Patents by Inventor Vincent Geake
Vincent Geake has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7742873Abstract: A navigation guidance system is provided which provides direction information from a remote server to a mobile user unit for guiding user to a desired destination. The navigation guidance system maintains time-related models for traffic speeds expected on road segments of a road database. By maintaining such time-related models, the system can more accurately provide the user with road guidance instructions to arrive at a chosen destination by a given time. The system can also provide more accurate route guidance information to a destination over different routes, even during rush hour or at off peak times. These time related models can be changed as a result of changing traffic patterns or as a result of an incident on a road segment. In a preferred embodiment, therefore, the system continuously monitors each calculated route and advise the users of alternative routes or of updated departure or arrival times as appropriate.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Yeoman Group PLCInventors: Hugh John Agnew, Vincent Geake, Simon Geoffery Hancock
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Publication number: 20060031007Abstract: A navigation guidance system is provided which provides direction information from a remote server to a mobile user unit for guiding user to a desired destination. The navigation guidance system maintains time-related models for traffic speeds expected on road segments of a road database. By maintaining such time-related models, the system can more accurately provide the user with road guidance instructions to arrive at a chosen destination by a given time. The system can also provide more accurate route guidance information to a destination over different routes, even during rush hour or at off peak times. These time related models can be changed as a result of changing traffic patterns or as a result of an incident on a road segment. In a preferred embodiment, therefore, the system continuously monitors each calculated route and advise the users of alternative routes or of updated departure or arrival times as appropriate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2005Publication date: February 9, 2006Inventors: Hugh Agnew, Vincent Geake, Simon Hancock
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Patent number: 6950745Abstract: A navigation guidance system (1) is provided which provides direction information from a remote server (11) to a mobile user unit (2) for guiding user to a desired destination. The navigation guidance system (1) maintains time-related models for traffic speeds expected on road segments of a road database. By maintaining such time-related models, the system can more accurately provide the user with road guidance instructions to arrive at a chosen destination by a given time. The system can also provide more accurate route guidance information to a destination over different routes, even during rush hour or at off peak times. These time related models can be changed as a result of changing traffic patterns or as a result of an incident on a road segment. In a preferred embodiment, therefore, the system continuously monitors each calculated route and advises the users of alternative routes or of updated departure or arrival times as appropriate.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Yeoman Group PLCInventors: Hugh John Agnew, Vincent Geake, Simon Geoffery Hancock
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Publication number: 20040024522Abstract: A navigation guidance system is provided which gives direction information from a remote server to a mobile user unit for guiding the user from their current location. The user unit may be a mobile telephone, PDA or the like. A navigation query is transmitted from the user to the remote server. A GPS receiver or the like is provided so that the current location of the mobile unit can also be determined and provided to the remote server. Based on the information received from the user, the server determines appropriate route guidance information and sends this back to the user. In a preferred form of the invention, the data is transmitted between the user unit and the remote server using DTMF tones which are encoded so that no two consecutive tones are identical.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Gregory George Walker, Simon Hancock, Vincent Geake
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Publication number: 20030187573Abstract: A navigation guidance system (1) is provided which provides direction information from a remote server (11) to a mobile user unit (2) for guiding user to a desired destination. The navigation guidance system (1) maintains time-related models for traffic speeds expected on road segments of a road database. By maintaining such time-related models, the system can more accurately provide the user with road guidance instructions to arrive at a chosen destination by a given time. The system can also provide more accurate route guidance information to a destination over different routes, even during rush hour or at off peak times. These time related models can be changed as a result of changing traffic patterns or as a result of an incident on a road segment. In a preferred embodiment, therefore, the system continuously monitors each calculated route and advises the users of alternative routes or of updated departure or arrival times as appropriate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Hugh John Agnew, Vincent Geake, Simon Geoffery Hancock
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Publication number: 20030158657Abstract: A navigation guidance system is provided which provides direction information form a remote server to a mobile user unit for guiding the user to a desired destination. The user unit may be a mobile telephone or PDA or the like. A query is input to the user unit either by text or by voice and is sent to the remote server. The mobile unit preferably includes a GPS receiver or the like so that the current location of the mobile telephone can also be transmitted to the remote server. Based on the information received from the user unit, the server determines the appropriate route guidance information and sends this back to the user unit. In a preferred form of the invention, the remote server continues to monitor the progress of the user unit in following the route guidance information and, where appropriate, sends updated route guidance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2003Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventors: Hugh John Agnew, Roger Wooley, Vincent Geake
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Patent number: 5206490Abstract: A method of bar code printing is disclosed. The bar code is printed directly onto packaging material associated with the product, and in that the ink used to produce the bar code is such that indicia constituting the bar code can be discriminated regardless of the background onto which the bar code is printed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1991Date of Patent: April 27, 1993Assignee: Esselte Meto International Produktions GmbHInventors: Robert M. Petigrew, Alan J. Harry, Paul R. Nailor, Fred Adelmann, Peter Franzen, Juergen Schoon, Vincent Geake