transceiver. This
allowed the receiver portion
of the originating unit to pick up the keyed up transmission and by watching a
signal strength meter an
individual could turn in a circle and locate the direction of the unit with
the keyed up mic. This worked
very well for a bout a half mile.
10 This system was also designed to key up the microphone circuit if a water
sensor detected water,
e. g., a child fell into water it would send a signal out. And other designs
were to allow a group of
hunters to turn on all other hunters in the are transmitters before shooting
while watching a directional
gauge to see if anyone was in the line of fire. This crude device has always
had possibilities, but is really
much more valuable by the advent of the inventions (PFN) and better radio
technologies available today.
15 Many frequencies could work well but this is a question for a number of
government agencies and the
FCC to structure as a standard and regulation for this product development.
NOTE: This is not the same product mentioned earlier the people pointer,
however it is also a
personal locating device. The people pointer is a pager and GPS technology
that could be water proof
and outfitted with the same water sensors or similar.
20 This Rf transmitter system will rely on a second coded signal that will
after a short look around
by a concerned parent with their locator watch or belt clip unit; send this
coded signal to activate the
emergency 911 beacon signal, which will be recognized by any (PFN) equipped
piece of equipment
within reception distance ofthe keyed up coded signal unit. All receiving
vehicles will instantaneously
call into a 911 computer specially set up to center focus all the calls and
dispatch emergency services
25 there immediately
More sophisticated units could also have GPS chip sets and send earth
coordinates as well .
These units could be purchased and the service could be a non-charitable
minimum for all ceIlphone
customers as a base government tax. In fact, there are many more 911 protocols
that should be
considered non chargeable to the private customer, e.,g., highway emergencies
ect. and this is already
30 the cases with cellphone users able to report troubled motorist for free by
pressing *77 or *71 in some
states.
For the highway systems some of these short range frequencies should be
dedicated specifically
for these purposes as well as for these short range transmissions for other
911 protocols to be relayed or
repeated. And specific laws have to be set for society to respect and not
abuse or unnecessarily over tax
35 these very crucial public safety systems. And This is also part of the 1100
"Spider Eyes system" for Law
enforcement and the (MMN).
So in summary these short distinct signals are interpreted for an appropriate
emergency response
and through this invention's(PFN) computer initiates a call into emergency
services while also giving
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GPS Data or triangulated focus to locate lost children and or could be use to
track non violent offenders
as a condition of their release in society.
Some other possibilities for the communication link may take the form of a
multi-band smart
transceiving scanner (with a controller) that would rapidly use different
tuning crystals and bands
separating program responses and save computer size and capacity cost and
complicated software these
would all be pre-programmed and prescribed protocols from the FCC and other
agencies. This would
allow for many of different RF equipment to access this RF transceiver and
help in identifying and
locating people and things, e.g., another emergency response protocol other
than location coordinates
would be to activate outboard cameras and audio systems on all responding
(PFN) vehicles/equipment
to better track an emergency signal visually appraise it in real time without
dispatching server/provider
1 S personnel either unnecessarily or inappropriately.
ELECTRONIC ACCOUNTABILITY FOR EQUIPMENT/VEIHICLE COMPONENTS
The present invention creates efficiency and reduces public cost which will
always have to be
the goal of any basic service. Ultimately for public safety some agreed upon
version of this equipment
will be required. And to the provide the proper controls each vehicle
registered will have an electronic
serial number and vehicle identification number (ESN/VIN) followed by all
other peripheral devices
interfaced by their serial numbers unless another ESN is involved. This will
always appear in any header
print screen or hard copy record for official record stored. Also listed are
any and all state registrations
and tag numbers form the most recent backwards. Some of the most crucial data
will be bar coded on
the external port communication port for a double check for any o~cial
queries. And just recently an
Identification chip designed in Europe is being used by some manufactures so
that even parts can be
scanned to see if they are stolen. This system if employed more widely could
provide with the inventions
system an integrity check for a totally vehicle in minutes.
These numbers exist today and are used in the separate industries and the
state governments also
have their set of numbers. An every product manufactured is serial numbered.
So all that is really
necessary for this most needed control system is to have this information as
part of any install program
when a product is interfaced and when the vehicles system is queried with a
legitimate request it will
tell all the components on board and all that have been on board and their
date of install and the date of
first recognized absence during a reboot of the system. Also any trouble codes
stored as for their on
board performance. This will put a serious crimp in stolen parts market. In
fact, stolen parts reported will
be entered and any data transfers that recognize and stolen serial number in a
compare list process will
id the vehicle using the device and alert a flag for law enforcement to
pursue.
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AFTER MARKET BILL BOX
This add on device was designed to be a retrofit to be used for court
restricted drivers and also
as a pay for use billing box for renting time and electronically customized
services and for receiving
payment from reading a magnetic credit card for the use or service of a piece
of equipment or service
provided by a piece of equipment like a ride in a cab, bus or limo. This is
depicted in figure 3 and was
submitted in this first provisional and described in the first filing for the
related applications
Along with the varied monitoring sensors, the invention would have a credit
card swipe device
along with the earlier version number pad so that an operator can access and
could purchase remote
system services and pay for any tax charges or any alternative energy charges
through the credit card
swipe. This swipe and key pad credit card device, like the one in use in the
stores today, in one modality
would be combined with a standard cell phones and it's keypad and have a swipe
groove right down the
side of the hand held receive and mouth piece instrument to ease the
operator's ability to become current
with any charges due.
Of course less expensive part time cell phone technologies could be employed,
as well as only
pager related systems that have one and or two way communication, which would
inform the billing box
of an expired credit card and also tell the box it must only except payment
through a specific authorized
card and record it, or it would limit or deactivate the use or uses in a safe
manner. The present invention
will be offered to the loan, rental, Cabs, limousines, busses, and leasing
companies and further described
in the commercial use area of this application also discussed in the earlier
stop box application described
incorporated herein by reference, as to control the use of equipment to equal
the payment received. This
is a unique claim to this invention, and it has always been designed for this
in mind from the inception.
These are the credit card swipe systems that will be used for these two credit
card billing devices
and a list of products that could easily be interfaced in any of the (PFN)
systems to create this function
for future vehicles not requiring a retrofitted box. The first C.O.T.S. parts
that will be used in the billing
box system for commercial retrofitting are all from Uniform Industrial
Corporation and these magnetic
strip card readers are all in the ACETEK Series, they read magnetic strip
conform to ISO 7811 format,
they are manual swipe, bi-directional read with TTL output, Some are RS232,
they can also read dual,
triple and JIS (dual) track design. They read high and low coercive force
magnetic strip (300~4000Oe)
555 inch per second swipe speed,SVDC and they have various designs for
positive access/ security
systems ect. They are certified CE, FCC, UL, cUL. Another system that is a
space save and will see
service in the (PFN) bill box in is Uniforms industrial Corporation insert
Type Magnetic Card Reader
MSR 140 series. It has all the same specs electronically except it operates on
9vdc all of these voltages
are easily provided in the interface (PFN) or box. And one other that works
directly with a key board
operation is the MRS200 which has a simulate interface and can read DMV cards
For police car systems
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S or the restricted driver licence verification. Also another device is the
Personal Pin pad ID number pad
290/390 series it operates on SVDC and it has a LCD display. The swipe cards
will be connected to a
F2F Decoder ASIC MRD S 10/S20 in the cell phone handset and be routed to a
special phone node for
credit card approval software that can process the digital data and any
encrypted security algorithms
either part of the credit card companies services or a software program run by
private companies to
process the card through the cell phone hand set receiver. This will not be
the case in the box or any PFN
system because space will not be an issue and the decoder chip and hardware
will be accommodated
everything. However, this is only one modality and their is always
miniaturization and the combing of
functions by the manufacture so ultimately the card swipe will be processed
completely in the hand set
and there are others planned for experimental prototyping presently.
1 S Some of the other systems that can be used are FBS Solutions, they have
two models that will
work,. All these devices supply there own software drivers to connect them to
any PC. or in this case to
the Bill box (PFN) mini computers where the software files would be down
loaded to
Also as has been the practice in describing all of the inventions components
and categories it is
important to address the evolution gained in the magnetic Card industry .
Presently the Smart cards on
the market are becoming much more affordable with their micro cache's and they
can carry much more
data. Ideally the invention would like to use either Lockheed's advance
fingerprint recognition system
and or IBM's finger print scan system and have this as verifiable licences
data to be scanned and
retrieved through the (PFN) card reading system as the car ignition device.
this data would be compared
and confirmed by a closed seat occupancy switch and an occupied finger socket,
pad or thaw on the
2S steering wheel for a positive driver placement behind the wheel at the time
of ignition and driving.
THE MACHINE MESSAGING NETWORK is an input data recovery monitoring system from
all the individual vehicles, equipment, and machines (PFN)'s to already
existing mass data management
and storage systems for public safety, on the highways, for it's management of
crime in society, and, to
preserve this planets environmental state to support human life.
The off board mass data systems already exist and in many cases are already
networked and
interfaced with each other governmentally, in the banking industry and also in
the insurance industry and
in many other related industries due to a lot of the present commercial
mergers. The hardware and
software will be described in this section to demonstrate and provide how the
invention can greatly aid
the information technology highways presently and to best control and organize
these newly emerging
3S Machine Messaging system's data input for the future.
The Machine Messaging Network technology combines all existing commercial
control systems
for remote, services, machine controls, tracking, telemetry, all monitoring,
and or accounting systems
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that are processed through any communication medium to conform to a (process
copy protocol) for
government mass data management and store systems.
The protocols are to be structured by the governing agencies and computer
systems requirements
and the public service functions the agencies govern. They will be given a
simple Uniform Format by
which information is entered, screened, and routed for public presentation and
stored for any archive
purpose. This will comprise the National Data Mass Management and Storage
System (NDMMSS).
These Agencies listed in the accompanying U.S. Federal Government Directory as
figure 2A is 27 pages
in length and each and everyone of them can be clicked on and supports a web
page on the Internet for
public access.
They will supply data back as web pages for local municipalities, for the
states Web page and
for the National Web page. These will be Public Account Web Pages (PAWP's)
which will be supported
through mosaic and hypertext technologies in use on the Internet today. The
specific data will be
provided by the federal agencies on the Area Relevant Data Acquisition and
Report(RDAR) protocol that
will have as part of its architecture an National Security Review Flag (NSRF),
which should be presented
for any information that is absent.
The invention creates (the public account web page system (the PAWP's)
products which
provides the machine messaging network (the mmn) into a complete and total
accountable system for
society. This product is also structured to make the agencies and government
officials or anyone;
available for the public to interactively e-mail through the bulletin board
technology that is available
today on the web. This is a beginning to the electronic deliberation of
issues. Also in this webpage
format will be a simplistic poling record count of those for and against for
every framed decision in
which policy is being decided by the public elected officials as well as a
comment column for the bulletin
board. Ultimately this system will have voting software that will only allow
one response to be entered
per issue by a person through their personal encrypted vote pin number and all
other entries will be
disregarded or flagged for multiple attempts to violate a voting procedure.
However this will serve to
give feedback at present to the representatives as well as keep the citizenry
appraised of private interest
activity possibly corrupting the public trust.
To continue, the agencies will present any data related to their activities
that is relevant to the
above mentioned Web Pages. This data will appear as clearly stated Issues of
area Public Interest (IPI's).
They will appear as Public Safety Issues. Upper case are the categories
TRANSPORTATION; ROADWAYS, RAILWAYS, AIIt TRAVEL, SEA
There would be immediate listing for substance leaked on to the roadway and
requesting local
hazmat teams to respond, Accidents would be recorded and their severity would
be assessed showing the
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improved designs, All
pollution recordings as to the number of vehicles by the category in violation
of acceptable parameters.
For in-state, out-of state and on what interstates.
Environmental data on elements chemicals and compounds present for air, water
and any soil
sampling. Crime incident reports, featuring location, and earth coordinates,
date and time and any real-
10 time recovered data, (pfn) videos or snap shots, audio recordings along
with listing police, and request
for public assistance information.
Note: this system would have an expedient format for local law enforcement to
use any captured
data for immediate presentation to the public and it would have a security
protocol like the national
security review program that would flag data as unpresentable for police
investigation purposes and this
15 flag statement should also appear on the public web page. Police Protected
Data (PPD) Flag,
The information presented on the web and gathered from the (PFN)'s is going in
many directions
once it is received by any land line telephone node Gateway system whether
these be publicly owned or
commercial operations. The government designed protocols will be industry
standards, and operational
requirements and regulations for licencing to own and or operate a node for
the MMN. Because this
20 process takes time the crucial services for public safety will be
coordinated first. Systems that already
exist at the local level will set up their local nodes as to the government
guideline for data acquisition
that already exist today. And this will be completely detailed from local to
the national level for law
enforcement presently. A similar process can be an on going process from the
present and on into the
future.
25 The invention's (MMNWWW) will take advantage of local police systems that
are using the
web already to work and the public and are also part of the United States
Justice Department's (FBI)
National Incident Based Reporting System the (NIBRS)
One such local police force is San Antonio Police Department and their patrol
Division. They
have made strong efforts to do community policing and to involve the community
in policing itself,
30 which is great for the police and the community. They have developed six
decentralized sub stations to
work close with the community and they provide a department web page that
provides crime data and
maps and the current UCR Uniform Crime Reports for the FBI reports so that
everyone can participate
in appraising and accounting for the crime statistics. Each sub-station for
current crime incidents posts
a list of area violent crimes, burglaries, vehicle thefts, etc. in a blocked
column listing giving the district
35 number, the case number offense, the date whether a gun was used at the
time, street, and could just as
easily list map coordinates. This data while presented for public review is
generated through the
National Incident Based Reporting system deloped for and by the FBI and The
Bureau of Justice Statistic
(BJS) back in 1982, with and developed into the standard by which all crimes
are reported to the national
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crime statistics mass data computers. The (NIBRS) is generated as a by product
of state and local
incident based reporting (with this government structure software design).
However, it is designed to
suit individual municipality needs. There already exists a protocol to extract
only specific data form the
(IBR) state programs and pre pare them on magnetic tape in a specific format.
for the FBI record.
This national incident based reporting system is well establish and has a
progressive chain from
the local departments to either directly transfer data to the national mass
data base if the department can
provide the data within acceptable national parameter and or state protocols
that will insure that the
national data base receives it in the proper format. At any point along this
process the proper data can
be transferred to the appropriate web page.
This incident based reporting system will be adjusted to retrieve the most
inclusive and current
data and direct it and or divert it to the appropriate agencies to prepare
this data for everyone
examination. And at the local level where it originates off the gateways will
be immediately accessed
by police request and posted in real time for the public and police to
interact with in the quickest safest
solution to any and all public safety issues. This is the 1100-1200 Spiders
Eye and Green Eye
program Social Products created from the (MMMWWW) union. As mentioned earlier
all government
agencies have their own networks and more and more are they being networked at
many interactive
levels. The environmental data would be processed throughout the state
environmental programs and
there hazmat programs and on to agencies like the Transportation Environmental
Resource Center
(TERC) -And the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA),which is
the United States
Evironmental Protection Agency's EPA's Division that handles the nations
programs and, initiatives,
policy and guidance, regulation and s tatutes, citizens involvement,
government partners, industry an
government environmental justice, Federal facilities and activities,
international data systems and
models. They also handle training, what's new and news ,feed back, and they
have offices regionally and
of course they provide a web page which can be the beginning a hyper link from
the Web account page
and the regional operations can provide their data. The EPA also has it's own
law enforcement division
called National Enforcement Investigation Center (NEIC), located in Denver,
Colorado.
It is the office for and is responsible for Criminal Enforcement, forensics
and Training The
(OCEFT) supports the environmental enforcement community through expertise in
field activities,
engineering evaluations, forensic labortory activities, information
management, computer forensics,
technical analysis, training, and in courtroom presentation of evidence.
Clearly the government structure
is in place to set the guide lines for this real time recovery of
environmental data sent From the (PFN's)
to their Gateway communication nodes and on to the EPA's landine phone
connections regionally and
nationally as well as assimilate all the state collected data manage it in
their standard programs and mass
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store it. And with out question in this process the regional and state EPA
agencies can provide this
structured data for presentation on the State and Local Accountability Web
Pages.
These regional offices and the national office would have land line phone
connections or could
be hooked up for high speed satellite data transfer so long as any necessary
security flags were in place
or the messages were encrypted . Especially if there was data from military
vehicles was monitored for
the Pentagon or (DOD), They could transmit this data in special encrypted
codes with algorithms that
are impossible to decipher without the appropriate software. The are actually
commercial product of this
caliber.
