Shipment Management Systems and Methods
First Claim
1. A computer implemented system for monitoring and managing the transportation of cargo through a shipping chain, the system comprising:
- a core domain including one or more core process, each core process having a sequence of events representing stages or actions associated with the shipping cycle;
a party domain including at least one party process, the party process having a plurality of milestones representing stages or actions associated with the shipping cycle, at least one party process subscribing to an event in the core process; and
an event bus communicatively linking the core domain and the party domain, the event bus adapted to communicate an occurrence of an event representing a business transaction among parties to the shipping chain between the core domain and the subscribed party process to realize a milestone.
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Abstract
A computer implemented system and method for managing and tracking cargo shipments through a supply chain. The system includes a core domain and a party domain. In the core domain, electronic representations of one or more core processes may be generated and maintained that includes a sequence of events and/or milestones representing real world actions associated with the shipping chain. In the party domain, electronic representations of one or more party processes may be generated and maintained that represent a sequence of various events and/or milestones that a party to the shipping chain must undertake. The core domain may generate and communicate events representative of actions that have been or should be undertaken by the parties. The events may be communicated to the party domain where the events can trigger or realize milestones indicating to the party it should undertake various real world actions relating to the shipping chain.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer implemented system for monitoring and managing the transportation of cargo through a shipping chain, the system comprising:
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a core domain including one or more core process, each core process having a sequence of events representing stages or actions associated with the shipping cycle; a party domain including at least one party process, the party process having a plurality of milestones representing stages or actions associated with the shipping cycle, at least one party process subscribing to an event in the core process; and an event bus communicatively linking the core domain and the party domain, the event bus adapted to communicate an occurrence of an event representing a business transaction among parties to the shipping chain between the core domain and the subscribed party process to realize a milestone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer implemented method for monitoring and managing a transportation of cargo through a shipping chain, the method comprising:
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providing a computer maintainable system including a core domain and a party domain communicatively linked by an event bus; presenting in the core domain one or more core processes, each core process having a sequence of events representing stages or actions associated with the shipping cycle; presenting in the party domain at least one party process, the party process having a plurality of milestones representing stages or actions associated with the shipping cycle; and communicating an occurrence of an event from the core process to the party process via the event bus. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20)
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19. A computer implemented document repository comprising:
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instructions for generating a graphical user interface for displaying stored documents associated with transportation of cargo in a shipping chain; a database for storing documents associated with transportation of cargo in a shipping chain; instructions for enabling documents to be uploaded from remote computers to the database; and instructions for querying the database to located and display the uploaded documents.
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