Machine or group of machines for monitoring location of a vehicle or freight carried by a vehicle
AssigneeMacroPoint, LLC
InventorBennett H. Adelson
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Abstract
A machine or group of machines for monitoring location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle includes a communications interface configured to communicate electronic signals including a location request signal including data representing a request for information regarding the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle, and a correlation logic in the machine or group of machines configured to correlate, by a CPU, the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle to a communications device.
Claims16
A machine or group of machines for monitoring location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle, comprising:
- a consent logic configured to determine whether consent was given to transmit location information of a communications device;
- a correlation logic configured to correlate, by a CPU, the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle with the location information of the communications device based at least in part on a correlation between the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle and the communications device;
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- a communications interface configured to communicate electronic signals including:
- a location request signal including data representing a request for information regarding the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle,
- a location information request signal transmitted to a location information provider corresponding to a party or device other than the communications device including data representing a request for location information of the communications device,
- a location information signal received from the location information provider including data representing the location information of the communications device, and
- a location signal including data representing the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle to cause representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle by a remote device.
A machine or group of machines for monitoring location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle, the machine or group of machines comprising:
- a communications interface configured to communicate electronic signals including a location request signal including data representing a request for information regarding the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle;
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- a correlation logic in the machine or group of machines configured to correlate, by a CPU, the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle to a communications device, wherein
- the communications interface is further configured to communicate:
- a location information request signal including data representing a request for location information of the communications device to a location information provider;
- a signal including data that indicates that a user of the communications device consented to transmission of location information;
- a location information signal from the location information provider including data representing location information of the communications device;
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- the correlation logic is further configured to correlate the location information from the location information provider to the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle based at least in part on the correlation of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle to the communications device;
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- the communications interface is further configured to communicate a location signal including data representing the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle, the location signal configured to cause representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.