Many government agencies are involved in mass data and so is industry and
banking. And
presently The National Air and Space Administration NASA has planned it's
seventh Goddard
Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies to address the scale of
data collections, presently
and into the future. Data storage is quickly going from terabytes to pets
bytes with the number of objects
going from millions to billions. And the integration of archival storage
systems into data bases and
digital libraries is already under way. NASA and the IEEE are addressing the
issues around integrating
these archives into information management systems. Not just government ,but
commercial computer
systems are likewise facing the same mass data storage and management
challenges . So the systems
are here and are being designed to meet these management and storage demands
and all the technologies
are merging to be able to create a MMN from normally evolved product
developments so this is the time
to instal! the invention with its (PFN) and the (MMN) with it's web page
products on the (WWW)
Anytime the (primary focal node) provides data to the machine messaging
network for any
public data recovery this is a product of the invention. Anytime any other
monitor and control system
sends data to the machine messaging net work for any public data recovery this
is a product of the
invention. Anytime the data recovered form the (PhN) is provided to the public-
- this is a product of the
invention. Anytime the (PFN) data recovered product is used by the publics
agencies and or government
-this constitutes another product of the invention. Anytime any PI?N data is
used to bill for the use of
equipment/ vehicle or machine this is a product of the invention. Anytime the
(PFN) recovered data is
used to perform or provide service to a piece of equipment this is a product
of the invention. Anytime
the (PFN) is in use to remotely control a piece of equipment --this is a
product of the invention. Anytime
the (PFN) provides data for international purposes this is a product of the
invention. Anytime the
MMNWWW is used for any purpose this is a product of the invention.
Returning to data management and data storage for a discussion of the Gate way
nodes of
medium and large data storage systems that will be doing the everyday
providing of services to the
(PF'N)s. Once again Sony has developed some very promising compact mass data
systems and a moment
will be taken to investigate how this systems and others could fill the
intermediate gap between the
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government mass storage systems and also provide service to the (PFN)s as
gateway nodes,.e.g.,
insurance companies , fossil fuel companies preparing for their futures bank
card companies auto
manufacture their dealerships, independent service providers, small local
government and their agencies
etc.
In the future there is going to be a Myriad of these commercial suppliers for
the owners of
(PFN)s which will be every one and almost every thing to chose from. And
especially when the alternate
energy systems are marketed and they can provide energy for virtually all
work, either mobile application
or stationary needs for private and public use. And without the dangers of
flammability environmental
contamination high the presence of high powered electrical transmission lines
or gas lines or gas and oil
storage tanks or dangerous nuclear energy, ect.
ENERGY CONTROL PRODUCT
As mentioned earlier this is a product design use for the invention to provide
an economic tool
for these new energy technologies and powertrain products and to maintain
balance in this process and
this means economically and environmentally. So these commercial servers will
have in their software
programs the governmentally appropriate protocols and must have them to obtain
a licence to do the
business of data acquisition at all through the (PFN) or any comparable
systems that will fall under
government stipulations. The government will either provide the soft ware
packets at an affordable price
or for free. This is to help generate an economic expansion. The soft ware
will have tracking architecture
displayed in the header to show it's electronic pathway to make it accountable
monetarily and for
credibility.
The more sophisticated the (PFN) Gateway node companies are, the more services
they will
provide, and the more off board data storage they can offer their customers as
well as save the public
systems money. For these reasons these servers should be given tax breaks for
updating and increasing
their management and storage capacity. Many pager Cellphone Charge Card
dependant business are
natural growth companies for the new industry to provide services through the
PFN and the
There will also have to be a licencing structure and an ID address provided to
these (PFN)
serviced providers, companies similar to the process done for the World Wide
Web, and in most all cases
these companies will also have to be address for the WWW as a gateway provider
as well.
Sony has mass data storage type robotics systems called Peta sites, These
systems are good
because they can be added to with space saving technology that can be suited
to an individual gateways
needs. It is comprised of four components. The Basic Console loads and unloads
the tapes it has a data
capacity of.6 TB/l5csssets power consumption is 3,OOOVA, it's dimensions are
35 1/8 80.3/8 53 1/3 "
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and it weigh 859 lb. The Drive Console writes, reads, and stores tape capacity
4.8 TB/115. Casset's has
half the power consumption of the basic console about the same weight and
twice as big.
The Casset Console is about the same size as the drive console has a data
capacity of 7.Stera
bytes/180 cassets DIR drives and weighs about 600 lb Junction Consoles for the
automated or robotic
tape loading and unloading has .6TB 15 cassets same size as the basic console
and weighs 925 lbs. And
the system is scaleable, it has innovative robotics, and it uses infrared
communications, controls a unique
mailbox system, and the tape scanning system is a barcode type, and the system
ca self diagnose and
trouble shoot itself.
This is a powerful little mass storage system and Sony has put together a pets
site for CNN to
video Archive 18 years of video segments some 700,000 video segments, To do
this project Sony teamed
up with EDS to create this media vault.
One point to make presently is that the National Transportation system Highway
Safety
Administration and all the State DOT agencies would also be linked together
and provide Local ,State
,and Federal Web Account Page issues in the same manner , In fact any and all
Agencies listed in the 27
pages of figure 2a will be capable of providing issues to the Web Account
Pages.
Now to return to the invention programs that will be put into use through
these computer systems
on and off board the (PFN) host equipment and the structural concerns of the
agencies that will help
structure and regulate policy. Presently the FBI has stepped up it's training
and is training many of the
world's police in their investigative procedures. Which also makes the
invention timely to gain world
wide use and standards. And this could be an ideal time to coordinate and
organize a world wide crime
incident and reporting system.
SYSTEM FUNCTIONS
The 1100-1200 series spider eyes program for law enforcement and government
use police -
spider eyes -report back public web crime or incident- report - record- pub
web.
The police will have a wide array of innovative devices to chose and aid them
in their job. And
all created from the invention's ability to interface all types of
communications, data storage and
interface with remote control devices on the vehicle.
These innovative police tools are part of the inventions 1100 series
innovations and the" Spider
eyes" program referred to in the 3rd provisional patent applications with the
use of video recording crime
or traffic accidents and or event recording, which was also described and
discussed in the first patent
preceding this one. The officers first device would be a scanning device at
could retrieve and store data
and compare it with stored data or data retrieved for a comparison purpose.
This single device or function
of another of the inventions innovative devices the combo gun would be able to
retrieve from any vehicle
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on vehicle ownership road
worthiness, and any illegal operations (excluding personal storage files) in
the secured storage areas. This
can be accomplished by connecting to the hard wiring to the cars external
communication port array or
a (USB) or even obtain this data wirelessly as explained below.
The officer could first view and then capture this information and run it
through a software
10 compare list that is either a pre-loaded local and national (VCR's) and
(NIBRS) pertinent data files from
his Role call briefing at the beginning of his shift. Or it could be data
obtain in real time through contact
via an isolated and protected short n~nge Rf signal from his cruiser where it
is received and retransmitted
(Repeated) by long range two way radio or Cellphone or a 2 way pager
transmission equipment through
any number of interfaces and equipment as covered in this application for the
invention. Ideally the
15 interfaces would be housed in the secure box system. The hand held unit
will have a couple different
configurations including hard wire connections and wireless technologies, but
all will have in them ( a
micro processor, EEPROM buffer and or Sony mini digital" memory sticks" or a
comparable
technology. If hard wired connections are used the officer will place the hand
held unit on his peripheral
communication link (USB) or some universal set of connectors array and down
load it to s/his larger data
20 storage unit in the cruiser (8 gbte or better). These USB's and outside and
inside the cabin connection
arrays will also help when servicing any and all vehicles and will help to
certify the repairs on the unit
for the customers later reference through their own computers on board.
Another communication port
technology is infrared. And the infrared technology will make this interface
for on the spot data
acquisition extremely easy for the user as well as any wireless communication
technologies if so desired
25 or as a necessary back up. All of these C.O.T.S. products, systems and
technologies that the invention
interfaces with will be discussed at length in this application.
However many Police Departments use wireless shirt microphones that allow
their more
powerful vehicle transmitter to (Repeat) their voice signal to their dispatch
or department office or
headquarters.
RETRANSMISSION OR REPEATER INTERFACE
These same systems will be enhanced and innovated to send and receive
compressed digital data
with the proper communication codes to direct the type of response use (voice
or data) Emergency
services will be on 2 separate frequencies. This should be used for the
police, security and emergency
response application to allow for simultaneous communication of voice and
data. (even for physical vital
signs for EMTs). This is presently accomplished with cell technologies in some
fire and ambulance
departments, however the repeater interface is another option and probably
safer for those patients with
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electronic pacemakers and automated medication dosing devices ,ect. And it is
less of an interference
and influence on other sensitive electronic medical equipment.
Of course, police and emergency response personnel will be on special
dedicated FCC (USA)
frequencies for all short and long range transmissions. This way an officer
can be in direct contact with
his department office with his audio signal and simultaneously be directly
connected to the departments
FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Data base through the land line phone node of
the departments
computer that acts like a Gateway to the FBI computer net work of crime data
basis which includes the
FBI's National Incident- Based Reporting system (NIBRS) which will provide
direct answers in real time
for officers' queries. And provide a modality to record on the spot reports as
things happening.
This will be accomplished technically with software in the cruisers computer
secure box and or
interface that is designed to meet the FBI standards and requirements for
(NIBRS) report filing. The
officer will be able to give a vocal report in real time through voice
recognition technologies. His/her
incident report will be recorded evaluated and held in the cruiser's buffer
and or hard drive and also
directly burned on to a permanent data storage device. This is done to keep as
pristine as possible first
record.
The officer's report is simultaneously sent to the departments gateway
coraputer and it's mass
data management and storage (a pets storage for magnetic tape or cartridges
which meets the FBI's
(I~IIBRS) requirements (in most sizable departments (100 officers or more)
probably already exists. And
for smaller departments data storage will be sanctioned by state data bases to
meet federal standards and
passed on in the proper protocol or returned for editing to the originating
department and officer.
At any gateway computer or one with the proper software compare lists any
report can be
evaluated to determine if it meets with the Justice Department standard or the
FBI requirements for
(UCR and NIBRS). If so it is passed on to the state data base for evaluation
(for non member
department's or ones who do not have the size or the equipment) and then on
for record keeping if desired
and on to the national FBI crime data base computers in-Berkley-WVA. This is
the first leg of the
control system for the accounting of public crime. The second leg is the
simultaneous accurate real-time
reporting to the public, the political representatives, any and all necessary
government agencies and any
and all commercial interests.
And this is accomplished by using this invention's control system embodiment
the Machine
Messaging Network (MMN). Ultimately every nation in the world will have a
(MMN) system that will
openly share as much data as it receives through its agencies mass data
management system as described
hear for law enforcement. This would involve environmental data, land water
air and resources. Aany
rate what ever data is to be shared openly will appear on the World Wide Web
(WWW)as a local web
page, a state web page, national web page, and also a world wide web report
page as earlier described.
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S All in the world will be able to view and respond to it with E-mail. And the
great access for all to be on
line can be achieved through the lowing cost to gain web access through TV
Cable and other low cost
mediums.
One goal of the control system is to empower all the people with real data and
communication
with each other so they are not victimized by the media's representation of
what is pseudo-determined
facts by pseudo qualified editorial and/or professional opinions of the real
facts and data for any private
interest. At the very least this should help develop some responsibility for
their extremely financially
rewarding use of our public air ways and our laws governing free speech and
our extremely generous use
of government property in land and our technology as we the informed pubic
have afford them in the
past. All of us need to be able to give our input to the issues that affect
life here on the hydrosphere. And
the web page will be detailed on how it will easily provide the facts in a
simple precise manner and allow
the public to seek out the opinions necessary for them to form an opinion and
respond by E-mail directly
to their representatives at the very least.
1100-1200 SERIES GREEN EYE PROGRAM; 1100-1200 SERIES SPIDER EYES
Initially in the (PItN) runs self evaluation program from established test
standards to determine
if their is a worthy warning flag to alert the driver , record the pertinent
data, and determine if further
action is necessary. If so the report function to the (MNWWV~ is notified for
a response and the printer
is activated and the operator has to acknowledge the receipt of the message.
The present invention will
rely on government tests for each vehicle type for their types and levels of
toxic emissions to appraise
their environmental impact, which will through the invention directly
correlate to their compliance to
the standards as the cost of a specific vehicle's operation until it is shut
down and/or red tagged as
unacceptable. For vehicles now in service, these parameters as environmental
standards exist today.
However, the invention is bringing these environmental standards of specific
offenders to real-time
compliance. It will also reduce the need for the state to maintain facilities
to try to police these
environmental violations.
This will allow the state to become a more cooperative human partner in
humanity's life
situations and less involved in policing humanities technology for revenue.
There will also be sensors
on toxic fluid chemicals levels in every vehicle and loss here can be dealt in
the same manner. However,
warnings will be issued and driver's must acknowledge receipt and timely
repairs and service/authorities
must sign off which would negate andlor reduce any monetary penalty. This is
to catch the habitual
offender who continually operates a vehicle not road worthy or is
environmentally harmful.
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One purpose of the present invention is to free up police officers from losing
valuable crime
stopping time to revenue the public for traffic control and environmental
safety, more time for people
to police people - and let the machines police themselves.
AUTO TUTOR
The objective of the invention is a good and peaceful merger for all. The
present invention is
similar to an auto tutor: The belief here is, the accurate information that
will be more readily available
to all and coupled with the skills to condense this data individually and
publicly, man will make the
correct decisions and put aside his petty differences and selfish interest.
Not at first but with awareness
humanity will do this as a whole. This should be how this invention is used
and its purpose.
It is through these avenues of purpose, service, and use that the invention
will generate business
and the ways the above mentioned servers and providers will commercialize it
as fully described and
claimed clearly here and now. And it is very important to understand this huge
and diverse unique claim
of accounting and analyzing as it pertains to the invention's entire
monitoring network system. The
present invention, with its monitoring and control capabilities, is a secure
interactive Internet of
communication for man and machine that will evolve as a world wide web with
secure communications
and control for all humanity's equipment.
COMMERCIALIZING, SERVICES AND USE OF THE INVENTION
First the invention will actively seek out and query the Government and all
it's agencies to gather
information as to what equipment and systems it uses and how it gathers
processes and stores it's mass
data. And then seek out and join with any involved commercial and government
efforts underway that
are standardizing programs to join together data bases. Once again the timing
is perfect. At present the
computer industry is trying to readjust for the Y-2K problem. So the
inventions deployment can be
expedited though this process and the fact that all government agencies are
networking their data bases.
With coordinated efforts presently this set up for the (NnVINWWW) can be
accomplished in an efficient
manner with joint cooperation. The inventions (MMNWWW) program will strive to
coordinate it's
direction and goals with these efforts, commercially and governmentally. The
invention will also seek
out government departments and agencies to utilize their technology transfers
and technology grants in
an effort to coordinate as much as possible this effort to develop the
(MMNWWW) and be willing to
combine it's technology with other manufactures and government agencies in as
productive a manner as
possible to develop this necessary network. The invention will lobby and
participate as well with the
governments public officials and work on the legislation for the practical
uses of remote control
technologies and robotics systems for the nations highways (D.O.T.)
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Accompanying this application is a directory taken off the world wide web of
every federal
agencies web page that can be reached through clicking on that page and it is
the intention of the
invention to provide a hyper link to everyone of these agencies through the
web account pages and
specifically on issues they are involved with in a specific geographic
location . And provide away for
the agencies to CC this pertinent Data or down load it to the Invention's
Citizens web pages.
With this data readily available on the web, the public can judge what the
utilities should cost
them and give their input to any rates. They can also view current billing and
even pay it over the Internet
personally or through personally owned automated software that appraises their
billing and their financial
status with over draw protections.
This is a list of pertinent Government agencies that would have special needs
satisfied by the
inventions (PFN):
Military-to control civilian vehicle and material movements in nation building
operations that
require a necessary occupancy force to mediate between two or more conflicting
groups;
Environmental protection agencies, as has already been described throughout
the invention;
Department of Transportation agencies to assess infrastructure needs and use,
along with
interactive highway interfaces and Smart Cars;
Energy Monitoring Agencies;
Revenue Agencies that assess their taxing as to the operational uses of
equipment or time of use
or geographic travel;
The Interstate Commerce Commission;
Any and all law enforcement agencies, e.g., for vehicle control, personal
monitoring, lost person
locating systems, evidence procurement, public safety, fine assessment for
violations and automated
insurance;
The Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force and Army as a locating device and
for remote
control and service;
Also the Park Service and Forest Service and U.S. Agriculture Department;
The Judicial System and related agencies to be used as evidence in courtrooms;
and
N.O.A.A. eeather condition.
PROGRAMS THE INVENTION IS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE FOR SOCIETY (PFN)
Note: The billing box (PFN) innovation is to provide a real service by
creating legitimate
commercial business that offer accountable services to protect the individual,
society and the
environment as it evaluates fairly our impact and actions with our machines
and on each other. Note also
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equipment and resources which will
correlate to, and must be augmented by pre-defined cost factors for use, so
that fair pay scales for any
activities can be equally applied for commercially, as well as private
individuals based on the volume
or activity and the machinery's operational economic coefficient impact fee
which will be determined
by the earlier described process, or any agreed upon legally prescribed manner
for business operation,
10 e.g., contracts.
In addition, every piece of equipment will be evaluated for its impact then
monitored and
controlled: e.g., cars, farm equipment, construction equipment, even home
devices and stationary
equipment, private and commercial.
