Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading
Patent
1995-06-06
1997-11-18
Zimmerman, Brian
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With meter reading
370329, 34082544, H04Q 100
Patent
active
056892454
ABSTRACT:
An electronic device for use as a communications terminal including means for determining a location of the electronic device, means for storing that location in the electronic device, means for receiving a wide-area broadcast, and means for executing location-specific instructions contained within the wide-area broadcast, responsive to the stored location. The invention further comprises a method for delivering a data channel signal having a plurality of location-dependent instructions, from a transmitter to a plurality of receiving units. The method comprises the step of transmitting the data channel signal to the plurality of receiving units. Once received by a particular receiving unit, the particular receiving unit identifies and executes location-dependent instructions within the data channel signal which correlate with the location of the particular receiving unit as stored in that receiving unit. The location of the particular receiving unit may be determined internal or external to the particular receiving unit and may be transmitted to the particular receiving unit as part of the data channel signal.
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Harper Theodore R.
Noreen Gary
Renshaw Ken
Radio Satellite Corporation
Zimmerman Brian
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