US Patent No: 7,468,659
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Method of configuring a tracking device
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Dec 23, 2008
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Sep 5, 2006
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11/469,979
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Abstract
A method of configuring a tracking device including accessing a tracking device management system comprising a tracking system server and a database with a terminal through a management system communication interface. A desired configuration option is selected from a plurality of configuration options provided by the tracking system server and the tracking device configuration settings are requested from the tracking system server for the desired configuration option. The configuration settings are transmitted from the database to the terminal for display. Further, the configuration settings are modified at the terminal to produce modified configuration settings and transmitted to the tracking device management system through the management system communication interface. A command is then transmitted from the tracking device management system to the tracking device through a tracking device communication link to configure the tracking device to reflect the modified configuration settings.
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