This is a partial list of industry categories and government agencies that
this invention claims
15 as its providers/servers and users which fall within the nature and scope
of the invention, when it is used
for, and/or in conjunction, with these herein stated devices for these
purposes, and should be considered
proprietary and protected markets and customers for the invention.
The industries are: Car Rental & leasing Companies, Rental Equipment
Companies, Loan &
Finance Companies, Car & Equipment Manufactures, Repair Service Companies,
Insurance Companies,
20 Telecommunication Companies, i.e. pagers, cellphones Rf transceivers,
Standard Land Line Phone
Companies Inter Net Providers, Cable Services Providers, Public Transportation
companies(i.e.,
railroads, subways, buses, cabs, and limos, fuel and utility companies, credit
and bank card companies,
any manufacturing that uses equipment and energy to run it). Privately owned
and operated highway
systems (toll and interactive. Boating Companies, Farming and Agriculture
related companies, computer
25 companies, computer software systems, e.g., Microsoft, and the like.
MONITOR AND CONTROL SYSTEM (NI1VIN)
Most of the discussion for the monitor and control system was focused on the
macro system
(MMNWWW). And this is the third embodiment ftom the first patent application
fully explained on
30 how the entire automated machine control system operates World Wide. The
smaller systems were
detailed in the first formal applications and many closely related or similar
technologies to the invention
have developed programs commercially already that can be incorporated and
should be to complete the
total accountability system. Some of these companies are: GM's Onstar program,
EDS 911 Software and
the SIR automatic dialing for an accident etc.
35 The (MMNWWW) (gateway provider, commercial server) will be governed by law
to how it
must handle certain data received. And it will be able to access immediately
any government agencies
data phone in put node directly to down load information to that data systems
buffer and management
system (there will be a 911 priority protocol for certain data calls).
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SMALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESS GROWTH AND PUBLIC SAVIrIGS
Once again by this constant automated vehicle monitoring the environment can
be protected as
well, and the municipalities can obtain revenue with respect to government
standards assigned to specific
vehicles impact on the environment at any specific time of its operation,
while simultaneously notifying
the operator of their cost and warning them of the need for attention to this
problem. It is my belief that
this will save consumer time and money, while preserving a revenue base that
will better insure timely
repairs without wasting an operator's time in some government or personally
owned inspection/repair
operation where apathy and conflict of interest often take place.
However, these small service operations could subscribe to be an approved and
accredited
business through guidelines set up with municipalities and monitoring
companies (servers) and sold
piecemeal work or do the work out of an entire service contract that has
been.sold to the operator
consumer as a package deal. It is not the intention of this invention to
isolate the small service operation
or do-it-your-selfers. In fact, the opposite is the intent: it is to help the
small service operation have the
most up-to-date diagnostics available to avoid the expensive repairs of today
when the wrong parts are
misordered for the lack of knowledge and understanding in diagnosing the
systems, devices and
electronic sensors of today's vehicles.
To have more secure control over our machines while qualifying the effect on
our environment
and their effect on our economy as a group and/or individually, e.g., fair
market economy with respect
to service and repair. We need to keep our service options open while
networking technical data to
improve the quality and cost effectiveness of repair. This inventor envisions,
for example, more
independent operations, franchises networked with OEMs, and the like, as one
of the primary providers
to these servers and the customer.
Through expanding the availability of repair knowledge the invention can keep
generating
individual creativity by helping to insure some individual prosperity through
expanding markets through
improving smaller independent businesses capability to not only compete, but
to be cost effective as well
which will provide resources to be creative and strengthen the economy. Big
business will always be
consolidating these good and effective developments in business practices, and
market share and small
commercial entities will increase with new markets for public value, thus
raising stock values that will
draw investors. So we will create more money to buy more real products and
services which will employ
real people. This invention gives our world economy real data to balance this
process, i.e., population
and resources intelligently and fairly.
Because of the wide range of remote control and the varied products and
program products
available and on the market presently the invention will be presented in a
pseudo-prototype evolution
in Figure 5 with the electron devices in patent III to illustrate all the
different progressive level of remote
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and automated controls with three main considerations in mind. The CPU
capacity of the (PFN), the
peripherals in and on board and the communication deviceds and gateway
capacity and services provided
and or purchased. Many of these components and services can be moved around in
the prototypes if they
can be supported with these three things in mind, And these drawings should
not be considered as the
only combinations that the invention claims as product configurations. They
are provided for better
understanding of the technology and as a suggested evolution with public
safety in mind for the
development of these remote controls to full robotic systems, e.g., Smarts and
the Interactive Highway
Systems. A flowchart in this application in Figure 7 shows the basic
development of the prototypes from
communications to peripherals.
Figure 1
This figure is a descriptive flow chart that illustrates many of the possible
variations that could
be employed to completely create an interactive network of servers and
providers as has been ascribed
to/from the stop box described in detail in the patent applications
incorporated herein by reference. This
system has always been described as one that could be individually owned and
operated, commercially
owned and operated, and/or publicly owned and/or operated. This system
embodiment has always
described flexibility as to size and function with the defining factors always
being the devices, systems
and people wishes as to the properties and qualities that comprise any
particular market product or
system.
So in keeping with that nature and spirit of these applications and the latest
device and software
innovations, Figure 1 is a flow chart that plots and prioritizes the command
and operational functions
of all the hardware and software.
Throughout this application, most of the description has focussed on the
hardware and firmware
of the actual products or components as well as what hardware and firmware
they will utilize to complete
their interfacing and interacting tasks. And most of their functions, which
will be performed by software
commands have been verbally described rather than in the form of specific
commands.
There are three reasons for this. First much of the software exists in many of
the individual off
board system networks and the world wide web. Second they are also constantly
under change and near
impossible to completely list even in all these applications. Another reason
for not listing specific
command strings at this time is because of the many different pieces of
equipment possibilities in the
PFNs interfaces. In this case many of the manufactures of the C.O.T.S. parts
and products have already
designed the hardware, firmware and software commands to complete the
interfacing for any functions
desired and these are adequately described. But most importantly the exact way
these functions will be
commanded in software must conform to all the regulations and laws of the land
and these issues are still
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in a process of development and will always be augmented to provide the best
legal software for the right
equipment and personnel at the right time, e.g., specific court instructions
for a provisional driver ect.
The (PFN) is the focal no deal to perform the three basic secure and protected
containment functions of;
The Stop Box, e.g., to restrict unauthorized use of equipment, the Black Box
to record and preserve data
in an acceptable legal manner, and the billing box which provides a total
accountability system for
humanity economically and its physical existence on this planet.
All the technology necessary to complete these tasks have been described and
detailed so that
anyone in the arts could easily build and program a PFN to do any desired
preprogramed functions of
automated robotics and or remote control. And in many of the cases with
C.O.T.S. completed products
a lay person could be just as successful at these endeavors. Also, in the
third application the specific
electrical functions of the devices on the host vehicle are completely
described and detailed with many
of the software command structures. The first application also gives a version
of one of the "basic"
software programs used to remotely slow a car down, warn the driver and others
of the action taken, stop
the car and secure it in a stationary position with the dome light lit and an
all the Hazard flashers
blinking. The software program (already prototyped) also applies the brakes
automatically if the driver
or occupants try to leave the car prior to the complete shut down of the
vehicle. While this software
package is relatively simple it completes the stop box and some of the black
box recording functions to
more than demonstrates the practical reality of the invention and the feasible
completion of any of it's
prototypes and or technology. So figure one provides a map of directions as to
how the software
commands initiated in the (PFN) will be structured with respect to the devices
and sensors on the host
vehicle and how they will be effecting the PFN and the PFN affecting the
devices, which are all
interfaced with and in relationship to the control systems off board. This
application describes how the
invention can do all of these functions and it suggests ways for society to
use the invention . But in no
way does it attempt to prescribe to a democratic society how to govern or
implement the inventions use.
This is for each society to decide how to use the invention for learning
,analytical and appraisal purposes
and or the imposing of any controls physically or legally.
Figure 2
Figure 2 is an illustration showing the world and all the possible networking
of systems that will
make up this complete interactive data handling communication and control
system , or create the
monitoring network of the present invention the (M1VWTWWW). Figure 2 shows
satellites that surround
the world and triangles denote commercial or private servers and government
providers; the
servers\providers are gateway nodes in most cases to land based phone service
for computer net works
for the government agencies commercial service companies, and/or the WWW. {ps)
means phone system
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hard wired; (Ig) in a circle is local government; [E] in a square is the
emergency response; the little man
is a lost child or convict; and also depicted is a tractor, boat, plane, bull
dozer, factory and a car.
The radio towers are, for example, cell phone, digital and/or pager towers,
and/or RF systems
and the capital of the US represents the national government and the stars are
other national government
around the world. The triangles are servers in other countries.
This figure is meant to present the simple view to establish the concept of a
world wide
monitoring system to link all forms of communication networks through the
inventions PFN's to create
the Machine Messaging Network the (MMN) which when it's data is presented on
the WWW as
informative accountable web pages completes this task. Society once again will
have the means and
knowledge to use this monitoring and record keeping system to control
functions either indirectly or
directly with remote control in real time. But this will and probably should
be done with caution and
consciousness.
The reason that this world monitoring and control system is feasible and not
just some inventors
dream is because it is based on smaller networks which are presently emerging
and already perform
meaningful public desired services by combining telecommunications and
vehicles together. These are
not at present true remote control, automated control or any real robotic set
of systems for machinery.
But most definitely the invention is what the fuhwe will need to make these
emerging systems better for
all society . It can provide for fair revenueing and assessing at the same
time through accounting for
material use and waste products with the operation of all humanities equipment
and technology. And
without any doubt the timing is correct to create this type of accountability
to better help humanity to
manage it's technology economically and environmentally.
Figure 2A
Figure 2A is a list of U.S. Government Agencies. And in fact it is actually a
U.S. Federal
Government Agency Directory prepared by LSU in a search engine format web page
with hypertext and
or mosaic or gopher software architecture so that the browser can click on any
under lined department
or agency and go directly to that specific departments home web page.
So obviously the agencies already exist and they are set up to enter data on
to the net through
their own web pages. Many of these agencies already prepare data by regions if
not states and local
jurisdictions or geographical boundaries. Some even provide this data
presently to universities
,corporations and or governments. for their research and knowledge as well as
the general public. Most
importantly the areas dealt with in this application as to watchdogging the
environment is well saturated
with governing agencies. Those dealing with the environmental, law enforcement
and transportation as
well as all taxing agencies and revenue mechanisms and government spending or
disbursement of public
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already. This makes the goal
of setting up Web Account pages for local state and national very easy by
maintaining a structure that
will interface with the govennment agencies and financial markets supply it's
information to this format.
The purpose is to develop a public product for rapid awareness of one's
physical and economical
environment from the local to the national level to greater insure the wise
use of technology investment
10 and create a more politically interactive public that can voice its views
economically and by public
comment through electronic polling in the most efficient and clear way.
Some of the national environmental agencies that would supply data to the web
account pages
are on page 3 of figure 2A NESDIS,EIS,NCDC,NODC and the coordinating agency
Office of satellite
Data processing and distribution. Some more are NMFS,NOS,NWS. As well as the
office of Global
15 programs, The office of Oceanic and Meteorological Laboratory, Air resource
lab, Climate Diagnostic
Center, Forecast System Lab, geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Many of these would
be coordinated By
EPA and the data would be presented in clear accurate packets framed to
current issues if appropriate,
as well as, given as raw data hyper links that the individual can click back
on and find the agency and
person responsible for posting a specific data framed for a issue.
20 Along with posting data to the web page many of these agencies would be
gathering data from
all the PFN's through either their area local phone nodes or networked
commercial servers that
transferred data to their local nodes .The agencies would then share it and
store it and post it on the web
account pages. They would be retrieving this data was mentioned earlier from
their regional phone nodes
and or commercial servers that would be passing this data on to them
automatically through special
25 software structured by these agencies. It would therefore be a requirement
of any commercial server or
any provider that acted as a gateway to any government data management for a
agency that they be
running the agency approved software to be licensed operator Commercial
servers e.g. cell phone
service, ect.
On page 18 of the Directory listed half way down the page the Federal
Department Of
30 Transportation has all it's divisions listed and of course these too would
be responsible for the gathering
of Data in their traditional way as well as through the inventions {PFN) data
transmissions, especially
in the interactive highway systems.
However, all agencies record their activities geographically but some don't
report their issues
and/or activities to the local level and the public is forced to track down
this information. Ideally with
35 the local state and national public account web pages on the web, these
regional agencies can post local
data and issues they have collected and are working on as they prepare their
data for reports to the
regional or state as well as, national level. Of course there may be a need to
pass some of this information
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through a security protocol program first and then post the data in a clear
straight forward manner for
the public with FAQ's.
Other areas to retrieve data from the PFN and post data to the Web account
pages will be The
Department of energy, and all their projects and programs starting on page 9
of this register, ultimately
all agencies in their mass data management and storage programs would
structure there software to
support their representation on the web account pages so they can account to
the public for their
existence and their activities. And of course the Justice Department starting
on page 15 along with all
the earlier mentioned FBI programs would be an important part of the spider
eyes program in reporting
criminal incidences that are under investigation so that the general public
can also help locally and
nationally in the process to jointly police our society any policing process.
These would be posted locally as described for the San Antonio Police
Department, etc. as well
as supplied direct FBi regional and national Data for all 4 levels of the web
account page) And of course
this is a main objective in providing these web account pages to the 'general
public. If the individual is
going to be ask to share some of their rights of personal privacy
for a better, safer and more informed society than it is only fair play to
insure they have as much
freedom and security as legally possible to all gathered information and for
all gathered information.
Figure 2B
Figure 2B is the entire inventions control system from the Primary Focal Node
on every piece
of equipment to all accounting processes of public government in every agency
desired to an accountable
presentation of this Data to the public in general via local state and
national Accountability Web pages.
It is the PFN.MMN.WWW A social economic and environmental technology
accounting system for
Democratic Government with a responsible free enterprise system.
At the very top of the page is a group of ten icons symbolizing where the
PFN's would be
utilized. These few representative icons are by no means to be interpreted as
the only places that PFN's
will be utilized. They are intended to be used in some form on all pieces of
equipment and or placed any
where it is determined their needs to be monitoring for public safety after
meeting any necessary legal
requirements for their installation.
PFN's can have more than one purpose e.g. they can be used to bill for service
or a particular
service of a machine and simultaneously be gathering data on an incident or
accident even controlled by
off board control systems. In fact, as machine messaging continues to encroach
into the vehicle and
equipment world the more necessary and easy this inventions Primary Focal Node
will be to achieve to
govern and organize all these systems. The icons from the top left are trees
with a (PFI~ box to monitor
the environment, weather, air pollution, etc., either sensors or video camera
or any number or types of
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sensing devices. This box is given a squiggly line to indicate a wireless
transmission. Once again these
monitoring devices are in existence presently, so the invention will add
communication to them if they
do not have it and return their data in real time to the agencies that are to
govern them and any private
or commercial operators of this equipment could be given a tax rebate. The
agency will then pass the data
on to data management for posting ,CCing and any proper storage determined by
any governing
software. The PFN's software will be configured to retrieve the data in an
easy to handle format to
simplify this process. Part of the accounting system is to be able to support
this mass data acquisition
system with out breaking anyone group, e.g.. the individual, the governments,
and or any commercial
enterprises. So to be fair and because every action is electronically
traceable in the message headers if
anyone's vehicle or equipment is used to capture video for the publics
business they are credited for the
services and if a news or commercial enterprise wishes to use or tap into
their systems to show, e.g., a
tragic tie-up then they must pay the owner of the vehicle or not use the data
gathered unless the owner
complies with a request. The owner would be notified if their system was being
asked to use its data link
for sensors for any commercial request or the owner could call in and offer
location viewing to the news
agencies. This is done to accurately pay for the advancement of this
extraordinarily large monitoring
system.
The next icon up on the left is a generating plant and it shows a direct black
line going to the
commercial servers semi circle. This is a land line phone link and also a
squiggly line to indicate a
wireless transmission if needed as a back up or more cost effective modality,
etc. The invention could
list here all the standards for air quality for S02 point source standards,
particle point source standards,
NOx point source standards, all the green house gas COZ, etc. However, there
are government agencies
and private watchdog groups already involved in monitoring this and they have
established standards
which can be used a s a starting point. The invention will house all the
appropriate sensor arrays to detect
these toxin or just the "Nose a NASA development along with a communication
link to these agencies
to insure real-time compliance and report any amount of violation. Much of
this data already exist and
can be easily prepared for the web account pages.
The next piece of equipment is a bull dozer and most of the time there is a
limited amount of
construction equipment but because they are forced to work in dusty
environments and therefore are
incredibly susceptible to clogged air systems which causes an increase in rich
unused fuel being partially
burned that deliver a great deal of pollutants into the air. Farm equipment as
well, is inherently a dusty
environment and also these pieces of equipment are in many cases working with
food products and
should be monitored for toxic fluid loss as well as any storage tank
facilities for fuel pesticides and or
concentrated fertilizers. Both construction and agriculture will be serviced
in the most part by wireless
-pagers with small short range fm transceivers and processors as described
earlier. The Rf transceiver
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is for networking all monitored farm equipment to one land line, transceiver
where ever possible and the
pagers will be used for inexpensive longer transmissions, also this will
provide for the repeater function
of a short range signal to a long range transmission or telephone
communication line, e.g., people locator
(Child find). With every land based line so outfitted with a transceiver an
emergency network could be
developed making every land line part of the repeater net system coupled to
all vehicle PFN's. The short
range transmitter would have the same one tuning crystal the same as the tot
spot system mentioned
earlier this would be a specially dedicated frequency by the F.C.C.
