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Container tracking system

  • US 7,194,330 B2
  • Filed: 06/04/2003
  • Issued: 03/20/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A container tracking system, comprising:

  • a dispatcher workstation for use at a shipping container storage yard, the dispatcher workstation comprising;

    a database for storage of location information related to a plurality of shipping containers located throughout the shipping container storage yard;

    a display for providing a graphical user interface representing a number of map locations of the plurality of shipping containers that are derived from the location information in the database; and

    a mobile unit for attachment to a piece of container-handling equipment that can roam around said shipping container storage yard and transport individual ones of the shipping containers to different locations, the mobile unit comprising;

    a navigation computer configured to provide real time three-dimensional position solutions of a location of the mobile unit; and

    a communications link between the mobile unit and the dispatcher workstation configured to transmit the real time position solutions in real time to the dispatcher workstation for storage in the database.

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