Vincil C Dean

6609064, Aug 19, 2003

Aug 31, 1999

09/386756

Vincil C. Dean - Louisville CO

Qwest Communications Intl, Inc. - Denver CO

G06G 778

701213, 34235706

A system provides the ability to collect and analyze data generated by a global positioning system to assist in monitoring and supervising a user of a vehicle. The system includes a GPS unit incorporated into a vehicle for periodically generating and recording information with regard to the position and velocity of the vehicle. The recorded information is periodically transferred to a remotely located computer via a wireless communications system, within which a grouping program is implemented. The grouping program is used to identify periods where the vehicle is in a stationary mode and periods where the vehicle is in a moving mode traveling from one location to another, based on the information provided by the GPS unit. The system generates a summary in map or report format. The results of the grouping program may be presented on map images representing the area within which the vehicle traveled.

62329154, May 15, 2001

Aug 31, 1999

9/386757

Vincil C. Dean - Louisville CO
Djangir A. Babayev - Boulder CO

Qwest Communications International Inc. - Denver CO

G01S 502
G01S 302
H04B 7185

34235707

A fleet monitoring system provides the ability to collect location information for a number of different fleet vehicles and identify clusters of activities based on frequency of activities occurring within a defined distance from each other. The activities being clusters may be associated with location with locations where fleet vehicles are parked after they have reached their destinations. To monitor a fleet, vehicles in the fleet are equipped with a GPS unit to record location information. The location information is later analyzed at a central location to identify clusters of stop locations based on latitude and longitude information reported by the GPS units in the vehicles. The clustering program is used to detect locations frequently visited by the field representatives.

56151217, Mar 25, 1997

Jan 31, 1995

8/381657

Djangir A. Babayev - Boulder CO
Richard M. Berger - Boulder CO
Vincil C. Dean - Edgewater CO
Ronald L. Hansen - Louisville CO
Scott H. Parrish - Boulder CO

U S West Technologies, Inc. - Boulder CO

G06F 1900
G06F 1760

395209

A scheduling system is disclosed for scheduling tasks for fulfilling a series of service requests. When each service request is received, a determination is made as to the amount of resources a task requires to provide the requested service. Further, a preferred time within which to perform the task is obtained from the requestor of the service request. For each service request, data for the estimated amount of resources and the preferred time are supplied, on a first-come-first-serve basis, to a scheduling component for solving a combinatorial optimization model which efficiently allocates a predetermined amount of resources for each time slot in a scheduling period by rearranging tasks for service requests previously received. The scheduling component provides for a service requestor, without regard to subsequently received service requests, a service time in which to perform the task for the requested service substantially immediately after the service request is made. Whenever possible, the service time coincides with the preferred time.