Also other crucial Agricultural Data gathered can be sent immediately to the
government
agencies to monitor and advise the farming area. some GPS systems are employed
by Archer Daniel
Midland (ADM) for the governing of irrigation and crop monitoring from
satellite systems. Along with
the equipment and ground monitoring thee systems could be interfaced to return
accurate crop data back
to the government and to send aid and services to help a farmer or farming
district in trouble due to
weather or blight ect. When this was done the farmer could be given a tax
break with respect to crop
investment and loss. Also if the data gathered in a specific area was used for
public use or commercial
use the farmer could be reimbursed for the access to their electronic gathered
data.
The next icon is a factory and depending on how many pieces of equipment and
the proximity
they are to land lines these pieces of equipment may also only have a short
range radio transceiver that
is in communication with a secondary node with in the company (land based line
)and reports directly
to a company control system in which these machines are monitored and recorded
for their operations,
but can also be provided instructions from plant management directly to their
operators or are operated
robotically without operators. This in house network system could provide a
data link for service
contractors and show a history of operational readings which when run through
their software diagnostic
programs and or those programs owned by the factory would limit the repair
choices and suggest the
materials needed to effect an appropriate repair . This would be a great time
saver and money saver.
Also personal calls could be routed to the operator without them having to
leave their machine to answer
them.
In the material handling industry many robotic order picking systems already
exist and
converting them to collect emissions data toxic fluid loss as well as gather
performance data would be
relatively easy. As well as, store the data either on board each PFN or
(existing converted remote control
systems) which would be able to store data either on board the machine or in
the secondary company
node or the commercial service company or any government monitoring agency or
any or all of the
above.
12 O'clock on the drawing there are icons for a boat and a car. The boat would
have sensors on
all toxic fluids and in the bilge to determine if the fluid had been passed
back into the environment.
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Having the PFN on board would be a great way to increase safety and to know
navigation location at all
times . In areas where cell phones and beepers were unable to communicate
either a satellite or global
digital phones might serve as a replacement. And also marine band radios would
be used. And in this
case the radio receiver station for the coast guard would receive a data link
transmission along with any
voice with the boats ESN or registry and a full report as to it's mechanical
condition along with any SOS
broadcast automatically sent or initiated by the boat occupants.
The car icon is very well described in this whole application and is used to
describe most all the
PFN's properties and qualities in all the other industries.
This is also true for the trucking industry the next icon at 1 O'clock.
However, just a moment
will be taken to point out that the intense concern for air pollution due to
the trucking industry
Commonly referred to as the colors of smoke blue, black and white. These
smokes could be monitored
in real time as well as the charging and paying of all fuel taxes and highway
tolls. This could be paid
electronically without creating toll plazas and the traffic tie-ups that
accompany them. merely have a
standard signal sent out by the highway computer that requested every vehicle
via short range transceiver
to broadcast its ID ESNVIN back or to call it in on a cellular highway node
system. The ESNVIN would
also have a special tariff smart card number already swiped into the cars PFN
which was bought earlier.
this national card only pays for tolls and gas or use tax or commercial cards
can be used when they are
accompanied be encrypted transmission and reception for security. And, of
course, for the interactive
highways or any smart cars to be a reality for society they will need to
process all their remote control
instructions through a secure PFN that can record and account for all the
robotic actions for any legal
decision involving a driver accountability and an automated systems liability.
The railway trains and subways, etc. already have many monitoring systems or
networks. These
systems would be tied into the all inclusive network system to account for
energy use and environmental
impact. And they might carry these PFN systems in addition to the ones they
use now as a back up or all
these systems will be universalized but only be specific as to the jobs they
per form. At 2.30 on the
drawing there is a picture of an airplane with a radio signal from the plane
and a land line signal to the
tower. Here pertinent data from the plane could be logged into the MMN from
the traditional FAA black
box set up to down load on landings and during service or this data could be
downloaded as is discussed
in servicing equipment in the third application for the automobile. The tower
and or airport facility is
normally well endowed with environmental and weather sensing equipment and all
this data would be
also segmented by agency protocols and CC for the proper mass storage and also
presented in the public
account web pages. Also at 8 o'clock on the M1VII~1WWW local node gate way
protocol is a icon for the
interactive high way and in most cases this will act as a primary local node
to down load any PFN data
that is standing ready for data transfer in the PFN Buffer an has been CC to
it's PFN's unit storage.
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which are layered
protocols established by government standards for the data acquisition into
their systems for processing.
Their could easily be added more layers and most definitely will, but these
eight will suffice to
demonstrate how the system will process the data.
The first ring is the commercial communication server and MMN gateway via Land
line systems
10 . More and more in the future standard phone systems are going to have
faster switching and for any one
to operate a commercial node they must have, all their phone support lines be
Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Lines (ADSL). The second ring in and the first ring provides any
emergency service if the
PFN did not call or was not able to reach an emergency service phone node for
some reason . In this case
the commercial server will maintain any and all contact e.g. voice and data
links till the customer is
1 S served or connected to the emergency personnel, otherwise the second ring
can provide any number of
services from making web connections to down loading entertainment packages
for the board driver. The
next three smaller circles are for energy accounting and environment,
transportation and traffic, and the
criminal incident reporting system.
It is important to remember in all these systems used in the MMN for the most
part they are two
20 way capable in communication and definitely all those used in the spider
eyes program are two way. This
means in the protocol for reporting crime all reports will be time and
geographic stamped and will be
reported in real time if certain software is triggered in a PFN or local law
enforcement will be able to
remotely activate any number of vehicles or PFN's they have recent reports
from or any that are in use
and giving out a signal to a local cell so that law enforcement can activate
cameras and appraise an area
25 in which they have just received an incident reported. Of course all these
protocols have to be approved
by the public and decide on how the billing will be assigned and credited.
The voting node allows for the public with their special pin Id to vote on the
road or in the home.
Originally first to respond to issues as they drive home to let their
representatives know how they feel
on the issues that are at hand . They can view them in their cars on LCD
screens or see by hologam wind
30 shields, and hear data delivered by voice. (Not Radio) This system would be
developed to sanction a
vote with a positive finger print ID and or an accompanying pin code. Also a
driver could send a voice
mail that coverts to a written message to address an issue on, e.g., area
roads and specific conditions.
The two inner circles will be a continual running account of commercial and
public cost and
gains so an area can judge how well it is doing and also to determine where
best to invent or create its
35 finances and use its resources. This data would primarily be gathered over
land lines and this accounting
system could be used to make cases commercially to communities to lower taxes
or provide support aid
in a lean time or help to retrain workers in an eventual lay off. This is not
the way business is done to day
but it should and could provide a better way of life without stress for all in
the future. Business would
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learn it's local community can help guarantee its survival even if it has to
change the way it is doing
business.
The inner center of the top semi circle is local government and all the way
down through the
center of the drawing is government with three pegs interlocking the local
government the state
government and the national government with the local account web pages that
are displayed as local,
state, national and international web pages. The pegs have letters in them and
they spell out REPS for
representative or the elected officials. With the public much more interactive
with government at all three
levels; all officials in all three levels of government will have to become
much more interactive on all
the issues and this is why reps is spelled out interlocking the levels of
government as another medium
by which decisions will be condensed and justified to the public. Basically
the objective here is to
integrate the process of individual power and responsibility for any one
representative to be directly
responsible to the empowerment structure held by the public individually.
At 3 O'clock in the center is the state government and below that the national
government which
are inter locked with the mass data management and storage network. To the
left side of the system is
data input for the state and the federal government. All the eight semicircles
feed data that is presented
to all citizens in the same manner unless security protocols have dictated a
different path. The two inner
circles provide in real-time the financial cost and gains and representatives
and citizens can view this
information and the representatives can make policy on taxing or crediting
back or providing aid and the
rest of the public will have the opportunity to completely see this
transaction and voice there opinion in
real time.
In between each section of government is an accounting process all the way to
the federal
banking commission. All the data is accounted for so that the financial and
economical controls can be
better balanced to meet the needs to provide for its society while stimulating
growth.
The lower section semi circle is the delivery of data to the web account pages
with government
numbers on money spent and received locally, in the state, and nationally,
Stock reports and financial
reports on the local commercial companies, the regional companies and
corporations, and the national
and world stock markets.
In the bottom semicircle there are four web account pages that anyone can
access from
commercial servers communication data links, the world wide web or mass media.
Most all of these
support response back systems even cable TV with a web box, although there is
still a lot of problems
getting service to all citizens so access could would and should be provided
at any responsive PFN that
supports a video display. And in public places as well like police departments
and libraries. The four
web pages would list issues plainly for the public to view and respond to. And
their would be a section
to frame issues in which the public could start a question. Also there would
be a Yeah and Nay section
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S on issues that were up for a representative vote. Also, there would be data
given on the environment, the
highway systems, the recent crime and much more vital information. This would
be determined by the
issues and events that were current first and then anyone, who wished to have
data to explore their
theories, e.g., on global warming would have at their finger tips all the data
and expert opinion as well
as an auto tutor to learn understand and relate their informed opinion back to
the rest of the world.
The figures from left to right at the bottom of the page are agriculture being
remotely controlled.
The highway systems being monitored and ultimately remotely controlled, The
car is receiving remote
service and the house being monitored and for it's energy use. The computer is
a web access, the tv at
6 o'clock is mass media with a web response box. The factory can review all
that is on the web as to the
public opinion and government policy and the world receives all the data from
every where and all the
world populous can see how the planet and the other humans are faring around
the world. And for this
to take place all the national governments agencies must clear the data to be
freely posted. Well at least
they can start some of this.
Figure 3
Figure 3 displays two variations on the billing box accrediting system and the
credit card devices
and phone devices that have been innovated for these purposes. Primarily the
billing box was designed
to be an add on unit or aftermarket device to collect a fee for use of a
vehicle, e.g. rental cars, Taxi Cabs,
buses, ect. Part 301 is either a standard credit card, ID card or any other
information card that one wishes
to use to enter information to the billing box (PFN). However with the price
of the smart cards being
greatly reduced this device is not just designed for the regular magnetic
strip cards as has been described
earlier but is designed to stay current with the more sophisticated cards, as
well as evolve to other
recognition systems e.g finger print and voice and pupil identification
systems. Of course the data
retrieved from these magnetic cards can be recorded on board in the billing
PFN as well as transmitted
back to any network gate that can make the necessary land line connection to
any credit check procedure
and mass management storage for accounting purposes and records. And when this
is done through a
Billing box or PFN system it is a commercial service product of the invention.
Part 302 is the regular or standard cell phone handset that if it is in use
the lower bill box could
be configured with out a key pad. Part 303 is a standard key pad format that
can be used to communicate
with the bill box when connected and interfaced with any the invention's
computer and supported with
the proper interfaces and software and or firm ware. Part 304 is a multibus
bar connector universal with
29 contacts so that it can support any system/device entered into the bill
box. These were earlier designs.
And this earlier design will probably not be used and will be replace by the
multi bus system IEEE1394
or the universal bus and or IrDA interface.
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Part 305 is a quick connect end on one portion that will make a pigtail to
connect with any
combination of electrical connectors on the other end of this second portion,
e.g., computers, any
electronic connections, radio or automobile, but in this case is depicted in
the drawing as RS232 part
number 306. The other short pigtail is part number 305, there may be 5 to 10
in quantity, that can slide
easily back and forth to allow many varied positions for the different devices
and the space they require.
All hardwired connections could be made with Commercial Off the Shelf devices
in the box or by
infrared com port connections. A segmented infrared bar can be aligned to any
device's infrared window
to communicate with the invention's control circuits. Also there are varied
but designated power
connections to supply power to any device by priority. Once again most all
devices presently will be
configured to IEEE1394 USB connections and have the drivers and software
supplied by the
manufactures to quickly install almost any desired system as easy as buying a
product peripheral for a
personal computer. This is one of the main reasons for the timely presentation
of the invention
After the devices are installed and connected, foam pad shims are placed
between the different
devices to quickly secure them in a protected stationary position. The dotted
lines show adjustable bin
space for the user to plan their own devices. Part 307 is a mouse ball that
one can use to run window
type graphic programs either displayed in the unit display 308 and/or any
larger display within the field
of view for the driver, either LCD vacuum tubes e.g. VGA flat screen, or the
new hologram wind screen
in the newer cars (e.g., Pontiac Grand Prix). Part 308 is the unit display,
part 309 is an emergency power
pack, and part 310 is the secure bill box.
The structure of the box has been described in the best mode of carrying out
the invention as to
it's wall structure and insulative characteristics and will be modified and or
configured in many different
shapes and sizes if necessary , however an attempt to standardize all boxes in
their categories will be a
main consideration in the commercial development of the invention.
Figure 3a
Figure 3a is a interior block diagram as to how a card swipe or card swipe
cell phone would be
connected to one of the billing box or PFN computers and would then process
the magnetic data stored
on a card through the software provided by the card swipe manufacturers, as
well as any credit card
company proprietary security software used by the PFN computer. An electronic
signal with a
preprogramed dial up number to a credit card approval service company with any
proprietary software
to process the data in the remote location would be partially and or either
held on the card or in the PFN
software package depending on the type of cards and devices chosen to complete
this remote billing and
payment procedure, e.g., smart cards vs. regular cards, etc.
This data because, in most cases will require a radio transmission should be
sent as an encrypted
algorithm to protect against any criminal hackers pirating legitimate credit
card information out of the
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airways. Most credit card strip reader manufacturers design them to meet
standards and protocols such
as ISO 7811, 7811/16 and or comply with DMV format for driver licences. They
are also all
CE,FCC,UL,cUL certified. These devices were all discussed earlier in the
devices that could be
interfaced with the PFN's as peripherals section of this application to
provide mobile remote services.
It is important to understand this mobile paying function of the billing box
currently shown in
figure 3 as a add on devices for cabs, limo's, automated rental equipment and
vehicles, etc. is only the
aftermarket version of the PFN's total function to provide a means to pay for
equipment use and any and
all services surrounding vehicle and equipment use commercially. This card
swipe is another peripheral
that will be on all manufacture vehicles in time as part of any PFN's to allow
for a vehicle \ equipment
operator to pay for any use fees, uncontested tickets, or to log driver
licence information, and or pay
energy fees immediately, rather than having to stop the vehicle to stay
current monetarily for use of the
vehicle or services. They can card swipe at any time, either while taking on
any energy provisions or at
any convenient time in the comfort of their vehicle out of the elements while
using the equipment /
vehicle simultaneously.
As was mentioned earlier personal identification equipment e.g.,
fingerprinting, papillary ID,
voice recognition, pin number from key \ number pad, ID trans mission
bracelets, etc used as either
additional ID conformation peripheral systems or a future primary personal ID
credit device component
to a remote or PFN personal credit data storage accounting system will be
connected and interfaced in
the same manner as illustrated in figure 3a. Or these systems will employ any
of the interface technology
shown in figure 7 . In the case of the transmission bracelets of course the on
board PFN universal RF
receiver section will receive the signal and have a serial data conditioning
of the signal encoder or this
will be a function of the PFN .computer processor and software through a
special IC decoder \ encoder
card part of the computer hardware.
Also for security the transmitted data will be recorded in the PFN memory
systems e.g., hard
drives, buffers or flash memory devices or MO drives or CD write drives, etc.
as well as any remote
location credit data management and storage system. Accompanying the credit
data and amount request
will be the ESNVIN number of the sending PFN along with time date and locator
coordinates for the
billing, charging , ticketing and acceptance of as well as any acceptance
criterion for these transactions.
e.g. electronic signature or hard copies generated by on board printers etc.
which are turned in with a
transfer of memory at the end of a shift or use of a vehicle or service In
drawing 3a 302 is a cell
phone that can either be inside the billing box or outside and only
electronically connected. 302 here is
out fitted with a card swipe slot that can read the magnet IC strip of a
credit card or a driver ID, etc.
