Class 455: Telecommunications This is the generic class for modulated carrier wave communications not elsewhere classifiable.Subclass 11.1: Portable or mobile repeater Subclass 404.2: Location monitoring Subclass 412.2: Having message notification Subclass 414.1: Special service Subclass 417: Call diversion Subclass 436: Handoff Subclass 439: Handoff initiated by another source (e.g., target, user initiated, mobile switching center (MSC), or mobile telephone switching office (MTSO), etc.) Subclass 456.1: Location monitoring Subclass 456.2: Based on request signal Subclass 456.3: Position based personal service Subclass 456.5: At system equipment (i.e., base station) Subclass 456.6: At remote station (i.e., mobile station) Subclass 457: Location display Subclass 461: Including personal numbering system (i.e., intelligent network for subscriber tracking or follow-me subscriber feature) Subclass 521: Emergency dispatch or response
Class 370: Multiplex Communications This is the generic class for multiplexing or duplexing systems, methods, or apparatus.Subclass 312: Message addressed to multiple destinations Subclass 313: Portable address responsive receiver Subclass 338: Contiguous regions interconnected by a local area network Subclass 345: Combining or distributing information via time channels Subclass 347: Multiple access (e.g., TDMA)
Class 342: Communications: Directive Radio Wave Systems And Devices (E.G., Radar, Radio Navigation) Systems and processes for transmission or reception of radio wave energy for obtaining or utilizing information (using radio wave transmitters or receivers), as to an object, or as to the directional characteristics of the radio wave energy, per se. his class includes radar systems wherein radio wave energy from a transmitter is reflected or otherwise returned from an object to a receiver which may be at the same location as the transmitter; includes subsystems, components, and related processes which are limited to use in connection with the above. This class is limited to electromagnetic radio frequency waves in the radiation field. Subclass 357.07: Tracking or monitoring (i.e., lost or stolen vehicles) Subclass 357.08: Determining relative position (e.g., distance or direction) Subclass 357.09: With transmission of location-indicative information to or from a remote station Subclass 357.1: Combined with telecommunication Subclass 357.14: Combined with secondary navigation system (i.e., LORAN, gyroscope, inertial, dead reckoning, etc.)
Class 709: Electrical Computers And Digital Processing Systems: Multicomputer Data Transferring This class provides for an electrical computer or digital data processing system or corresponding data processing method including apparatus or steps for transferring data or instruction information between a plurality of computers wherein the computers employ the data or instructions before or after transferring and the employing affects said transfer of data or instruction information. The class includes - process or apparatus for transferring data among a plurality of spatially distributed (i.e., situated, at plural locations) computers or digital data processing systems via one or more communications media (e.g., computer networks).Subclass 203: Compression/decompression Subclass 206: Unit conversion
Class 714: Error Detection/Correction And Fault Detection/Recovery This class provides for process or apparatus for detecting and correcting errors in electrical pulse or pulse coded data; it also provides for process or apparatus for detecting and recovering from faults in electrical computers and digital data processing systems, as well as logic level based systems.Subclass 48: Error detection or notification
Class 705: Data Processing:Financial, Business Practice, Management, Or Cost/Price Determination This is the generic class for apparatus and corresponding methods for performing data processing operations, in which there is a significant change in the data or for performing calculation operations wherein the apparatus or method is uniquely designed for or utilized in the practice, administration, or management of an enterprise, or in the processing of financial data. It also provides for apparatus and corresponding methods for performing data processing or calculating operations in which a charge for goods or services is determined.Subclass 1: AUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT Subclass 43: Including Automatic Teller Machine (i.e., ATM)
Class 340: Communications: Electrical Communications - the handling of information or intelligence, restricted to the conveying of said information or intelligence between geographically spaced points. Information or intelligence is defined as being, matter which is handled by signaling systems or signaling devices (such as telegraph systems) or by that portion of nonsignaling systems or nonsignaling devices (such as power supply systems) which is designated in the arts as having a control function (such as the supervisory circuits which control the circuit breakers of an electric power network). Handling, as used above, is defined as being the active coaction between the tangible communication system or device and the intangible information or intelligence, and such coaction may assume various forms, such as transmission, storage, exhibiting, etc.Subclass 425.5: LAND VEHICLE ALARMS OR INDICATORS Subclass 539.13: Tracking location (e.g., GPS, etc.) Subclass 539.2: Map Subclass 573.1: Human or animal Subclass 686.1: Position responsive Subclass 905: Highway information (e.g., weather, speed limits, etc.) Subclass 990: With map display Subclass 995.1: Map display
Class 701: Data Processing:Vehicles, Navigation, And Relative Location This class provides for electrical computers, digital data processing systems, and data processing processes for transferring data between computers or processes wherein the computers or processes employ the data before or after transferring and the employing affects the transfer of data therebetween. This class is for electricalapparatus and corresponding methods for performing data processing operations in which there is a significant change in the data or for performing calculation operations wherein the electrical data processing system or calculating computer functions to indicate a condition of a vehicle, to regulate the movement of a vehicle, to monitor the operation of a vehicle, or to solve a diagnostic problem with the vehicle. It also provides electrical apparatus and corresponding methods wherein the electrical data processing system or calculating computer function to determine the course, position, or distance traveled. It further provides electrical apparatus and corresponding methods wherein the electrical data processing system or calculating computer functions to determine the relative location of an object (e.g., person or vehicle) and may include communication of the determined relative location to a remote location. In this class there are three main divisions: 1. vehicle control, guidance, operation or indication; 2. navigation; 3. relative locationSubclass 200: NAVIGATION Subclass 204: Determination of E.T.A. Subclass 208: For use in a map data base system Subclass 209: Including route searching or determining device Subclass 211: Having audio or visual route guidance Subclass 213: Using Global Positioning System (GPS) Subclass 214: Means to improve accuracy of position or location Subclass 216: Having an self-contained position computing means (e.g., dead reckoning) Subclass 217: Using dead-reckoning apparatus Subclass 25: Storage or planning of route information Subclass 26: Modification or correction of route information
Class 707: Data Processing:Database And File Management Or Data Structures This is the generic class for data processing apparatus and corresponding methods for the retrieval of data stored in a database or as computer files. It provides for data processing means or steps for generic data, file and directory upkeeping, file naming, and file and database maintenance including integrity consideration, recovery, and versioning. There are three main divisions: 1. database and file accessing; 2. database schema and data structure; 3. file and database maintenance.Subclass 10: Distributed or remote access Subclass 102: Generating database or data structure (e.g., via user interface) Subclass 103R: Object-oriented database structure Subclass E17.005: Interfaces; database management systems; updating (EPO)
Class 379: Telephonic Communications (1) Systems, processes and instruments for the two-way electrical transmission of intelligible audio information having arbitrary content over a link including an electrical conductor, between spaced apart locations, so as to enable conversation therebetween, and intended for the private use of a listener or a group of listeners. The term "intelligible" used above is intended to include the capability for transmission of speech or the like (e.g., music), rather than restriction to a specified audible signal, such as a bell or buzzer. (2) Switching, signalling or signal transmission peculiar to, or specified as for a telephone or a telephone system, except for multiplex communications as indicated in Lines With Other Classes.Subclass 204.01: Subscriber control Subclass 211.01: Call diversion (e.g., call capture) Subclass 211.02: Call forwarding Subclass 212.01: Call transfer |