发明名称 Methods, apparatus and systems for notifying excavators and other entities of the status of in-progress underground facility locate and marking operations
摘要 Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing information regarding a locate and/or marking operation to identify a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. At least one notification indicating a status of the locate and/or marking operation is electronically transmitted and/or stored so as to inform at least one party associated with requesting the operation (a "requesting party," e.g., an excavator, a property owner, a facility owner, a regulatory authority, a damage investigator, etc.) of the status of the operation. In one aspect, a requesting party may designate a preferred format, content, and/or method of receiving notifications regarding the locate and/or marking operation. In another aspect, a computer-generated GUI is provided to facilitate submission of requests, generation of "virtual white line" images to indicate one or more dig areas on a digital image of a work site, and/or selection of notifications and preferences for same. In yet another aspect, a requesting party may provide an acknowledgement of receipt (e.g., a "return receipt") for one or more received notifications.
申请公布号 US8468206(B2) 申请公布日期 2013.06.18
申请号 US20100824612 申请日期 2010.06.28
申请人 NIELSEN STEVEN;CHAMBERS CURTIS;FARR JEFFREY;CERTUSVIEW TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 发明人 NIELSEN STEVEN;CHAMBERS CURTIS;FARR JEFFREY
分类号 G06F15/16 主分类号 G06F15/16
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