There are two electrical connection shown coming from the special cell phone
320 and 321. 320 goes
to a PCMCIA modem to support data communication by a cellular phone for the
PFN computer. (these
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actual connectors can be serial RS232 connections or IC cards configured into
the PFN computer
hardware mother board ,euroboard or done with edge ribbon connectors etc. 321
illustrates a direct
connection if the special cellular phone is already out fitted for data
delivery in its circuitry and therefore
would connect directly with the computers RS232 with a mere cable or utilize
the new 1394 universal
bus system or utilize any connection to handle TTL or the standard serial port
PS2. For this multi tasking
phone to both send and receive data through the cellular system and to process
the digital data retrieved
from the magnetic strip a function switch will send a firmware stored signal
to the PFN to process and
store the card swipe data in it's hard drive if on board or in it's processor
buffer to be retrieved and sent
via the PCMCIA modem to the cell phone and to the remote location. As stated
earlier this function
could be manually contrived with the button first processing and then in
another position sending it as
data through the cellular protocol. Or this data could be performed through
soft ware commands stored
on the card and PFN or even in the cell phones firmware e.g. D-WAVE phone
protocol from Sony and
its multitasking capability out fitted with a card swipe. 301 is a plain card
swipe possibly one of the
ACETEK series mentioned earlier as this invention's experimental prototype
products. It connects
directly to the PFN computer either serial PS2, RS232, or simple transistor to
transistor logic TTL. 306a
merely depicts these interface options as well as shows the special cellular
phone could supply its card
data in this manner in one modality. 311 is a PFN computer and is one ideally
with at least a 386
processor as was described in the processor and computer section of the PFN's
described earlier. 311
would also be programmed with all the necessary and proprietary software to
complete these security
billing procedures. In the lower left corner of 311 is a small square with the
letter [B] this stands for
buffer or hard drive in the PFN computer.
The number 319 has lines that go to the little square [B] on 311 and to the
horizontal square to
the left. The horizontal memory square is additional memory to keep a record
of credit tans action most
probably done with Sony memory sticks, how ever any of the memory systems
described could be
utilized and then erased by the proper procedures after any reasonable tie had
past on questionable charge
entries.
323 with a lighting symbol signifies a wireless cellular signal conditioning
device for data
transmission to and from PC's. [PCMCIA] in a square. 313 is a two way data
modulator for any 1tF
transmitters, receivers, or transmitters, used to down load data from the PFN
or in this case the card
swipe protocol to a remote location or gateway, etc. 314 is a two way Motorola
reflex protocol to down
load data to a remote location. (this would involve PFN software that could
break up the data into 20
bit segments and transmit the data to a remote location that could
reconstitute any lengthy multiple
transmission into a complete secure text transmission if it is determined
necessary to develop a secure
algorithmic protocol for credit card data transfers. However Motorola is very
protective of these
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transmission signal protocols already and this might prove a secure system if
practically capable of
handling the quantity of data in any commercial transaction.
All these different data communication pathways 'are being discussed presently
for the use of
the card swipe billing to demonstrate the connectability of all the previously
described peripherals and
to demonstrate to anyone skilled in the art the ease, feasibility,
practicality and obvious reasonable
development of this inventions interfaces to organize and control the process
to combine all types of
communication e.g. wireless, and land based, into a protected focal center
that is capable of processing
and controlling, recording reporting and billing for the use of equipment and
related services in an
accountable modality or protocol.
322 is a new product that adds so much to ease interfacing of cellular
technology to the PFN and
that is why it is mentioned here directly . It is a complete data hook up of
modem transceiver and antenna
with a PCMCIA III connectability to any of the PFN computers. The last square
is a standard telephone
data modem for computer data transfer, the little circled (H) stands for hard
wired to land phone lines;
and is listed hear to demonstrate that the PFN will be used with stationary
equipment as well as mobile
equipment and vehicles to value use and service related to use as well . 318
shows the connectability of
all these data conditioning and transmission devices described above and in
figure 7 and within this
application and all related applications. 318 also shows that the memory 319
will store any crucial down
loaded data to a remote location on board the PFN as well.
315 is a pager receiving station, 316 is a cellular phone receiving station,
and 317 is a radio
frequency station and these are all wireless to land based phone node systems,
they can be gateways or
they can provide wireless communication through standard ISDN phone lines to
secondary commercial,
private or public entities that perform gateway functions , accounting
services and or monitoring and or
remote control function to a vehicle \ equipment or any multitude of net work
services as shown for all
three wireless communication modalities in drawing 3a. However, one important
note to remember is
that the listing of these commercial, governmental public and or private
functions and services listed in
figure 3a under each of these wireless modalities is in no way confining to a
specific wireless modality
. These services could function in any one of these wireless modalities and,
in fact, use a multitude of
them. Some of the services named here do not relate solely to the car swipe
system functions either .
Drawing 3 a demonstrates and drawing 7 explain how all the peripherals are to
be interfaced and the
functions named for the three wireless modalities serve only as a space to
reiterate all these vast
functions that the PFN will be capable of though all it's networked devices.
'This entire document and
related applications detail all the peripherals and their interfaces which
fall within the claims of this
invention. And the mere fact that some service is not mentioned by name in
this application or any of
the related application does it mean that it is excluded from the claims which
make up the nature and
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scope claim of accountability as it relates to any vehicle / equipment use,
abuse, unauthorized use and
or any related services provided for any use or in equating any abuse or
damage of a vehicle or piece of
equipment, person or property.
Figure 4
Shows a picture of a dash board in a traditional sedan. Just right of the dash
is the PFN and it is
depicted as a box with a personal computer slid all the way out of the
containment with the lid or screen
display opened so that the driver could use the computer screen with a GPS
system like DeLorme
running to receive automated directions to an address he was unfamiliar with.
Below the computer and
the secure lock up center section rests a cellular phone that has its phone
modem connector coupled to
the heal of the phone and directly to the right is a second communication
device a pager that is also
coupled to an optical scanner in this case as was described in the first
patent. The lock up in the center
can house permanent invention computers and storage records plus GPS and any
communication devices
that are desired on the vehicle all the time, This lock up section is only
accessible by authorized
personnel in the most ideal situation and hopefully mandated by law. This
section would house the PFN
invention computers and in the place of an on board personal computer their
would be an LCD screen
that could display map graphics if need be, through the on board computer
systems.
This is only one basic configuration for a PFN and the system could be re
arranged in any number of
ways.
Now for a more specific parts description of the individual parts numbered.
The square boarder
with circles inside is the walls of the PFN case. 401 is the outer metal case
plate which can be up to 3/16"
thick made out of AR metal plate to resist penetration or drilling. 402 is the
inner metal plate up to a 1/8"
thick and it is made of the same AR plate. 403 is an insulating product and
their is two that are being
used to construct the prototypes. One is "solid smoke" a product developed for
the space shuttle and
"Geobond" a gupsum product. None of these products or specifications should be
considered the only
way to create a secure PFN containment to fulfill any part of the nature and
scope of this invention. The
thickness of 403 the insulating section would not exceed 3/8". 404 represents
one kind of lock cylinder
like those used in safety deposit boxes, however, not made of a soft metal
tike brass. From 404 can be
seen two flat bars that go out past the inner plate 402 where they pass
through a solenoid catch
mechanism that when it is deenergized will not allow the bars to pass out of
the front edge of the
encasement. 404 in the center can also be opend manually with a key. once
again their are many manual
and or electrically automated locking devices that could be utized for this
same purpose.
In figure 4, 404 is displaying the bottom compartments access panel swung open
on a piano
hinge part number 406. So the view is displaying the back of the panel so bars
can be seen and that is
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why they are depicted as solid lines. Behind 404 lies the secured section
which is represented with dotted
circles because they are located in back of the bottom access panel in the
open position. If the center
section is the designated section to handle or store the legal storage
electrical components it will not have
an electric lock release or it will be disconnected to only allow for the
proper authorities to remove this
data or component parts. 405 is the bottom access door in the closed position
and that is why the bars are
depicted in dotted lines. Once again 406 is a piano hinge and is a part on
each of the three sections as a
point df articulation for the panel door. 407 is the standard glove box that
can either be used or
discontinued to allow for other rerouted accessories HVAC vent, ducting and
planums or blowers motors,
etc. 408 is the SIR compartment which is the sudden impact restraint or the
Air bag.
With on board distance sensing for front and rear as well as even side
surveillance of the
environment any impending impact would be sensed and automatically with draw
any opened draws in
use into the containment which would allow the aesthetic skin panel/drink
holding table to spring return
to a closed position. If the drinks were in the table with the table in the
down position all 3 access panel
doors would be closed and secured. this would be accomplished by electric
servo motors or vacuum
motors or cylinders or diaphragm systems for speed. Also the electric
cylinders could be used, e.g.,
"Memory metal cylinders". At no time would the center section or a part of the
center section be open
to the cabin during operation as this is the protected black box storage area.
Of course these
configurations are flexible and the designs can very greatly, but when a
permanent area is chosen it has
to remain inaccessible till the proper authorized personnel supervise any
reconfiguration, e.g., certified
service personnel that have to enter their service identity credentials.
Otherwise a customers insurance
company must do the same or support clerical personnel for the police or
department of motor vehicles.
410 is the pager as earlier described with a scanner on the front however any
interface and
connector system could be employed in the PFN. Also Motorola pager processor
"Createalink could be
utilized here and even as an effective processor in the center section that is
closed for the ultimate secure
service functions as another C.O.T.S. computer communication combination for
the inventions control
center. 411 is the standard cell phone with 409 depicting a connector modem,
which wil! be wired
through the trays to any on board computer to receive and transmit data to any
system in the PFN or
connected to it. 412 is a specialized tray connector made by or for the
personal laptop computer that will
provide all or any of the desired physical connections to interface the
computer to the host vehicle or any
other peripherals or to net work it with any other computers. The holding and
securing tray will then
couple to the sliding either motorized or powered by vacuum. And so the
electrical connections to be
functional here it will have a controlled flex cable to 503 the central buss
channel or canaleta or race way
where it will route wiring up and down inside the containment.
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Figure 5
Figure 5 shows two views of the secure box for the PFN in the Dash. The top
view is of the back
of the box cut off so the components can be viewed. The top shelf is showing a
laptop with all its varied
connections that have a preformed shelf designed to supply the necessary
connections directly to the
laptop connectors. There also is a tube or channel part 503 running from top
to bottom in the back of the
case in which all the shelf connecting leads are channeled together and all
the appropriate connections
have been secured to the devices in their shelved trays. This same tube works
as an antenna galley and
channel to house the control buss of wires to the out side of the secured and
protected PFN . These wires
are protected in a armored flex cable like the one described in the first
patent for the protected beeper.
When 503 doubles also as a antenna galley in the back of the PFN and for the
full height of the
containment the outer metal plate part 401 is replaced with a strip of Amoco's
poly-sulfone thermal
plastic %Z" thick 1 and 1\2" wide strip which runs the height of the box some
9 to 10 inches long. This
thermal window is provided in the back of the PFN to make it very difFcult for
anyone to tamper with
these vital circuits and to also allow for a signal to be received when the
C.O.T.S. products patch
antennas are not sufficient and they have provided for an external antenna
hook up. And as also
mentioned earlier there is another option to provide for reception in the
protected containment to receive
any necessary signals through using the same poly-sulfone product and creating
port holes for the
necessary signals to enter into the protected containment to reach the
standard C.O.T.S. antennas e.g.
patch type , but also provide protection from heat and fire . And of course
these port holes would be
located in hard to reach areas.
The bottom box illustrated in figure 5 is showing the lock access panel doors
with a piano hinge
406 for this sturdy structure .This 1/8" thick access door is made out of
stainless steel and numbered 510
in figure 5 . As mentioned earlier along with adding an additional way, the
access doors 510 can be
opened in three different ways, one with a key in two places as displayed in
figure 5, another as
described in figure 4 with the throw bars out to the electric solenoid catch
mechanisms and there by
finally opened by electric solenoid release triggered from the inside program
software of the inventions
on board controllers which is reliably energized by the emergency batteries
inside the PFN. The two key
system would also have the same solenoid lock release system.
These access doors and locks are finally covered by an upholstered and padded
dash plate / drink
holding table numbered 507 which is illustrated in the down and open position
and appears as the end
view of this dash plate / drink table . The front is molded and formed to
create a uniform appearance to
the dash board. This aesthetic dash front may be constructed by covering the
compartment panels with
cushioning and upholstery and not having the drink top dash panel.
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dash plate /drink
table in the closed position. 502 is the two sided lock placement cylinders if
this type of lock system is
employed. And 511 depicts the electric latch plate and solenoid assembly that
receives the lock bolts
from the keyed cylinders. 505 is another piano swing hinge for the table /
dash cover plate. 504 is a
coiled spring that returns the dash plate when all the drawers and or trays
are retracted. 506 is a shelf
10 roller that can be slid into any number of slots in many places of 402 the
inner wall of the box . These
slots will either accept a tee ended fastener that supports these shelf
casters or rollers or it will allow a
compartment plate or separating partition wall to be slid down the slot. These
compartment shelves or
rollers can be moved or exchanged to create any number of configurations,
however, the trays will be
standardized to certain sizes that will be customized by the manufactures to
accommodate their products.
15 These separating plates have lock blocks that have drillings with 10/32"
screws that will thread into
tapped receiving holes in 402 the inner wall. 508 in one of these partitions.
506 the rollers have a screw
that can be tightened to clamp the tee device against the inner wall skin-
part 402: 412 is the personal lap
top in the top shelf. 509 is the trays that ride on the rollers. these trays
presently are designed to either
be half the size of the PFN or to go all the way across the containment. This
is not the only design for
20 the movable trays and adjustable flat compartments and should not be
considered so, but this design is
being prototyped presently . Any protected containment or interface that is
structured to coordinate and
control remote functions on a machine all fall within the nature and scope of
the invention.
Figure 6
25 Depicts 3 possible drawers configurations for a possible application of the
secure box and the
PFN equipment. The top draw houses the laptop computer 412, the bottom draw
houses the power pack
batteries 601 and 602, the transformer 613 and the inverter 603 along with
power supplies that are varied
power taps 617 for the C.O.T.S. products housed in the PFN. And the center
drawer houses all the
essentials to complete the necessary function for the PFN. It has a GPS 616, A
Cell Phone 605 a Pager
30 609 and a small PFN computer or controller 611 and a data storage MO disk
drive or memory sticks 612.
With the drawers and compartments 12.5 x 12.5 x3" all components easily fit
into the three drawers.
The top drawer 614 is showing the multiple fittings that would be molded into
the tray and not
visible as a end view but instead as a top or side view. In most cases the
manufacture would not have to
oust a tray and probably would not do so for all the possible connections for
the laptop. However they
35 are shown here and mentioned as all being possible. Reading from left to
right the first connection would
be for l4.vdc as a power input for the computer and is supplied by the bottom
shelf tray from part 614.
On the top shelf again the next round circle to the right of the DC power
connector icon the PS2 mouse
or keyboard connection for an external mouse or GPS 616 connection in some
cases. The next comport
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is a 9 pin serial port and the following one is a 9 hole additional monitor
port. Then the little square is
the infrared communication port, and the very next one is a parallel printer
port 25 hole LPTI port and
the last one on the left is the a USB communication port and most likely the
one that will be used with
any peripheral hook ups in the box , however any of these connections might be
used for any number of
interface connections and it is possible that a laptop manufacture or
secondary provider for the trays may
outfit any and or all the communication ports with a service connector in the
tray. Ideally the placement
into the tray or cartridge that is affixed to the rollers and rolls it self or
is placed on a shelf and does so
. In any case the tray or cartridge for any peripheral will instantly plug up
to the laptop or other device
when placed and secured in it. This would replace any need for thumb screws to
complete any required
secured connecting unions. And would accomplish a plug and play modality for
rapid deployment into
a PFN's electronic array of accessories as a compliment to the full complement
of the inventions
electronic devices and innovations. These have been detailed earlier and their
exact configuration will
depend on how much the OEM of the host machine will provide in their PCM or
accessories. But as was
illustrated earlier the components to provide all the stated services are
available through the inventions
technology if need be.
The bottom shelf or power tray as designed for this prototype will have two
batteries one a l2vdc
part number 602 and a 6vdc part no. 601 and these two batteries are wired in
series to create 18 volts,
which is wired into the primary windings of the transformer 613 that provides
multiple current level taps
or solid state regulated chip circuits to energize all the varied C.O.T.S.
products in the PFN. These
prototype voltages are I.5 vdc, 3.vdc, 6 vdc, 7.5 vdc, 12 vdc, 14.5 vdc. 18-
19.5 vdc and also because in
many cases people will enjoy being able to plug their computers right in 604
is provided as a transformer
and rectifier or converter and tied directly to the primary coil of the
transformer 613, 604 receives it's
power from a 120 vac circuit that is created from the host vehicles l2vdc
supply of 6 amps and the PFN
battery pack energizing an inverter of 250 watts, which also supplies 120vac
to a plug prt.#617 in the
front stainless steel access plate for other devices that people might need
120 volts AC. e.g. small heating
blanket, coffee pot and/or hair dryer
In the second draw 607,608,617 are OCR optical character recognition scanning
devices and they
are wired to a micro processor so that the unique digital signal from a
scanned alpha-numeric image on
any and all of the devices that have LCD displays, e.g., GPS, cellphone, pager
and respond to any
appropriately addressed message with the proper preprogrammed response as
described in the first
application.
This scanning interface is only one example most all the of these COTS devices
have their own
interfaces to allow them to communicate with any onboard computer they are
connected to, e.g., serial
or TTL, etc. And any of the IC components would be all part of a circuit if it
was in the secure lock up
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as a mandated circuit function by law. 606 is a connector for a cellular
phone. and on the back of the tray
are a number of different sockets for data transfer cables to the 503 wire
race or cable channel that goes
from top to bottom in the containment.
