Freight tracking method and freight tracking system
First Claim
1. A cargo tracking method of tracking locations of a cargo to which consignment notes prepared by an in-country or overseas consignor are attached when the cargo is delivered to a consignee identified in the consignment notes while the cargo is being loaded into or unloaded from pickup vehicles at respective stations, the cargo tracking method comprising:
- a point information transmitting step of transmitting consignment note number and work type showing loading or unloading at the vehicles or at the stations as point information each time the cargo is loaded into the pickup vehicles or is unloaded at the stations;
a point management information creating step in which the stations receive each of the point information and relates the point information to the consignment note number in the corder of reception at the point information so as to store the point information and the point information is point management information of each consignment note; and
a point information providing step of, when a request of the point management information of the consignment note number is made, providing the point information of the consignment note number requested through a communication network used by a requesting source in a predetermined form.
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Abstract
Each driver and each station are provided with a PDT 1a, 1b, . . . , and a freight collecting station (2), a relay station (3), a delivering station (4) and a center (5) are connected together via a dedicated line (6) to send point information Pi to each station. Every time point information Pi is sent from PDTs 1a, 1b, . . . , these computers transfer it to the center (5) over the dedicated line (6), send point information Pi to a web server (11) from the freight collecting station (2), the relay station (3) or the delivering station (4), and provide point information Pi in conformity with an access request from cell phones (8), user personal computers (9) and personal computers in sales offices (10).
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9 Claims
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1. A cargo tracking method of tracking locations of a cargo to which consignment notes prepared by an in-country or overseas consignor are attached when the cargo is delivered to a consignee identified in the consignment notes while the cargo is being loaded into or unloaded from pickup vehicles at respective stations, the cargo tracking method comprising:
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a point information transmitting step of transmitting consignment note number and work type showing loading or unloading at the vehicles or at the stations as point information each time the cargo is loaded into the pickup vehicles or is unloaded at the stations;
a point management information creating step in which the stations receive each of the point information and relates the point information to the consignment note number in the corder of reception at the point information so as to store the point information and the point information is point management information of each consignment note; and
a point information providing step of, when a request of the point management information of the consignment note number is made, providing the point information of the consignment note number requested through a communication network used by a requesting source in a predetermined form. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A cargo tracking system for collecting data at the time of loading or unloading a cargo into pick up vehicles at each of a plurality of stations to which a consignment note prepared by an in-country or overseas consignor is attached via a network and tracking a location of the cargo from the collected data when the cargo is delivered to a consignee identified in the consignment note, the cargo tracking system comprising:
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a plurality of portable terminals provided to drivers for the respective pickup vehicles and stations by whom and where the cargo is loaded, unloaded or delivered, the portable terminals obtaining a consignment note number of the cargo, work types showing loading or unloading at the pickup vehicles or the stations as point information at the time of loading, unloading and delivering the cargo;
a transmission device provided for each of the vehicles and each of the stations, the transmission device transmitting the point information obtained by the portable terminals every time when the portable terminals are connected to the transmission device;
a point information management device connected to the network for receiving the point information from the transmission devices at the stations or the pickup vehicles and relating the point information to the consignment note number so as to store the point information in an order of reception, and transmitting the point management information to the network; and
a server connected to the network for storing the point management information from the point management device and when the consignment note number and the point management information are requested, providing the point management information in a predetermined form to a terminal where the request is made. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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