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US08572193B2 Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing an enhanced positive response in underground facility locate and marking operations 有权
在地下设施中提供增强的积极响应的方法,设备和系统定位和标记操作

Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing an enhanced positive response in underground facility locate and marking operations
Abstract:
A positive response notification to provide information regarding locate and/or marking operations for underground facilities may include time-stamp information to provide proof of a time at which the locate and/or marking operation was completed by a locate technician, and/or place-stamp information to provide proof of a presence of the locate technician at or near a work site. An electronic manifest image and/or a virtual white line image similarly may be included in a positive response notification. In one example, such images may be bundled together based on respective descriptor files (or descriptor metadata) that associates the corresponding images with a locate request ticket for the operation. In another example, a positive response notification may include environmental information regarding one or more environmental conditions present at or near the work site during the locate and/or marking operation.
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