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Systems, devices and methods for integrated display and management of transportation resources

  • US 9,460,410 B2
  • Filed: 11/02/2011
  • Issued: 10/04/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computational transportation resource management system, a method for configuring a graphical user interface for management of transportation resources, the method comprising:

  • constructing a query to request information associated with one or more transportation resources and one or more loads in a geographic region from one or more databases;

    programmatically rendering a map of the geographical region on the graphical user interface in the computational transportation resource management system;

    programmatically populating the map with graphical representations of a set of one or more available transportation resources at representations of current geographical locations of the one or more transportation resources based on the information associated with the one or more transportation resources, each of the representations of a set of one or more available transportation resources associated with one or more data structures including one or more functions and one or more attributes;

    programmatically populating the map with graphical representations of one or more unassigned loads at representations of current geographical locations of the one or more loads based on the information associated with the one or more loads, each of the representations of a set of one or more unassigned loads associated with one or more data structures including one or more functions and one or more attributes, the one or more attributes including a size or a type of the one or more loads;

    receiving user input selecting, directly on the map, graphical representations of a first set of one or more loads;

    executing the one or more functions included in the one or more data structures to evaluate the one or more attributes associated with the selected first set of one or more loads and the one or more attributes associated with the available transportation resources;

    in response to evaluating the one or more attributes, automatically reconfiguring the graphical user interface by execution of the one or more functions to refine the graphical representations of the set of transportation resources rendered on the map by populating the map with a subset of the set of transportation resources suitable for transporting the selected first set of loads;

    receiving user input selecting, directly on the map, graphical representations of a first set of one or more transportation resources and graphical representations of the first set of one or more loads,wherein two or more transportation resources from the first set of one or more transportation resources are combined in response to user input selecting graphical representations of the first set of one or more transportation resources to create a combined transportation resource for assignment to one of the selected first sets of loads;

    determining that the two or more transportation resources forming the combined transportation resource are incompatible for combination;

    executing code to display an error message in the graphical user interface in response to determining that the two or more transportation resources forming the combined transportation resource are incompatible for combination;

    receiving user input selecting, directly on the map, graphical representations of a second set of one or more transportation resources wherein two or more transportation resources from the second set of one or more transportation resources are combined in response to user input selecting graphical representations of the two or more transportation resources from the second set of one or more transportation resources;

    determining that the two or more transportation resources from the second set of one or more transportation resources forming the combined transportation resource are compatible for combination;

    receiving user input selecting, directly on the map, graphical representations of the second set of one or more transportation resource and dragging and dropping the selected graphical representations of the second set of one or more transportation resources onto graphical representations of the first set of one or more loads;

    executing code to generate one or more combined graphical representations, on the map, replacing the graphical representations of the second set of one or more transportation resources and the first set of one or more loads, the one or more combined graphical representations indicating one or more transportation operations in which the selected second set of one or more transportation resources is assigned to transport the first set of one or more loads from one or more geographical pickup locations to one or more geographical destination locations; and

    executing code to perform the one or more transportation operations based on the user input on the graphical user interface.

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