WO2002039643A2 - Mobile tracking device for transportation industry - Google Patents
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- WO2002039643A2 WO2002039643A2 PCT/US2001/043028 US0143028W WO0239643A2 WO 2002039643 A2 WO2002039643 A2 WO 2002039643A2 US 0143028 W US0143028 W US 0143028W WO 0239643 A2 WO0239643 A2 WO 0239643A2
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- G—PHYSICS
- G08—SIGNALLING
- G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
- G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
- G08G1/20—Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M2203/00—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
- H04M2203/10—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges related to the purpose or context of the telephonic communication
- H04M2203/1008—Calls without connection establishment for implicit information transfer or as a service trigger
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
- H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
- H04M3/42348—Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target
- H04M3/42357—Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
- H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
- H04W4/16—Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
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- This invention relates to a freight management system for tracking the
- GPS Global Positioning System
- transmitting information is most usually a mobile telephone and is sometimes a radio
- the GPS receiver determines the precise location of the vehicle from
- This location back to a central reporting station.
- This GPS and back-link system provides
- the visited location system then approves or disapproves user
- Gerasenko et.al., IEEE Computer, Volume 34, Number 10, October 2001, pp.108-110.
- invention provides a tracking apparatus having a callback unit programmed to telephone a
- the present system includes a computer system responsive to the unanswered calls from the callback unit, the computer system having call-
- unanswered-call information can be proprietary to a specific telephone provider, or can be
- tracking including the steps of calling a central base station from a callback unit attached to
- a mobile device programming the duration of the telephone call to be sufficient to convey
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a freight tracking system constructed in accordance with
- FIG. 2 shows in greater detail the construction of the mobile tracking unit of Fig. 1;
- Fig. 3 shows in greater detail some of the equipment located in die freight
- Fig. 4 shows an independent telephone company implemented witiiin the present
- Fig. 5 shows application software integrated witiiin a computer system
- Fig. 6 shows a mobile telephone receiver incorporated within a tracking unit
- Fig. 7 shows the user interface for tracking and tracing a shipment
- Fig. 8 shows the user interface for checking the status of a shipment
- Fig. 9 shows the user interface for viewing the details of a shipment.
- the present invention can be used for locating any type of mobile device that
- the present invention provides a less
- the system of the present invention includes a mobile telephone transmitter
- a caller reception unit detects the calling number and its
- This computer located witiiin d e central reporting station. This computer
- a database tiiat contains visited base station location information for the region in
- the mobile telephone unit rather than
- periodically sending die information also contains a mobile receiver that receives (also
- the call is then placed by the mobile transmitter and processed in d e same manner as
- a small, inexpensive mobile tracking unit 10 is located in
- control unit 10 includes a control unit 11 that controls a mobile cellular telephone transmitter 12.
- Control unit 11 is programmed to cause the mobile telephone transmitter 12 to
- the mobile cellular telephone transmitter 12 may be caused to call die
- the mobile phone call 84 is a short message 84 to the central reporting station 50 periodically; e.g. once an hour.
- the mobile phone call 84 is a short message 84 to the central reporting station 50 periodically; e.g. once an hour.
- die mobile tracking unit 10 can be received by a cellular telephone system
- the landline telephone system 14 routes the call to one of
- the equipment includes a virtual telephone 16 tiiat represents the telephone number to
- a computer 18 which stores tiiis information along with the date and time of its
- the mobile tracking unit 10 and the caller reception unit 17 are programmed to
- tiie calling telephone number which is used to identify the particular
- this additional information might be the
- This visited location tower identification code or area code and exchange code information is automatically included as part of the mobile caller identification information 52 stored by
- tiiis information as well as a date and timestamp is packaged witiiin the well-
- database 19 contains die geographical location
- database 19 contains a listing of the geographical locations of all the different
- Computer system 18 contains a link to a telephone
- An alternative method for obtaining call information is to form a new or
- a customer is assigned
- application software 54 works with
- a customer 21 can log onto the tracking company's Internet website 60
- this process may be automated so that
- location reports are automatically and periodically sent, either by e-mail, telephone, fax, or
- customer 21 other suitable means of communication, to the customer 21.
- customer 21 other suitable means of communication
- VRU may be used to allow callers to query the time and location data without d e
- a freight tracking system in accordance with the present invention can be any freight tracking system in accordance with the present invention.
- the different mobile units can
- additional telephone lines 92 arranged in one or more hunt groups can be provided at die
- central reporting station 50 and connected to computer system 18 for handling a greater
- die central reporting stations 50 are merged into an independent telephone
- Fig. 6 illustrates how the mobile tracking unit 10
- a mobile telephone receiver 66 for receiving a telephone call from die freight
- die control unit 11 detects die occurrence of this call and die calling telephone
- the application software 54 can
- mobile unit 10 may call the exchange 15
- application software 54 can call all mobile units 10 which are
- Software 54 accomplishes this by querying database 19 to determine d e current location of
- a hazardous cargo transport may not be allowed to go
- the software 54 can then
- the same query can be adjusted to search for shipments rather than trucks.
- the software 54 has a user interface 70 being divided into
- FIG. 7 shows a brief summary of currently
- TRACING panel caused additional tracking and tracing information to be displayed in die
- the status of booking 422162 can be obtained by clicking the buttons
- a link 108 to a mapping utility provides a convenient
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US10/399,280 US6937855B2 (en) | 2000-08-13 | 2001-11-09 | Mobile tracking device for transportation industry |
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US8340630B1 (en) | 2011-06-02 | 2012-12-25 | Trueposition, Inc. | Remotely activatable locator with backchannel |
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EP1467295A1 (en) * | 2003-04-08 | 2004-10-13 | van Brummen, John | Communication system for a logistic chain |
GB2459816B (en) * | 2007-02-12 | 2011-06-29 | Jjck Llc | Remotely activatable locator system and method |
US8005456B2 (en) | 2007-02-12 | 2011-08-23 | Jjck, Llc | Remotely activatable locator with voice/data relay |
US8180319B2 (en) | 2007-02-12 | 2012-05-15 | Trueposition, Inc. | Remotely activatable locator system and method |
US8208892B2 (en) | 2007-02-12 | 2012-06-26 | Trueposition, Inc. | Remotely activatable locator system and method using a wireless location system |
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US8340630B1 (en) | 2011-06-02 | 2012-12-25 | Trueposition, Inc. | Remotely activatable locator with backchannel |
GB2504650A (en) * | 2012-05-14 | 2014-02-12 | Care Monitoring 2000 Ltd | Monitoring incoming telephone calls to identify the location of a caller / person being visited by the caller corresponding to the detected called number |
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