Patent ID: 6172640
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: A01K,G01S,G08B

Abstract:
A method for locating or tracking an animal having attached thereto an object locator operable to communicate via a two-way paging system with a base station, comprising the steps of:securing a collar, having the object locator and a GPS antenna coupled thereto integrated with the collar, to the body of the animal;transmitting a request for location information from the base station over the paging system to a paging receiver integrated with the object locator;enabling a GPS receiver in the object locator to acquire location coordinates for a position of the animal from a GPS system and store the location coordinates in a memory in the object locator;disabling the GPS receiver after acquisition of the location coordinates;loading the location coordinates stored in the memory into a paging transmitter integrated with the object locator and transmitting the location coordinates via the paging system to the base station; andoutputting the location of the animal in human readable form at the base station.