Database method and system for conducting integrated dispatching

• US 20070043698A1
• Filed: 07/25/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Charles Short, Sanjiv Prabhakaran
• Original Assignee: Charles Short, Sanjiv Prabhakaran
• Inventors: Prabhakaran, Sanjiv, Short, Charles
• Application Number:
  US11/493,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20070043698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/162 involving adaptations of sockets based mechanisms secure socket layer H04L63/168
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A technique for integrating a pre-existing business system with a fleet management system. The pre-existing business system includes, for example, an accounting system, a warehousing system, a dock management system, a yard management system. These fleet management system uses, for example, a combination of a raster map and vector data to provide an easy-to-read display for managing objects or articles, e.g., vehicle, container. The method uses a host gateway to provide a TCP/IP or like interface between the various systems.

Claims

1. A method for integrating a fleet management system onto legacy systems, said method comprising:

providing a fleet management system on a first platform;

providing a legacy system on a second platform;

providing a database; and

integrating said fleet management system comprising raster data and vector data to said legacy system using said database and a host gateway, said raster data and said vector data being used to display a digital map.

2-22. -22. (canceled)