Patent ID: 11926353
Assignee: CATTRON NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 12:
13. The operator control unit of claim 1, wherein:
the wireless communication device is configured to send the location data to the machine control unit only after command data messages have remained stable for a time period sufficient for the machine control unit to receive the command data, and/or the wireless communication device is configured to continue transmitting the command data to the machine control unit until an acknowledgement is received from the machine control unit indicating the last command data message was received, and to transition to transmitting the location data to the machine control unit only after the acknowledgement is received from the machine control unit indicating the last command data message was received; and
the location data includes absolute positional data for the geographical location of the operator control unit; and
the location data further includes relative positional data for the geographical location of the operator control unit, the relative positional data is indicative of a change in geographical position of the operator control unit relative to a prior absolute positional data message, and the relative positional data includes less bytes of data than the absolute positional data, whereby transmission of the relative positional data requires less bandwidth, less time, and fewer packet as compared to transmission of the absolute positional data; and
the wireless communication device is configured to break up the location data into multiple RF packets to be reassembled by the machine control unit.