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Posted by Nick Kew on August 11, 2004, 1:54 pm
Please log in for more thread options coastalrocket@yahoo.co.uk (Andy B) writes:
>> What's the date on it? Would 1988 be prior art?
>
> 1988 would be. yes. what were you thinking of?
Specifically, a vehicle tracking system, one component of which was real-
time displays of vehicle positions superimposed on a digital map. 1998 is
IIRC the year that went live for paying Clients. Ongoing development work
included hooking it up to a database to relate vehicle positions to
places they might wish to travel (fleet management, rapid response)
or avoid (eg traffic holdups). Displays in those days were in a control
room, as opposed to being delivered by Internet to the office or home.
> PCT Filed: August 16, 1996
Well around that time was when everyone-and-his-dog in the remote sensing
business (including me) was developing web-based systems for that kind of
thing.
> The European patent EP0845124B, entitled "Computer System for
> Identifying Local Resources and Method Therefor," relates to
> Multimap.com's technology for displaying both an image of a map and
> information data relating to at least one place of interest on the map
> to an end user.
.... and one would doubtless have to be a lawyer to argue which technologies
might infringe it, or constitute prior art. It was your first post that
seemed to describe more-or-less any GIS.
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Nick Kew
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