In the back of the middle drawer part number 615 indicate a lock partition
wall in this prototype
and behind this wall is where the PFN controller/computer 611 is along with
its' data storage system 612
Figure 7
Shows all the basic components of the PFN and all the options to interface
them. The
communication links are all listed in the left column and they are as follows:
the One-way pager, two-
way pager ReFlex, any number of different radio transceivers for long and
short range, land line phones,
special cell PCMCIA card phone, and land line modem for computers, cellular
phones and GPS system.
The next column the second column and the fourth column are interface
modalities to link the
communication devices and all the functions and accessories to the 6 types of
computer interfaces that
are used by the PFN and the personal lap tops that a person may wish to have
on board and interface with
their PFN. In this second colunin, there is, sensing or scanning which is
described in the first patent for
the one way pager. Also, decoding and encoding is a possible modality to
retrieve POSAC or alpha
numeric messages through either hard wiring or the above mentioned scanning
system. The hard wiring
serial input commands and or any digital signal commands in the case of using
Motorola 's ReFlex
protocols would be interfaced with the PFN computer or any other desired
computer. This data
transferred would be converted to a format that the computers were
preprogrammed and had firmware
and software to process it in an explicit manner with respect to Motorola's
protected protocols. Or it
could be used in the most simplistic fashion just as sensed current on one of
the I/O pins of a micro
controller or serial input on the more complex systems computers to activate a
preprogram task in
response to a current or specific signal presence. If through a small
microprocessor and accompanying
circuit a specific signal can be recognized and be predictable through a
specific phone tone dial up for
the ReFlex protocols , then it would be possible to do more sophisticated
functions with the coded
messages. This invention will seek out a cooperative relationship with the
makers of the ReFlex pager
technology Motorola in order to incorporate this pager into the protected
PFN's. protocols
RF transceivers for all types of radios either transceivers or just receivers
that can be used in the
invention either as the primary communication link to a gate way node or those
used in the earlier
described repeater function which would be used for short range transmission
and then their message or
signal would be boosted or repeated to the gate way node via the longer rang
communication systems
on board. These radio transmissions would interface with the computers via
serial input digital signal
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whether they were a digital signal or passed through a ADC analogue to digital
converter chip, or they
might have there own complex protocols already provided by the manufactures of
the radio equipment.
REMOTELY CONTROL/SHUT DOWN VEHICLE AND POLICE CONTROL VEHICLE
There are also plans to modify a standard car FM radio or receiver with a
short range FM
receiver which also has a micro processor to recognize an appropriate request
signal received from a
police cruiser via this modified car radio which is always on but in sleeper
mode checking for a police
request. And this police request will first turn on an indicator lite on all
cars that receive the police
request and simultaneously (if in a second generation of this invention will
activate a short range fm traps
mission either part of the standard radio or part of some other on board
system which will in turn down
load the ESNV1N and registration data to the police cruiser's computer for the
cruiser's software to only
display each signal data received once. And then the officer can determine the
vehicle he wishes to
remotely shut down. Provided of course all the devices are on board to do so.
Also when the signal is
received by the police cruiser a specific electronic or digital address for
the specific vehicle transmitting
their information to the cruiser is also transmitted . And then the officer
can talk through the suspect
vehicle radio on a isolated set of frequencies and ask the car to pull over
after already having checked
the registration ect. There is also a prototype planned to due the shut down
or any part of this process
with a laser light communication system or other short range transmissions
devices as explained earlier
in the best mode of carrying out the invention. and the other three related
patents.
Land line hook ups will be connected to the standard modem products on the
market to modulate
and demodulate any signal transmitted over the land line based phone systems
which are constantly
improving their switching to handle more data and digital transmission.
CORDLESS MODEM INTERFACE PRODUCT FOR PFN DATA TRANSFERS
The cordless phone that is outfitted with the standard j-11 phone plug in the
hand held receiver
also uses the standard modem. The experimental cordless phone data transfer
have been using the
900mhz phones. Transmission has to be slow due to band width but with a
compression/ decompression
of digital signals done in the base station of the cordless phone and in the
hand held receiver this can be
remedied. The most obvious solution would be to use the compression
decompression digital chips used
by the paging industry with reconfigured firmware burned into condition the
signal for standard phone
data transmissions that will be compatible with the standard modems. However
this cordless phone
connection has worked when connected up and transferring data at 2400 baud
with no signal
conditioning. It might handle higher but a chip should be put in the base
station portion of the cordless
phone with hand shake data to quickly state the band width limits of the
cordless transfer to the contacted
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computer. These would be very simple modifications for a cordless phone
manufacture that increases
the convenience for laptop owners to check E-mail etc. without a land line
socket, e.g., check E-mail
from the patio, and could even be used for manufactures to check their smart
chips in appliances
remotely over the phone to diagnose product failures and give customer advice
for parts or customer
seance.
Just outfit the module chip modem with a J-11 phone jack
The next interface discussed is a complete product that the invention plans to
incorporate to
interface all cellular functions to any of it's computers. It is the Complete
PC card which allows for land
line and cellular interfacing and this will be hardwired via a PCMCIA socket
on any of the PFN
computers and this is already set up for laptop's .
Of course the PCMCIA cards are available with cables to connect cell phones up
for digital
transfer to computers and these have been all detailed in this application and
prior applications.
The GPS system will either be in a on board chipset that will send its
information by request or
triggered latches in TTL back to the system requesting earth coordinates thru
Serial UART connections
or RS232 connections.
The next column is all PFN computers from the simplest the parallax StampII,
which is
prototyped presently as the stopbox and record system shutdown device to the
most complex that will
support digital imaging and full video applications if so desired. This
section also has the memory and
on board storage systems.
These products were already detailed earlier.
Before moving on to show the versatility of the PFN computer systems this is a
small list of the
peripherals that are available to support any desired functions for any
industry need. The AIM 104-
motion-1-a motor controller the AIM104-Video-video capture board-Aim104 VGA
LCD-3-Super VGA
flat panel and CRT ModuIe.TheAim 104-CAN OptoIsolated CAN interface module,
the AIM 104-ser4
4 channel serial communications. And the rest will be just listed as their
part module numbers without
descriptions but it is important to under stand that with this modular
capability on the 5 more
sophisticated PFN computers that all functions and capabilities exist and are
demonstrated to drive and
manage any peripherals needed in any industry to fulfill the claim to monitor
control report back and
store data in multiple locations and for all kinds of data mediums desired by
any software program.
The remaining modules to augment the computer systems are: AIM 104-ser4 , AIM
104-1N 16, AIM 104-
1032, AIM-MULTH-IO, AIM104-RTC, AIM104-ADC16/1N8, AIM104-VGA-CRT AIM104-
DAC2/iN8, AIM104-ETHERAIM104-ICEYDISP, AIM-OUT16, AIM104-PULSE . All ofthese
modules
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mating buss connectors, and
these circuits are credit card in size.
The next interface modality column has been set up to closely relate to the
host vehicle
peripherals or function accessories they can best service with most any of the
computers listed. For the
most part on this chart everything moves from side to the center to the sides
with the center computer
10 column receiving data and issuing commands or storing or reporting data as
prescribed by its software
commands. Their are many variations possible with all the computers available
and the interfaces
available, as a genera! rule, for the best combinations of communications with
controllers circuits and
the best combinations with their interfaces to the peripherals that they can
support they are across the
page form each other. But their is a wide variety of all that is listed here
that is compatible and will
15 function well together and that is why figure seven is designed this way to
display this versatility. These
two last columns the interfaces and the functions have been detailed already
here in other sections of
this application and also in the other two related filings.
Note: Once again no specific readings of any environmental sensors are given
in these
documents or set up for software parameters triggers or latches to record or
report a reading even though
20 their are many standards that already exist today. This is a question to be
answered by the authorities and
decided on as to whether they want warning levels and what criteria will be in
place for this protocol.
They will of course be determined and be place in any PFN software to perform
the monitoring and
reporting function this technology has be en designed to do.
Note: With this in mind the invention is being commercialized by constantly
surveying in a
25 deliberative process all or as much of society as to the proper use and
what constitutes abuse of the
invention as to how this technology will be prototyped and commercialized.
This survey process is for
determining the public and commercial, interest and concerns as well as
address any government and
legal regulations and laws and help to guide the correct pathway of controls
for society's equipment. This
will be a process that will be on going into the future as has been described
and will be applied as the
30 invention is licensed to be commercialized.
Figure 8
This drawing shows the standard Mac 8 pin serial port in the top left hand
corner and the pins are
designated as to their functions . The tower left shows the PC standard
digital input connector and below
35 the illustration is a box chart with the pin numbers and the functions. In
the upper right hand corner is
the standard PS/2 mouse function connection and below the PS2 mouse connection
is the Pin functions
description chart as well. And in the lower right hand comer of figure 8 is a
PS/2 illustrated as a
Keyboard connection along with it's pin function chart.
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Many peripherals such as video systems or digital cameras use either
combinations of the serial
port and the mouse or keyboard connections if they are not equipped with the
latest USB connectors
IEEE 1394. Also the key board connection is a standard way to add the card
swipe systems to all PFN
computers without having to hard wire and solder connections. This will be an
advantage to Cab
companies buying regular vehicles and just plugging in devices in a PFN that
are easy to plug in to the
PFN for immediate use.
Figure 9
Figure 9 is a continuation of the hardware connectors that will find use in
the PFN to accommodate
backward technologies. This first version of the SCSI-I connector is a Groan
50 way female delta
connector and it is an external connector. Because of the large amount of pin
connections the connector
is displayed as if the center section has been removed.
Just below the external SCSI-I connector in drawing 9 is an internal SO way
ribbon connector
with two mid sections removed left and right of the center orientation notch
for space saving reasons in
this drawing. Any internal linking of video cards ,ect. can be achieved in
this fashion inside the secure
PFN. However most of this would be done for experimental prototyping or add on
of C.O.T.S. products
or to meet backward engineering requirements as their are many types of
integrated circuits and socket
pin connectors for add on peripherals for internal applications PC 104
protocols ect. and euroboards as
earlier discussed .
At the very bottom of the page is a PC SCSI 25 way female D connector used by
Macintosh .
These different connectors are displayed and chosen because of how certain
prototypes are going to be
linked to other C.O.T.S. products and rapidly connected. However any number of
connectors could be
utilized or integrated circuits could be interfaced with even solid soldered
connections.
On the right side of the page the pin numbers are given in a chart for all
three types of SCSI
connectors displayed and their functions are labeled.
Most of the SCSI and parallel ports are needed to support the video and
graphic applications of
the past and therefore are displayed and are going to be used in some
circumstances , However there are
far better connectors and interface protocols available today.
Figure 10
This drawing covers the old and the new of the most standard computer
connection /connectors
for interfacing equipment. First the old serial cable 1294 connectors for 9
pin and 25 pin at the top of
figure 10 and at the bottom the new USB IEEE1394 with it's male and female
ends 1394 SMT and 1394
MM series.
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The serial connectors 9 and 25 pin at the top of the page are the most
standard way peripherals
have been connected to a host computer and will be employed extensively in the
PFN for a very long
time. Most C.O.T.S. products for GPS, Cellular phones RF transmitters or
receivers or any combination
of the two also use these kinds of connections to interface the signals
received and or converted to digital
and or Binary codes through their specific provided software and prepared for
e.g. windows program or
Dos operating systems. Most often these interfaces have been achieved with
these two serial connectors
for complete and sophisticated computers and for basic controllers and even
small micro controllers.
Even if this is not a sophisticated operating system like windows or Dos and
it is only burned in software
to a chip these serial connectors have been most generally used most to
complete these tasks.
At the bottom of the page in Figure 10 is the latest connectors which are also
smaller in size
physically ,which is a great advantage to the invention and the space
considerations of the PFN. But most
importantly this new IEEE 1394 BUS system eliminates a lot of the bottle neck
in the back of computer
systems with respect to these hard ware connections and allow for greater
coupling and networking of
systems for all serial/digital interfacing for the unskilled as well as the
skilled in the arts. Due to Sony,
Micro Soft Philips, ect., just to mention a few because just about every major
electronic supply
corporation even in the auto industry is designing their products physical
connections and software
programs to be compatible to this new protocol IEEE 1394; it has made the PFN
a very realistic and
practical as well as necessary component for personal security of these
sensitive and expensive items as
well ideal modality to interface and control them and their functions with
accountability. While much
time could be spent in discussing specific past devices and all these
interfaces as well as the newer ones
most all the peripherals that will be added individually will be plug/install
program/ and play . And in
most all the software watch dog programs will be able to search for the
peripherals and identify their
presents and control them as well as record their data when so indicated by
the PFNs computer program
or other legal mandate on board software program running.
Figure 11
Is a infrared laser diode component part chip emitter 1102 and detector 1101
to receive a light
transmission and to emit a light data transmission between two devices e.g.
camera and a lap top
computer outfitted with these chips and a transceiver to processes the signal
and condition the signal or
convert it to a analogue signal or digital data stream which is usable by the
devices. This of course is all
preprogrammed software / firmware for this interface to take place. This is a
usual use of this component
along with the IrDA transceiver in both devices. Much more description of this
type of interface will be
covered in the third and following patent in parts series 1000 where the
interfacing of digital systems will
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be done in some cases with fiber optics And or IrDA light transmissions in the
exterior of any PFN
modalities.
However for the internal functions in the PFN will for the foreseeable future
use the Hewlett-
Packard IrDA compliant transceivers 1 lSKb/s,4.OMb/s Discrete Emitters and
detectors which will be
employed for the prototypes and any IrDA interface with peripheral devices in
the secure lock up. HP
is being used to be more compliant to the vast amount of C.O.T.S. products
Hewlett-Packard has
supplied their IrDA interfaces to already. From Palm Tops, Lap Tops, Cameras,
Cellular phone modems,
etc. And finally for most all of the fiber optic plastic or glass fibers they
will employ Patton modems to
connect to standard RS232 computer ports like their Models 1110A,1140A,ect. Or
in the PFN computer
an edge connector will support a quick connect card interface module where the
fiber cable can plug
directly in to a holled socket for the glass fibers and be decoded by the card
and sent on to the inventions
computers in the appropriate format.
There are so many vast amounts of interfaces to complete the unique functions
of the inventions
PFN to create an accurate accounting network and record system that it is
necessary to name at the very
least the most obvious. Because, all of these interfaces mentioned will be
used in one industry application
or in another to meet all the special needs and configurations the invention
will be specifically designed
for, and in this case e.g. EMF interference ect. is the major concern for some
automotive applications.
However the most efficient and least expensive system as well as the simplest
will be three major
considerations for any PFN construction or any other innovation of the
invention.
Figure 1Z
This is an end picture of the powertrain control module connector and all
eighty connection pins.
This power train control module connector depicted in this drawing is from a
GM 97 Chevy Lumina or
Cutlass Oldsmobile. And it is being used because most of the prototype devices
have been done on the
Chevy Lumina. Most all automobile manufacturers have their own programmable
controllers even if
their connectors and pins may be different in placement and configuration and
vary through out the years
of manufacture.
Much of the connections will become more standard in the future between
different cars because
the electronic supply line manufactures are growing is size and simultaneously
shrinking in number as
they capture market share. And also because the telecommunication industries
are merging with other
radio communication industries as well as automobile electronics. This is the
major reason for the
invention developing a protected accountable interface platform to meet
societies needs as well as take
advantage of this more universal interfacing of electronic components for all
of industry in the future.
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S However to accommodate present and backward technologies as well as address
the functions
of the invention and how it will utilize present day automobile sensors and
devices as well as address the
future more sophisticated sensors and the different monitoring systems for
future different energy
sources and quantity of energy use.
Using this GM PCM connector presently as an example on pin 16 the established
S volt reference
for the throttle position sensor ,the mass air pressure sensor and the exhaust
gas recirculation valve
would be monitored for malfunction and reported on by any of it's trouble
codes through the on board
PFN computer to a phone node a small monitoring control system like (e.g., On
Star). Of course the
driver would receive all these error messages in real time as well and a
reasonable time would be
tolerated for them to interact with their service program and apprize their
monitoring service if different
1 S than their service provider that they were going in for service at a
specific date. At which time the
monitoring service would ask the car through a preprogrammed date in the
vehicle soft ware to run a full
diagnostic on it's EPA systems to see if their was any unrepaired devices.
Presently some of these
systems work on analogue current and digital where their acceptable
operational parameters are judged
by a specific voltage reading or digital signal received in TTL, e.g., +S -S
or a coded automotive
language or serial Data DART.
Presently the monitored EPA pins would be [ 16]-TP sensor MAP Sensor and EGR
Valve with
the report criterion being The trouble codes ACTIVATED P163S, PO1101, P0122,
P1107, PP1122,
P1406 and stimulated through pin [29] EGR. Also pin [30] EVAP canister Purge
Valve Driver monitored
through code activations in the PCM P16SS, P0441, P1441, and pin [54] mass air
flow sensor P0103.
