Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/625mcf/telematics) has announced the addition of the "Telematics: Technology, Business Opportunity and Patent Analysis" report to their offering.

Coupled with the ever-evolving ICT and electronic control system technologies, telematics that enable the integration of computing, communications, control, and transport technologies has witnessed a bloom over the years.

This report provides an overview of telematics development and its market outlook; examines strategic and patent deployment of established players in the industry such as Bosch, Enso, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Ford, General Electric, Google and Apple. Also included are R&D intensity ranking of 30 major assignees and the analysis of the 10 most important telematics patents.

List of topics:

- Overview of the telematics technology which covers mainly smartway and smartcar applications, touching on 27 key technology fields for use in vehicle tracking, trailer tracking, fleet management, satellite navigation, wireless vehicle safety communications, and vehicle insurance

- Major technology fields and sectors of 7,069 telematics-related patents identified using data mining technique; also included are top 30 assignees' R&D intensity and their patent deployment analysis

- A brief examination of deployment strategies of major assignees from the United States, Japan, Europe, Korea, and Taiwan

Key Topics Covered:

1. Development of Telematics Technology

1.1 Vehicle Tracking

1.2 Trailer Tracking

1.3 Fleet Management

1.4 Satellite Navigation

1.5 Wireless Vehicle Safety Communications

1.6 Vehicle Insurance

2. Patent Mining

2.1 Patent Search

2.1.1 Selecting a Patent Database

2.1.2 Identifying Search Keywords

2.1.3 Data Selection

2.1.4 Data Analysis

2.2 Analysis of Trends

2.2.1 Text Mining

2.2.2 Data Mining

2.2.3 Relative R&D Intensity

2.2.4 Results of Patent Index Analysis

3. Deployment Strategies of Major Assignees

3.1 US Companies

3.2 European Companies

3.3 Japanese and Korean Companies

3.4 Taiwanese Companies

Companies Mentioned

- AT&T

- American Vehicular Sciences

- Apple

- Boschm

- Broadcom

- Caterpillar INC.

- Continental Automotive

- Deere & Company

- Denso

- Exon Science

- Flextronics AP

- Ford

- General Electric Company

- General Motors

- Google

- HTI IP

- Hitachi

- Honda

- IBM

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- ITRI

- LG

- M2M Solution

- Magna Electronics

- Microsoft

- Navteq

- Omega Patents

- Samsung

- The Boeing Company

- Toyota

- Trimble Navigation

- United Parcel Service of America

- Vengte Software AG

- Voicebox Technologies Corporation

- Wilmington Trust FSB

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