Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing an enhanced positive response in underground facility locate and marking operations
- Patent Title (中): 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
-
Application No.: US12915516Application Date: 2010-10-29
-
Publication No.: US08572193B2Publication Date: 2013-10-29
- Inventor: Steven Nielsen , Curtis Chambers , Jeffrey Farr
- Applicant: Steven Nielsen , Curtis Chambers , Jeffrey Farr
- Applicant Address: US FL Palm Beach Gardens
- Assignee: CertusView Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: CertusView Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Palm Beach Gardens
- Priority: CA2690239 20100209
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16

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.
Public/Granted literature
Information query