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US 7484008
Apparatus for vehicle internetworks
Current assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
US7484008B1 — Patent Overview
Title: Apparatus for vehicle internetworks
Patent number: US7484008B1
Application number: US09/684,490
Inventors: David C. Gelvin; Lewis D. Girod; William J. Kaiser; Fredric Newberg; Gregory J. Pottie
Current assignee (as listed): Intellectual Ventures I LLC
Original assignee: Borgia Cummins LLC
Priority date: 1999-10-06
Filing date: 2000-10-04
Publication/grant date: 2009-01-27
Legal status (as listed): Expired – Lifetime; adjusted expiration 2025-04-21
Purpose and plain-language scope (from the supplied text): The patent is directed to an "apparatus for vehicle internetworks." The supplied excerpt's classification entries place it in networking protocols for proprietary or special-purpose environments — expressly including "sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks" (H04L67/12) — as well as threshold monitoring (H04L43/16), interprocessor communication over an interconnection network (G06F15/173), and sensor-bearing record carriers such as chips with sensor interfaces for environmental conditions including temperature history or pressure (G06K19/0717). The listed prior-art keywords are network, data, node, vehicle, and internetwork. Beyond these labels, the excerpt does not reproduce the abstract, specification, or claims, so the precise claimed apparatus cannot be described from the supplied text alone.
What the excerpt does not establish:
- The actual wording or scope of any claim, or the number of claims.
- The abstract, detailed description, or drawings (the image section is blank in the supplied text).
- What the invention specifically improves over, or any prior-art reference by name.
- Any legal conclusion about validity, enforceability, or claim coverage — the source itself notes legal status is an assumption, not a legal analysis.
- The full prosecution history or the complete list of cited references.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US7484008](/patent/US7484008)/en
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