Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Vehicle diagnosis or maintenance indication
Reexamination Certificate
2004-09-30
2009-02-03
Jeanglaud, Gertrude Arthur (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Vehicle diagnosis or maintenance indication
C701S029000, C701S036000, C701S030000, C340S438000, C340S426190
Reexamination Certificate
active
07487019
ABSTRACT:
Methods and systems for intelligent vehicle fleets are disclosed. An intelligent vehicle may function as a mobile office reducing the need for users to perform work functions in a brick-and-mortar building. Methods or systems consistent with the invention may manage vehicle fleets, or provide intelligent vehicle subsystems, or acquire address information using an intelligent vehicle. A method to manage vehicle fleets may include receiving at a remote computer communicated maintenance data from information collection devices installed in the intelligent vehicle.
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Corey William Wayne
Estes Jacquelynn
Arthur Jeanglaud Gertrude
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP
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