Apparatus and method for providing shipment information
AssigneeGtj Ventures, LLC
InventorRAYMOND ANTHONY JOAO
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Abstract
An apparatus, including a shipment conveyance device which is a shipping container, a pallet, or a piece of luggage; a global positioning device which determines a position or location of the shipment conveyance device; a processor which generates a message in response to an occurrence of an event or in response to a request for information regarding the shipment conveyance device which is automatically received by a receiver, wherein the message contains information regarding a shipment of the shipment conveyance device; and a transmitter. The transmitter transmits the message to a communication device associated with an owner of the shipment conveyance device or an individual authorized to receive the message.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a shipment conveyance device, wherein the shipment conveyance device is a shipping container, a pallet, or a piece of luggage;
- a global positioning device, wherein the global positioning device determines a position or location of the shipment conveyance device;
- a processor, wherein the processor generates a message in response to an occurrence of an event or in response to a request for information regarding the shipment conveyance device which is automatically received by a receiver, wherein the message contains information regarding a shipment of the shipment conveyance device;
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- a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the message to a communication device associated with an owner of the shipment conveyance device or an individual authorized to receive the message.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a piece of luggage;
- a global positioning device, wherein the global positioning device determines a position or location of the piece of luggage;
- a processor, wherein the processor processes information regarding the piece of luggage in response to an occurrence of an event or in response to a request for information regarding the piece of luggage which is automatically received by a receiver, and further wherein the processor generates a message in response to the occurrence of the event or in response to the request for information regarding the piece of luggage;
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- a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the message to a communication device associated with an owner of the piece of luggage or an individual authorized to receive the message, wherein the message contains information regarding the piece of luggage.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a shipping container;
- a global positioning device, wherein the global positioning device is located in, on, or at, the shipping container, and further wherein the global positioning device determines a position or location of the shipping container;
- a processor, wherein the processor processes information regarding the shipping container in response to an occurrence of an event or in response to a request for information regarding the shipping container which is automatically received by a receiver, wherein the processor generates a message containing information regarding a shipment of the shipping container;
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- a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the message to a communication device associated with an owner of the shipping container or an individual authorized to receive the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.