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Methods and systems for tracking the flow of trucking freight and/or other assets using mobile device geolocation data

  • US 10,528,604 B2
  • Filed: 01/30/2018
  • Issued: 01/07/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of tracking freight movement by identifying and tagging freight movement data from a subset of mobile device geolocation data recorded over time from a plurality of mobile devices, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a processor of a computing device, a collection of mobile device geolocation data from mobile devices of users who have not been identified previously as freight vehicle operators, wherein the collection of mobile device geolocation data comprises global positioning system (GPS) geolocation data comprising position information for each of the plurality of mobile devices;

    automatically identifying, by the processor of the computing device, a subset of the collection of mobile device geolocation data as freight vehicle operator data (FVOD) using values of derived variables corresponding, collectively, to (a) patterns of time traveled, (b) distances traveled, and (c) visits to locations of relevance to freight vehicle operations, said values derived from the mobile device geolocation data itself,wherein the FVOD corresponds to mobile device geolocation data for mobile devices associated with freight vehicle operators;

    automatically identifying, by the processor, a subset of (equal in size or smaller than) the FVOD as freight movement data, wherein the freight movement data corresponds to movements of freight;

    tagging, by the processor, the freight movement data with searchable lead characteristics; and

    storing, by the processor and tagged freight movement database (FMD).

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