Method and apparatus for tracking vehicle location
AssigneeMobile Information Systems, Inc.
InventorsMukesh Chamanial Shah, Sanjiv Prabhakaran
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Abstract
A method computer aided dispatching. The present method includes providing a display 510 having a first display segment 530. The first display segment 530 includes a digitized representation of a selected area from a raster map, intelligent area data superimposed upon the selected area to provide intelligence, and a user locatable mark 520. The user locatable mark 520 defines a mobile unit position based upon a first value and a second value. The present method also includes using a dispatch system 811 operably coupled to the display. The dispatch system 811 includes order data from customers. A portion of the order data is transferred from a data acquisition 801, 808 device to the mobile unit 610.
Claims8
An integrated fleet management system, said system comprising:
- a database comprising a raster database portion and a vector database portion;
- a computer aided dispatch system coupled to said database, said computer aided dispatch system being capable of receiving mobile information from a mobile unit;
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- a mobile data terminal coupled to said computer aided dispatch system, said mobile data terminal being capable of transferring said mobile information from said mobile unit to said computer aided dispatch system.
A fleet management system comprising:
- a database comprising a raster database portion and a vector database portion;
- a computer aided dispatch station for receiving and transferring vehicle information;
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- a mobile data terminal coupled to said computer aided dispatch station, said mobile data terminal comprising a microprocessor-controlled circuit coupled to a mobile radio modem, said mobile data terminal being adapted to transmit information in the form of data to said computer aided dispatch station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.