2S And pin 56 would be monitored for activating the trouble codes for the
presence of an increased
level of ground through the sensor switches for the ECT, TP, MAP,IAT sensors
and A/C Refrigerant
pressure as well as the EGR valve. the trouble codes are: P0108, PO118, P0123,
P0530, P0713, P 1106,
P111S, P1121
Much of the general operation of the vehicle can be monitored for normal
operation in the same
way for oil level or loss through Pin 70, brake switch control pin 67 ect.
However the sensors will be able to sniffthe elements of vehicle exhaust and
measure the level
of toxic fluid levels in electric cars as well as report on how mechanically
safe a vehicle is or it's road
worthiness. Using sensors like the "Nose" all HC, No, So2 ect or any of the
determined toxins will be
monitored and recorded for their posse of them and their containment and any
byproduct toxic impact
3S of their use and the impact of the total vehicle when it is in use.
As lies been discussed earlier and thoroughly Controller Area Network (CAN) is
the direction
the automotive manufacturing is headed to allow for the combination of all
these different types of
systems to be interfaced electronically. Philips semiconductors has a
multitude of In Vehicle networks
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(IVN) that are finding wide application in today's vehicles so just a moment
more will be taken to
discuss the properties and products names that will be used in the PFN's of
the invention as interface
systems in the prototypes.
Basically Telematics networking is going to use the IEE1394 BUS for a standard
high speed,
high band width communication because it can in real time deliver the audio
and visual thanks to the
development of a dedicated layer for this multimedia Bus. This will prove to
be most necessary for
accurate inexpensive remote and automated controls, an therefore is planed for
use in the inventions
prototypes as a standard interface. It is also working its way into the
automotive industry as well as all
other related electronic fields, which makes interfacing a lot more easy.
For slower speed the universal Bus USB will be used in the slower or mid speed
applications and
also the USB-IrDA is planed for some PFN prototypes and is also seeing more
use in the automotive
field.
And finally the high speed Digital Data Bus-Optical will be used to carry
control and source data
D2B-O in the automotive (CAN'S) and therefore will also be employed in the
inventions PFN as a
interface technology. It is ot~ of this fiber-optic technology that the
earlier mentioned invention's optical
node to make simple multi connections for networking with a glass ball or
conveyance node and
branching fiber optic cables would be employed to transfer the optical signals
to other devices either in
the PFN or externally. This system shows a lot of promise because of it's
electrical immunity. The other
systems mentioned above are well designed to reduce EMF interference but none
are as reliable as this
light technology.
And of course, as was discussed earlier the standard US SAEJI850 mid speed
(Class B) standard
Bus will be one of the first employed in the PFNs as this standard bus is the
most popular in the states
at present and will be here for quite some time.
Figure 13
Figure 13 is an illustration of a by product interface of the invention. As
was mentioned earlier
this cordless phone option can be used to supply phone service to a PFN on a
temporary basis or a
permanent basis to augment or remotely change a machines pre-programmed
functions or to diagnose
malfunctioning parts by being a data link to OEM manufacturers' computerized
repair service
departments. When employed on a temporary basis the cordless phone would be to
connected up
directly as shown in figure 13. And if a permanent hook up was required the
cordless phone would be
energized and provide with a stable 3.6 vdc from the P.N. or connectable
computer to insure that the
phone would not fail due to a low battery.
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The cordless phones very greatly in cost quality and capability to handle this
type of data
transfer interface. The major obstacle in the less expensive systems is band
width limitation and speed
of processing the large digital data streams which create much slower data
transfer connections and
unreliable connections with all the other slow old phone switching still
around.
Some of the more sophisticated circuits can accomplish this data transfer by
being connected
from the computer modem directly to the front end radio transceiver circuit of
the cordless phone. This
connection is made on the output pin of the microprocessor chip that generates
dialtones from the keypad
switches activated in a standard dial up mode. This circuit is shown in block
form at the bottom of the
drawing because there are quite a large number of processor chips and circuits
manufactured and some
circuits are resisted and it is important not to be restricted by some
resisters in making this connection
1 S in some for some of these circuits. The simple connection and circuit is
depicted by circuit (A). And
when or if an improved data transfer speed are desired as well as a more
reliable and consistent data
capable circuit; circuit (B) is designed to help solve the Band width dilemma
and the bottle neck at this
point. In another simple block drawing understandable to anyone in the art;
this is accomplished with
a digital \ data compression chip in the hand set labeled 1313 and a
decompression digital \ data chip in
the base station.
1300 in the drawing can be a PFN computer, however, here a personal laptop is
used to show
another application for this cordless interface by product. In this
application the cordless phone can be
used to give laptop users a quick way to be more portable without having a
hardwire to drag out to a
remote location, e.g., a patio, etc., for around the house or building use.
This way one can receive faxes
and or E-mail with out the cost of installing expensive land line alterations
in the building , while
enjoying the use of a portable computer or laptop in a remote or unusual
location. A simplistic alteration
to allow every sold cordless phone to provide web access for faxing and E mail
as well as serve as a data
link for any machine messaging.
1301 is a standard phone jack j-11 (in the proto type),(however a special
mating notch for this
J-11 female plug and accompanying male socket will be made for the commercial
1302 phone cord that
connects the cord less phone to the computer which has a standard j-11
connector on the computer side.
This special access j-11 In 1304 handset is to prevent a person form
accidentally connecting the cordless
up directly to the land phone Line and damaging the transceiver section of the
cordless phone 1304 with
standard phone line tip and ring current) (however a dual functional phone
capability may also prove to
be a marketable asset and the appropriate circuitry can easily be provided so
that a phone can be cordless
as will as support a direct line service for times when portable power supply
is diminished. 1302 in the
prototype is a standard phone cord with 1303 another standard j-11 phone jack,
which has it's two center
leads the standard green and the red wire connected, red to the red lead of
the ear piece and the green lead
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S to just past the resistor solder point where the output pin for the dialtone
micro processor circuit connects
to the input of the radio transmission portion of the cordless hand held
receiver 1304 , (These chips vary
from manufacturer to manufacturer so this output circuit to transmitter input
circuit most be located first
and avoiding any resistors in the different circuits. All that remains is to
turn on the cordless phone to
get dial tone and start your program to get on line or to send a fax through
an automated dial up of a
preprogrammed number.
The computer by passes the microprocessor and generates the dial tones to
connect with a data
node or gateway over the standard phone lines . Of course the signal is first
transmitted to the base
station where it is converted and transmitted on the standard land based phone
lines ideally ISDN.
And Of course the cordless can be designed to turn on when a phone signal is
sent from the
computer or a current sensing switch with a semi conductor driver could switch
closed the power on
circuit to turn on the cordless phone automatically or this could be a burnt
in firmware in a small
EEPROM processor chip and a computer command in the modem or computer software
could perform
this function as well.
1304 is the cordless phone , 1310 is the base station 1307 is another j-11
standard phone jack.
1306 is another standard phone line. 1305 is the standard phone in the wall j-
11 jack. And 1308 is the
DC line coming from a transformer for the base station and 1309 is the black
cube transformer plugged
into the standard 110 ac wall socket.
The drawing below shows in block form the two types of circuits to achieve
this cordless phone
interface for data transfer from computer modem to the phone line.
1300 once again is the P.N. or computer, 1311 is the standard modem and the
two lines that come out
of the left side of the 131 I modem block (A) goes right to the output pin of
the dial tone processor 1319
then on to the radio transceiver 1312 an over to 1314 transceiver to be
processed by 1316 and on out
1317 phone line in 1318 j-11 jack in the wall.
B circuit does the same except the signal first gets compressed after the
modem 1311 in 1313
then it is routed to the radio transceiver 1312 in 1304 the hand set and then
on to 1314 radio transceiver
in 1310 the base station and is decompressed and processed by 1316 and on out
the phone line 1317.
This in actuality is a two way transmission with firmware to hand shake and
timed clock pulses
between the cordless transfer of the computer modems digital data for
compression and the
decompression exchange with the digital data from the base stations
transmissions. So in essence both
the hand set 1304 and the base station 1310 will be compressing and
decompressing digital data in this
circuit arrangement. But to simplify the explanation and drawing ; only one
direction is shown here . And
that is from the direction of the laptop and cordless phone to the Base
station 1310.
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The critical reason or criterion for this circuit is depending on the quality
of the cordless phone
and any Band width limitations to handling the modulation of expanded digital
messaging over any radio
signal. (traditionally 900mhz.)For FCC approved cordless phone applications.
Chips similar to Motorola
digital data compression decompression protocols used to handle bandwidth
problems for digital data
for the paging industry are planned for in the prototypes to over come this
possible band width difficulty
IO or situation whereever necessary. However, there are a number of
semiconductor manufacturers that
produce these kinds of IC chips for this purpose and the mere mentioning of a
particular prototype
component or modality should not limit any claim to this innovation for
cordless phones.
Figure 14
1401 is a belt buckle that has a special key to release the locked buckle or
electronic lock or any
kind of locking mechanism. 1402 is a hard nylon or similar plastic flexible
strap resistant to cutting in
the most practical way, that has and inner liner of nylon strap so that one or
two way pagers and or a
G.P.S. system like Motorola "Oncore"XT, XTsII,GT, UT, VP or Philips G.P.S.
chip set mentioned
earlier in this application can be secure and concealed in an protected
enclosure between the two nylon
straps to store these G.P.S. components along with differing levels of
transmitting devices that can
receive signals or messages, transmit signal or messages, and or alert of
sound alarms on both sides of
these traps missions.
Figure 14
Figure 14 displays varying levels of one way and two way pagers and C.O.T.S,
paging protocols
as well as voice paging applications. However, as earlier mentioned; this
invention provides for short
1tF signal transmitters with their transmissions received by every piece of
equipment that has a P.N. and
will ultimately all have 1tF transceivers to receive these emergency priority
signals and condition the
signals and repeat them in a pre programmed manner over what ever long
distance communication
hardware that exists in the PFN to the proper authorities. This is a repeater
function deserving of special
consideration and is not the same technology stated hear for the pagers in
Figure 14. As has been
described and maintained through out all these applications. However, these
types of carrying systems
e.g. belt or bracelet or even clip or tape on systems and the qualities,
properties and capabilities claimed
demonstrated for figure 14 are the same as claimed for the repeater technology
as well and while they
can perform many of the same tasks they are two distinctly different
technologies, and are herein so
stated, however equally protected in this and the related patent applications.
The G.P.S. chip set or IC board is represented in Figure 14 by # 1405. 1407 is
the patch antenna
for the G.P.S. and this cable would be place into the belt and follow the
contour of the belt to be
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concealed. 1403 is an extra battery in some equipment variations and a way to
give longevity to the entire
locator belts functions. 1406 is a speaker or a loud speaker if a monitoring
protocol determines it to be
the best option to send a message either via a pager or cell phone signal,
e.g., Motorola reflex protocol
to alert the person wearing the belt, e.g. , criminal leaving a restricted
area, or child lost and a public
announcement is desired to seek aid from responsible adults in the area. The
speaker could also emit a
loud electronic whistle or shrill alarm intermittently to attract attention to
the wearer of the locator belt
or band.
All of this would be initiated from a remote phone page or cell phone call.
Some of the C.O.T.S.
Pager products that will be used in the proto types are the Creatalink pager
processor both one way and
two way, the standard one way and two way pagers (reflex protocols) using the
interface technology
detailed in earlier related patents e.g. current sensing as was done in the
first patent and
Binary/ASCII/NMEA BIN/Loran from the G.P.S. all processed into 20 bit data
segments to meet the
Motorola reflex protocols for transmitting return data. Either through
soldered connections, or BNC
connector DB9 for RS232 as already detailed. The software for these
applications are available for
product development for this product through Motorola and only the specific
software commands must
be written to create the desired functions. This is easily accomplished on the
PC and downloaded into
the chip set processors.
This is the case for all the interfaces described in these application and due
to the many different
types of combinations to achieve even this simple locator belt it is not
practical to write the exact
programs and in fact is much more clear to describe the functions verbally and
list all the hardware parts
and software components available for even the unskilled to write programs.
Anyone skilled in the art
and even a hobbyist who can read will be able to buy these parts and the
software packages and write
these basic controller programs in a matter of hours. This is why the
functions are focused on rather than
any specific basic programming command string.
1408 is a voice recording chip to give prerecorded messages as triggered from
phone pages as
described in the first related application for the stop and control box. 1415
is a processor if the Creatalink
is not used and it could be a small stamp computer. A Stamp I although
Motorola and Philips as well as
Siemens Tech, Radio Shack and a host of others all make micro controllers or
processors to turn on the
voice chip and speaker or hailer when they receive and recognize a coded
message from 1404. Or if the
water sensor sends a signal (the small square [W} in 1408 indicates a water
sensor which would go off
if the wearer of the belt was being submerged in water. And Of course all the
electronic equipment is
made water proof.
1404a shows a C.O.T.S. standard one way pager with the inventions proprietary
non intrusive
battery peg 1409 connected to a current sensor chip exactly the same as the
first patent for the stop and
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control box to sense a silent pager vibration activation. The chip is
connected to the voice recorder chip
so when a phone page is received it draws current down out of the battery peg
circuit and creates a
ground on one pin of the current sensor which triggers the voice recorder or
howler or hailer through
speaker 1406a message or noise. And or a small micro controller with a EEPROM
can run firmware
programs to alert the surrounding public or in a two-way pager reflex protocol
application monitor 20
character bit audio sound bite of what the wearer is experiencing. And the
power is supplied by the
battery 1403a in the in the recording system. These systems could also use the
same system as the P.N.'s
and record the surroundings or report back sound and or data.. So with special
monitoring equipment on
hand these pager locator belt systems could call in if someone had a medical
emergency or hit a panic
button.
1402 is a belt on a man walking on earth. 1410 shows 4 satellite a minimum for
getting G.P.S.
coordinates and most systems mentioned use at least 6 satellites and as much
as 8 channels are available
for taking a reading in all the Motorola chip sets. 1411 (SG) tower is a
commercial server or land line
phone node or gateway as has already been thoroughly described. 1411 tower
will pick up the page signal
or RF signal or Cellular system, if these technologies are employed and
convert them through phone
modem and transmit that signal down a ISDN phone line or comparable to at
least one computer 1412
that is running a G.P.S. program to monitor the Bin/ASCIIlNMEA earth
coordinates and time
coordinates data transmitted to 1411. Also as was described earlier the
coordinates could be monitored
from the car 1413 if the car was the phone data node or the car was able to
network with 1412 to receive
down loads for the data of earth coordinates. Ali easily accomplished as
described earlier .The second
figure down in upper left is the belly belt locator belt laid out flat. And
1401 is the lock buckle 1403
extra battery 1404 is the pager 1405 G.P.S. 1406 speaker or hailer or howler.
The following names the specific communication devices stored securely in the
stop and control
box or PFN that report or transfer data to remote monitoring and control
systems, however the
transmission of the data is two way transmissions for memory storage,
recording, of remote control
commands as well as all the on the vehicle sensing devices and or audio visual
data records. A two-way
pager is responsively connectable via a processor or a computer stored in a
secure manner and capable
of transmitting data to download it to at least one remote monitoring system.
A cellular phone
technology is responsively connectable via a processor and/or computer also or
either stored in a secure
manner and capable of transmitting data to download it to at least one remote
monitoring system. A
radio frequency transceiver is responsively connectable to a processor or
computer or stored in a secure
manner and capable of transmitting data to download it to at least one remote
monitoring system. A
physical connector interface port either on the stopbox or PFN or vehicle
interior or exterior is
responsively connectable to a processor or computer and or protected, shielded
and/or maintained in a
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secure manner and is capable of transferring and/or transmitting data to
download it to at least one
remote monitoring system. An Irda or any optical light data transmission port
is either on the stop and
control box or PFN or vehicle interior or exterior and is responsively
connectable to a processor or
computer and/or protected and/or maintained in a secure manner and is capable
of transmitting data to
download it to at least one remote monitoring system. A multi-tasking law
enforcement device (hand
held gun) that has, radar, and any of the above-mentioned communication
technologies, is capable,
through electronic security protocols covered in these related patents, of
"electronically handshake" with
the stop and control box PFN processor or computer and download to at least
one remote location (e.g.,
police cruiser) (also a function designed for the cruiser transmission
equipment}. A processor or
computer, as detailed within the applications, is responsively connectable to
memory and the above-
I S described communication devices in a secure manner that can process by
modem and or conversion
hardware, firmware or software algorithms a specific electronic signal in to
pre-programmed alpha-
numeric text or ASCII, etc. and/or can re-transmit the signal or converted
message over any other
communication device responsibly connectable to the processor or computer to
download the data either
converted or not converted as repeated data to at least one remote monitoring
system in real time or as
a stored data transferred in a data down load (used to take short range Rf
signals and connect them to
long range communication systems. A processor or computer, as detailed with in
the related application,
is responsively connectable to a Global Positioning System (GPS) and the
processor is also responsively
connectable to the above-described communication devices all in the stop and
control box PFN in a
secure manner and capable of transmitting the GPS coordinate data (NMEA)
protocol and or any other
locating device signals as either separate data or error correcting data for
the GPS to at least one remote.
