System for accurately determining the mileage traveled by a vehicle within a state without human intervention

Claim 1

A system for reporting the mileage that a vehicle travels within a state boundary comprising: a positioning system for generating present position information including latitude and longitude information of said vehicle; an odometer for providing a signal representative of the mileage said vehicle has traveled since some predetermined event; a memory device containing geographic information of the latitudes and longitudes of the boundaries of numerous states; a recording device for receiving and recording information; and, a processor, coupled with said positioning system, said odometer, said memory and said recording device for comparing the present position information for said vehicle with the geographic information regarding latitudes and longitudes of state boundaries and recording a signal representative of the mileage the vehicle has traveled if the present position information represents that the vehicle has traveled across a state boundary, the recording of the signal representative of the vehicle mileage is done on the recording device.

Claim 2

A system for reporting the mileage that a vehicle travels within a state boundary comprising: a positioning system for generating present position information including latitude and longitude information of said vehicle; an odometer for providing a signal representative of the mileage said vehicle has traveled since some predetermined event; a memory device containing geographic information of the latitudes and longitudes of the boundaries of numerous states; a recording device for receiving and recording information; and, a processor, coupled with said positioning system, said odometer, said memory and said recording device for comparing the present position information for said vehicle with the geographic information regarding latitudes and longitudes of state boundaries and recording a signal representative of the mileage the vehicle has traveled if the present position information represents that the vehicle has traveled across a state boundary, the recording of the signal representative of the vehicle mileage is done on the recording device.

Claim 8

A method of determining the mileage driven within a state by a vehicle comprising the steps of: determining geographical coordinates representing the present position of said vehicle; comparing the geographical coordinates representative of the present position of the vehicle with stored boundary coordinates representing the boundaries of states; determining what state the vehicle is in; comparing the current state the vehicle is in with a previous state determination; repeating the above steps when the vehicle is in the same state and recording the vehicle present location, odometer mileage, time, and date in a nonvolitale memory when the vehicle is in a different state; and, downloading the recorded information to an end user.

Claim 9

A method of determining the mileage driven within a state by a vehicle comprising the steps of: determining geographical coordinates representing the present position of said vehicle; comparing the geographical coordinates representative of the present position of the vehicle with stored boundary coordinates representing the boundaries of states; determining what state the vehicle is in; comparing the current state the vehicle is in with a previous state determination; repeating the above steps when the vehicle is in the same state and recording the vehicle present location, odometer mileage, time, and date in a nonvolitale memory when the vehicle is in a different state; and, downloading the recorded information to an end user.

Claim 10

A system for monitoring, recording and reporting the mileage driven by a state comprising; a global positioning system receiver for receiving signals from a plurality of global positioning systems satellites, in earth orbit, and generating an electronic signal representative of the present position of the vehicle; a read only memory having stored therein geographical information relating to the boundaries of the plurality of states; a processor coupled to said GPS receiver and said read only memory for comparing the present position of the vehicle with the stored boundary information and further determining the state the vehicle is presently in and further determining if the vehicle has entered a different state; an odometer which generates an electrical signal representative of the mileage the vehicle has traveled since some predetermined event; and, said processor for recording the present position, the odometer mileage, and the current time and date when said vehicle crosses a state boundary.

Claim 11

A system for monitoring, recording and reporting the mileage driven by a state comprising; a global positioning system receiver for receiving signals from a plurality of global positioning systems satellites, in earth orbit, and generating an electronic signal representative of the present position of the vehicle; a read only memory having stored therein geographical information relating to the boundaries of the plurality of states; a processor coupled to said GPS receiver and said read only memory for comparing the present position of the vehicle with the stored boundary information and further determining the state the vehicle is presently in and further determining if the vehicle has entered a different state; an odometer which generates an electrical signal representative of the mileage the vehicle has traveled since some predetermined event; and, said processor for recording the present position, the odometer mileage, and the current time and date when said vehicle crosses a state boundary.