Method and apparatus for monitoring railway defects
AssigneeCairo Systems, Inc.
InventorMichael A. Bryan
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Abstract
A method for monitoring defects in a railway with a computer system, the computer system includes the steps of determining positional data and status data for a railway, comparing historical status data to the status data to determine a defect for the railway, the defect having a defect type, displaying an image of a particular geographic area on a display that includes a location corresponding to the positional data, determining an icon associated with the defect type, and displaying the icon associated with the defect type on the display.
Claims20
A method for monitoring defects in a railway with a computer system, the computer system, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining positional data and status data for a railway;
- comparing historical status data to the status data to determine a defect for the railway, the defect having a defect type;
- displaying an image of a particular geographic area on a display that includes a location corresponding to the positional data;
- determining an icon associated with the defect type;
- and
- displaying the icon associated with the defect type on the display.
A computer program product for a computer including a processor for monitoring railway defects, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer-readable media including:
- code that directs the processor to determine positional data and status data for a railway;
- code that directs the processor to compare historical status data to the status data to determine a defect for the railway, the defect having a defect type;
- code that directs a display to display an image of a particular geographic area that includes a locating associated with the positional data;
- code that directs the processor to determine an icon associated with the defect type;
- and
- code that directs the display to display the icon associated with the defect type.
A computer system for monitoring railway defects, the computer system comprising:
- a processor;
- a display coupled to the processor;
- a computer-readable media coupled to the processor including:
- code that directs the processor to determine positional data and status data for a railway;
- code that directs the processor to compare historical status data to the status data to determine a defect for the railway, if any, the defect having a defect type;
- code that directs a display to display an image of a particular geographic area that includes a region associated with the positional data;
- code that directs the processor to determine an icon associated with the defect type, if any;
- and
- code that directs the display to display the icon associated with the defect type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.