The monitoring system (cellular systems are going to be much more accurate for
the location of the
transmission and GPS) can benefit from the combining of these technologies for
error correction of the
GPS signal through the ionosphere if DOD will permit this combination of the
two technologies. A
processor or computer is responsively connectable to a magnetic card swipe
device that can transmit via
the communication devices detailed herein to at least one remote monitoring
and or control system for
the purpose of billing debiting or crediting for the use of piece of equipment
that has a stop and control
box or PFN on it. A processor or computer is responsively connectable to audio
and video devices as
well as the communication system detailed earlier for the purpose to to guide
or control remotely a
vehicle with a secure stop and control box or PFN. A processor or computer
responsively connectable
to a memory to storage system to record a audio or video signal and data used
to control a vehicle
remotely. A processor or computer is responsively connectable to an audio or
video system or device
that is remotely controlled by at least one remote location and with the
vehicle running or not running,
occupied or not occupied, via the communication devices in the stop and
control box or PFN.
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A claim is made for any combination of wireless communication device
interfaced or integrated
with a processor or computer control or controller circuit for remote
controlling or remote switching
when protected in a secure manner and is considered a component of the secure
stop and control box or
PFN (e.g., Motorola's CreataLink, Lojack, etc.). A claim is made for any
combination of land phone
wired and modem interface that is responsively connectable to a processor and
or computer as an
integrated or separate device system when protected in a secure manner.
A stop and control box PFN also is a space to store valuables in a secure
manner of protecting
personal property. It is interfaced and/or not interfaced or used in part as a
physical storage with
specially provided compartments as a antitheft, anti-fire impact resistance
rough service proactive
containment for (e.g., personal computers, laptops, palmtops, organizers
personal communication
devices, pagers, cellphones, radio equipment, expensive stereo systems, hand
held GPS units, wallet,
money, important papers, expensive watches or jewelry, etc.).
A claim is made that this stop and control box PFN could be an add-on device
to retrofit older
cars or specially outfit cars, e.g., taxi cabs with a locating system magnetic
card swipe, a processor or
computer and the above-mentioned communication devices so that the cab driver
or limo driver can
confirm a credit card in real time and bill the card right from the cab as
well as store the data print the
data retrieve a script or electronic signature from the card carrier and ID
the card carrier through photo,
fingerprints or pupillary ID.
A further claim is made that the PFN stopbox and control be made part of the
vehicle in
manufacturing and house and provide a secure environment for the vehicle
processor or computer or any
of the control circuits deemed necessary to be incorporated in the PFN.
A claim is made for the stop and control box PFN to have specialized
compartments that hold
these items in a particular place to provide interface technology for these
devices in a plug-in, install
program and play modality.
A claim is made that the compartmentalization of the stop and control box PFN
has flexible
versatility to change and rearrange the compartments for personal or
commercial preference as to size
and placement.
A claim is made that the stop and control box PFN can be located any where in
the vehicle ,but
ideally place for easy access and use will be incorporated in most all
designs.
A claim is made for manual locking mechanisms for multiple doors or access
panels to the
compartments.
A claim is made for electrically activated locks and or automated open and
close and in and out
functions for the drawers and access panels.
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A claim is made to automatically activate those doors and panels in either
direction by inertia
sensors Sudden Impact Restraint Deployment Sensors or any distant sensing
device or systems or any
preprogrammed response from the processor or computer programming.
A report data management and memory storage network of the vehicle/machine
receives the
reports of this processed preprogrammed data from said operation sensors via
any secured and or
unsecured two way communication devices that are stored on the
vehicle/equipment.
A report management and storage system is comprised of and layered
geographically to be
operated commercially, privately, publicly, and or governmentally, which
provides mass data
management, memory storage and or data transfer capability of processed and
copied recorded data, and
has routing functions to comprise a machine messaging network (MMN) for any
purpose of monitoring
or analysis from the smallest operation to the largest level of control and
governance, and either operated
separately or as a part of an entire network for socio-economic and
environmental reasons including
monitoring, accounting, and/or any kind of monetary billing.
An off the vehicle/equipment report system is first comprised of personal,
commercial and
governmental owned and/or operated "communication interfaces" that provide
wireless communication
to land based phone nodes for computer networking via, RF signals, cellular
phone signals, satellite
communications, other land line based phone switching systems and or one and
two-way pager systems,
etc. to be referred to as "Gateways".
A "personal or private Gateway" as described in the first patent application
referenced can be
a privately owned and operated control system using a home phone number and
personal computer
system with the software to process the modem conditioned machine message
signal received from a stop
and control box or the primary focal node PFN on the vehicle or equipment.
This is for any monitoring
purpose regarding: equipment operational sensors, environmental sensors, on
board audio video
equipment, any identification systems, e.g., cardswipe, fingerprint ID
systems, papillary ID systems
operator physical monitoring devices, locating devices and programs It can be
for any remote control
or robotic functions to remotely, drive a vehicle, bill for use of a vehicle
or machine, remotely operate
any and all types of machinery, evaluate and diagnose malfunctions from the
PC, to remotely order
materials and service personnel to affect repairs, and quote the cost of
repairs remotely, to remotely
affect remote repairs electronically, to remotely shutdown equipment, etc.
The Gateway is for any networking with other computers or computer networks
that manage data
and store it, e.g., vehicle location, equipment technical assistance, personal
accounting for machine or
equipment use, e.g., tax credits, ect. Small businesses would use desktop
computers or PC gateways
outfitted with the appropriate accounting software for their vehicle and
equipment maintenance D.O.T.
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requirements and Driver requirements incorporated into their accounting
software spread sheets and
company operational management software.
The PC would, if desired, be able to directly dial out to the company
accounting firm or network
to the accounting department for bigger firms and download data in real time.
The PC would be able to
deliver government required data to the government nodes if desired, or, if
mandated due to, e.g.,
corporate bankruptcy or, e.g., if convicted for criminal negligence or unsafe
operations or if just
requested by the small business to receive government aid or support services.
This could be done in a
real time or near real time. If it is done for accounting purposes like
taxing, fines, penalties or for
crediting or giving credits, e.g., energy use, environmental improved waste
discharges or to warrant
providing aid or giving grants or to monitor loan provisions for monitoring
equipment for health and
safety concerns to the public. This is also applicable to larger commercial
businesses government and
organizations.
A "Gateway" phone and/or network node is also any of the vehicle/equipment
remote receiving
service or center for wireless communication and or land based lines that
receives PFN machine
messaging data as operational reports or requests for services.
A "Gateway" can analyze this data according to its preprogrammed software to
determine
appropriate service or services it is responsible to provide as a commercial
service, (e.g., equipment
mechanical diagnosis, dispatch personnel and locate repair provisions and
materials, call emergency
response personnel).
A "Gateway" also, according to its software, determines if it is suppose to
network with any
other computer systems or data base to report this data further or any portion
of this data for further
monitoring and storage or for billing purposes and/or regulation or legal
compliance monitoring for
either social economic and/or environmental impact.
A "Gateway" can be a local and/or toll free phone node to a specific
government agency or a
combined or multi-agency service node that can through its software route this
machine data or manage
and store it for local use and reference, regional and state use and
reference, national use and reference,
and international use and reference.
Also disclosed are billing or accountable tracking headers in any recorded
data and or reported
data either encrypted or not encrypted for any transcribed or converted text,
graphics or audio video data
as well as any Congressional mandated electronic security protocols deemed
necessary (i.e., any billing
or accrediting for PFN Data transferred to agencies, any billing or
accrediting for PFN data transferred
to commercial service providers, any billing or accrediting for PFN transfer
of data for sale to
commercial news agencies, and any monetary exchange for any reason completed
through a PFN for
billing and accrediting or any kind of accounting).
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S A "Gateway" can and should contain software and or the necessary personnel
to process and post
this machine data gathered in a Web page formate prescribed for a local public
Web account page on the
World Wide Web so that the public can monitor plan for and control their
society, economy and their
environment as well as compare and voice opinions on issues and data presented
as compared to
neighboring communities and the rest of the nation and world. This disclosure
is for this type of system
if operated publicly or if such a network is owned and or operated as a
private access system having
(Firewalls) or even it is publicly owned but is composed of guarded or
protected information or system
either partial or as a complete monitoring and control system.
Also disclosed are any machine message data from a PFN that is used to compile
data for any
public media or web page, either electronic, digital, analogue, text
conversions audio or video signals
or digital conversions; any interactive open forum webpage to voice opinion on
issues involving data
initially acquired from the Machine Messaging Network MMN of primary focal
nodes PFN's; any
webpage designed to organize issues for public integration and discourse on
geographic levels and/or
governmental structure, that also incorporates data initially acquired through
a Primary Focal Node PFN,
either related or unrelated to any issues , public news bulletins; any
commercial presentation of data
contained on any web page that is initially originated from the Machine
messaging network MMN or via
any PFN on any piece of equipment.
A state web account page would be maintained by the separate state agencies
also receiving,
processing, storing and managing this machine data for government, financial
planning, taxing and any
regulating purpose. This could be done either by commercial companies
contracted and licenced to
perform these services in a prescribed manner, or government staffed and
controlled and or a
combinations of both commercial and governmental services coordinated to
process and provide the
machine data for government, commercial and public review.
A national web account page will be constructed and serviced by all the
government agencies of a
nation, and those agencies will also provide all state and local web account
web pages with the most
current data that is pertinent to any specific geographic area that has been
compiled at a national and
world level. This will be accomplished with data prepared by the government
agencies and or
commercial contractors governed, licensed controlled and awarded contracts to
perform data
management and storage services. The technology to supply data to the web
account pages from the
local to the international level will vary with the types of mass management
and data storage
technologies employed today and the world wide web technology. This is
continually be altered and
improved. Some data will be delivered through client and server type programs
like "Gopher" but most
all World Wide Web (WWW) is supplanted with "Hypertext" presently.
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The Hypertext client programs that will be used presently are Netscape and or
Mosaic which are
browser technologies, already employed and widely utilized by most government
and commercial
agencies companies, and organizations on the web today.
Future super computing links for data transfer will be developed by The
National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and commercial software groups like
Netscape Communications
Corporation, etc. All these web account sites will be Network Information
Center (NIC) approved and
given specific domain names and registered with a (Gov nomenclature) if
governmentally sanctioned
and or regulated and stipulated strictly through government controls.
Any commercial attempt to provide this type of web account page for public or
private review
as described herein at any and all of these levels is also within the claims
of this invention, e.g., any small
industry monitoring and/or data communications network to any large national
news gathering and story
development data or financial market analysis for projecting futures for
industry and their safe practices
of doing business. One goal is to develop more tools for the "Netizens". Who,
by definition, are
supposed to have civic responsibility and participate in world communication
through the WWW (as
defined by Matisse Enzer's Glossary of Internet Terms). If this a future goal
it has to be designed into
our technology of today as communication technology and machine automation is
merging at a record
pace. The world population has doubled in the last thirty years and it is
judging free enterprise and
democracy as a way to live.
This requires the management of resources and the exploitation of them at the
very least to be
perceptive as fair and reasonable if any real peace and security in the world
is to have longevity.
Otherwise all the technology that is already in place could end up doing real
harm and in the most rapid
and humanly devastating ways, so that, no physical protection or monetary
security could ever be
designed to resist. It is important now to design technology to educate and
fairly fulfill the needs of the
worlds populous commercially and economically within a proper environmental
balance in the
exploitation of this planets resources so that people can act decent and be
social at the very least.
The invention's energy and environmental accountable claim for mobile devices
will be for the
stop and control or PFN box- all geographic area traveled or used will be
registered, recorded, and
reported to a monitoring "gateway" which will bill for highway use (collect
wear and tear tax for all non-
oil energy based vehicles). For electric cars with specific charging stations
this data will be downloaded
from a on board PFN while charging , this can even be done at home and can be
accomplished with land
line connections.
The time a geographic area's roadways are used will be reported and recorded
and billed and paid
for automatically and or on the spot with the card swipe system in the vehicle
(this ultimately removes
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the need for any commuter tax in close or mufti jurisdictional areas, i.e.,
MD, D.C., VA), just the exact
time a vehicle used the road and or was running in an area.
The type of fuel or energy used can be measured as a product and or timed as
operational
machine use. This will dictate the impact on the road as well as weight and
emissions ratings for
atmospheric impact as well as any other environmental sensors. And any such
system that monitors the
real time use of a vehicle and bills for that impact with these criterion they
fall within the scope of this
invention (i.e., the amount of fuel or energy used; type of waste product
produced, the amount of the
waste product produced, etc.).
Socio-economic Impact Functions (Spider Eyes)
Audio/video capture traffic impacts and record and report to at least one
remote monitoring
system for accident investigations and or any machine accidents in the highest
credible and data secure
manner. Insurance investigations decide claims and assign liability. Legal
proceedings determine
liability and accountability for government agencies to determine safety
parameters and make rules,
regulations and laws. Audio/video captures criminal incidents by activating
unattended vehicle PFN's
AV systems to a report criminal event by first waking up all machines from a
sleep cycle in a cell or page
area which is responsively connectable to a PFN processor or computer to give
eyes to law enforcement
through remote control in an emergency response situation or any other legal
reason.
Audio/video captures news events as witnessed by a machines AV systems and to
account for
the data reported to receive remuneration for the data (e.g., weather
conditions, traffic conditions).
Operational sensors are responsively connectable to a processor that is
receiving high way
conditions and speed limits, etc. and make the PFN an automated traffic
enforcement device for certain
driving behaviors such as speeding, reckless driving, drunken driving, road
rage, pensive or inefficient
driving.
The present invention is used to control machines/vehicles/equipment in a
remote control fashion
to equal equipment use for payment received and to account for that use,
analyze that use, identify that
equipment, identify an electronic serial number proprietary in these
applications and their use in a secure
manner, and to apply any accounting function with regards to any of these
processes all fall with in the
nature and scope of the invention.
The terms servers, providers and or Gateways throughout this document are
inclusive of any
commercial interest, governmental agencies, public or private organizations or
individuals that receive
data from a host machines (PFI~ via, pager,1tF transmitters, cell phone
technology, telecommunication
and or nodes, andlor any additional networks of these systems or any other
remote control capable
devices and performs any analysis, accounting, for any reason either for
monetary assessment purposes
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and/or information gathering and/or public service and/or to remotely control
uses or functions on a host
piece of equipment with respect or use of any accounting process as has been
described throughout any
and all of these applications (e.g., stop box, black box or billing box
functions) fall within the nature and
scope of the invention.
This also includes any hard wired land based phone systems that have modems
attached to a host
piece of equipment for the purpose of accounting and/or billing as to the
impact and uses the host piece
of equipment that might have a socio-economic function and/or environmental
impact, e.g., the latest
utility transmitters to measure electrical power use or gas, oil or water flow
when they are coupled to the
(MMNWWV~ which is part of the inventions control and monitoring system that
determines energy cost
for equipment use, i.e., lights, heaters, etc.
Any deliberate securement of these control circuits/devices lines, and report
back and/or record
keeping devices to restrict access for any of the above stated purposes fall
within the nature and scope
of this invention, even if it is for the use of diagnosing and machine
augmentation or remote control
when involving direct telephone line connections.
This is especially true when it is to secure any accounting function that can
control the uses of
a host piece of equipment for public and environmental safety and/or to apply
any monetary charge for
repairs, utilization and asses or record abuse as well as remotely control
those uses or augmented
functions and/or any services provided though the entire system as here in
described as the invention.
Any pager, cell phone and/or RF device employed by any provider/server to make
sure that
machine use is equal to payment received, and thereby determines authorized
use of equipment as per
any pre-agreed contract between any financially involved companies, e.g.,
service energy use, repairs,
loans, leasing, and the like, and equipment purchasers/leasers and/or
operators also are all within the
nature and scope of this invention.
The invention also includes any interface standard telephone or cell phone
modem device that
employees security features. This means any securement, concealment or
technical integrated circuitry
which makes it difl!icult to tamper with these systems also fall within the
nature, scope and purpose of
this invention, which is to insure accountable control and records over a
piece of equipment and to
receive moneys for that use and as a result of that function. The invention
will be able to give service
support to the public in an environmentally safe way, as well as a financial
way.
For the interactive highways and the smart cars to use GPS effectively in the
PFN it has to be
constant hot position readings and more accurate. It is possible to get
accuracy to the center meter level
with error correction technology (A second stable signal). The Department of
defense is very protective
of its error correction multi modulation technology for a GPS signal to keep
commercial accuracy only
to about 30 meters due to the interference of the ionosphere. The invention's
improved cell phone
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locating system mandated by congress can greatly aid GPS accuracy on land
based locating operations
in general as most cell towers follow major highway arteries and are fixed
locations on the earth. The
PFN technology may be advantageously used to direct any smart cars on
interactive highways or robotic
vehicle operations. There are also more sophisticated GPS systems that already
use a additional land
based signal for error correcting algorithms but none using this new cellular
system.
The many features and advantages of the invention are apparent from the
detailed specification,
and thus, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such features and
advantages of the invention
which fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention. Further, since
numerous modifications and
variations will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired
to limit the invention to the exact
construction and operation illustrated and described, and accordingly, all
suitable modifications and
equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention.
