# US 9,082,098 B1 · Systems and methods for monitoring location of a vehicle or freight carried by a vehicle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,082,098 B1 - Document ID: US9082098B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 14/661,769 - Filed: 2015-03-18 - Granted: 2015-07-14 - Earliest claimed: 2012-03-26 - Assignees: MacroPoint, LLC - Applicants: MacroPoint LLC - Inventors: Bennett H. Adelson - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9082098B1 ## CPC - G06Q 10/0833: Tracking - G01S 19/13: Receivers - G01S 19/46: the supplementary measurement being of a radio-wave signal type - G06Q 10/0631: Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations - G06Q 10/08: Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management - G08G 1/13: the indicator being in the form of a map - G08G 1/20: {Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles} - G08G 1/205: {Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental} - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) ## Abstract Monitoring location of a vehicle or freight includes receiving a request for information regarding the location of the vehicle or the freight, receiving an indication of consent to transmission of location information of the communications device, correlating the vehicle or the freight with the communications device, transmitting a request for location information of the communications device to a location information provider corresponding to a party or device other than the communications device, receiving the location information of the communications device from the location information provider, correlating the location information of the communications device to the location of the vehicle or the freight based on the correlation of the vehicle or the freight to the communications device, and transmitting the location of the vehicle or the freight. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for a machine or group of machines to monitor location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle, the method comprising: receiving 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; receiving a signal including data that indicates consent to transmission of location information of a communications device; correlating, by a CPU, the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle with the communications device; transmitting a location information request signal including data representing a request for location information of the communications device to a location information provider corresponding to a party or device other than the communications device; receiving a location information signal including data representing the location information of the communications device from the location information provider; correlating, by the CPU or a second CPU, the location information of the communications device to the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle based at least in part on the correlation of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle to the communications device; and transmitting a location signal including data representing the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle, the location signal configured to cause a representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the location information provider corresponds to at least one of: a wireless service provider providing wireless service to the communications device, a third party that obtains the location information of the communications device from the wireless service provider providing wireless service to the communications device, and a party that has access to the location information of the communications device but is other than the wireless service provider or the third party that obtains the location information of the communications device from the wireless service provider. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the location information of the communications device is originally obtained using a method including a technique utilizing a global position system (GPS) satellite receiver that forms part of the communications device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the location information of the communications device is originally obtained using a method including a technique other than a technique utilizing a global position system (GPS) satellite receiver that forms part of the communications device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the location signal including data representing the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle includes exposing an application programming interface (API) from which the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle is transmitted. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the location signal including data representing the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle includes interfacing with an exposed application programming interface (API) through which the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle is transmitted. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the location signal including data representing the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle includes transmitting the location signal to one or more of: a freight service provider, a party to whom the freight service provider provides freight services, and a party that provides location information services to the freight service provider or to the party to whom the freight service provider provides freight services. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the location signal is configured to cause display of a visual representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle on a remote device's user interface by displaying the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle as latitude and longitude coordinates. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the location signal is configured to cause display of a visual representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle on a remote device's user interface by displaying the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle as at city/state. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the location signal is configured to cause display of a visual representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle on a remote device's user interface by displaying a map that includes a mark indicating the location of the vehicle on the map. ### Claim 11 A machine or group of machines embodying a system for monitoring location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle, the system comprising: a 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; and a communications interface configured to communicate electronic signals including: a location request signal received from a requesting party 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 a representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle by a remote device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the location information provider corresponds to at least one of: a wireless service provider providing wireless service to the communications device, a third party that obtains the location information of the communications device from the wireless service provider providing wireless service to the communications device, and a party that has access to the location information of the communications device but is other than the wireless service provider or the third party that obtains the location information of the communications device from the wireless service provider. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the location information of the communications device is originally obtained using a method including a technique utilizing a global position system (GPS) satellite receiver that forms part of the communications device. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the location information of the communications device is originally obtained using a method including a technique other than a technique utilizing a global position system (GPS) satellite receiver that forms part of the communications device. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the communications interface transmitting the location signal including data representing the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle includes the communications interface exposing an application programming interface (API) from which the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle is obtained by the requesting party. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the communications interface transmitting the location signal including data representing the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle includes the communications interface interfacing with an exposed application programming interface (API) through which the location of the at least one of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle is transmitted. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the requesting party corresponds to one or more of: a freight service provider, a party to whom the freight service provider provides freight services, and a party that provides location information services to the freight service provider or to the party to whom the freight service provider provides freight services. ### Claim 18 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the location signal is configured to cause display of a visual representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle on the remote device's user interface by displaying the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle as latitude and longitude coordinates. ### Claim 19 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the location signal is configured to cause display of a visual representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle on the remote device's user interface by displaying the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle as city/state. ### Claim 20 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the location signal is configured to cause display of a visual representation of the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle on the remote device's user interface by displaying a map that includes a mark indicating the location of the vehicle on the map.