Real-time logistics situational awareness and command in a virtual reality environment

• US 10,430,738 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2017
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Route4Me, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Route4Me, Inc.
• Inventors: Khasis, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Hilgendorf, Dale W
• Application Number:
  US15/684,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20170351992A1
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08355 Routing methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• 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: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

Methods and systems for monitoring and interacting with a collection of geospatially aware assets, or any connected geo-location enabled device, through a virtual reality interface are disclosed. A diagram may be utilized as a real-time route progress indicator to determine a route'"'"'s completion status and as a destination position indicator to determine the position of a destination among all destinations of a route. The virtual reality environment may provide the benefit of, and ability to, modify the visual field, such as to fit a large number of routes, e.g., 50,000 or more, onto an area viewable in the virtual reality environment to efficiently manage large fleets, or to divide a screen into a plurality of individual screens to organize the data in a visually effective manner. The user interface may be personalized for the user, or customized for a specific business operation.

Claims

1. A data processing system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform a method, comprising;

receiving at least one of a route data, an asset data and a user data;

generating a virtual reality environment based on the at least one of a route data, an asset data and a user data;

displaying the virtual environment comprising the at least one of a route data, an asset data and a user data;

permitting a user to interact with the virtual reality environment, and

wherein the virtual reality environment is organized by route density data.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

wherein the virtual reality environment comprises at least one of a route matrix and a route timeline.

3. The system of 14, further comprising:

permitting the user to modify the route matrix and the route timeline.

4. The system claim 3, further comprising:

wherein modifying the route matrix and the route timeline comprises modifying one or more destinations of a route.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

wherein the modifying of the one or more destinations is within a single route, or

wherein the modifying of the one or more destinations is among a plurality of routes.