Standard transportation excellent maintenance solutions

• US 6,801,841 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2002
• Issued: 10/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Joseph A. Tabe
• Original Assignee: Joseph A. Tabe
• Inventors: Tabe, Joseph A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tan Q.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Dalena
• Application Number:
  US10/096,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20020147610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• Field of Search: 701/29, 701/32, 701/35, 701/36, 700/108, 700/109, 700/110, 709/100, 709/217, 709/203, 709/227, 709/310, 370/395.61, 370/389, 370/395.1, 370/395.5, 370/395.6, 717/171, 717/173
• US Class Current: 701/29
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A transportation information system'"'"'s technology for communicating with end users to finding transportation solutions on failed components, a detailed description of a failed component'"'"'s behavior is typed-in and analyzed by the system'"'"'s software and a solution is enabled from its database warehouse. After the solution is enable, the system generates a repair order form for record keeping of the failed component repaired and also generates preventive maintenance inspection programs and forms from counting a preset mileage of logged-on equipment.

Claims

1. An industrial standard transportation maintenance solution for supplying information and enabling telecommunication means through at least a web-based facility, wherein said web-based facility enables on-line services to handle transportation maintenance programs and enable prescribed solutions to failed equipment components in accordance with DOT and equipment manufacturer'"'"'s format, and wherein said communication system for said web-based facility contains software for generating transportation preventive maintenance inspection programs and forms and for enabling solutions to transportation component failure without a physical connection means to at least a transportation vehicle, comprising:

a computing database warehouse for compiling and storing information and solutions in connection with at least one transportation equipment;

a network computing means for record keeping of files and for the centralization of a plurality of computing means from other connecting and communication environments;

a plurality computing means for inputting and outputting characters and symbols indicative of queried information from at least one database warehouse, and for communicating with other computing means;

a screen monitoring means for optically sensing and displaying images and said information and characters extracted from a database warehouse;

interface switching means connected to said database warehouse for designating a range of assigned characters in a text and binary comparison with coded characters in the said database warehouse in response to queried input for enabling network and online communication and solutions to said queried input;

a web-based computing means coupled to said interface switching means for connecting an input signal from a user to said network computing terminal based on at least one condition, wherein said condition is in accordance with a user security number, said security number being stored such that said network terminal in accordance with said selected condition enables entry capable of accessing said database warehouse on at least one selected user security number corresponding to said condition;

a control means for relocating a range of assignment while maintaining a defined task of characters or symbols in exchange for a solution, wherein said solution is viewed on said monitoring means when the said characters are within a defined range of assignment;

means for updating connectivity to said database warehouse, and for updating the range of assignment when a connection is disabled or enabled;

signal processing means, connected to said updating means for executing a prescribed function corresponding to the said updated function in response to the operational set mode signal, for generating a matching solution to a defined failed equipment components; and

image output means, connected to a signal processing means, for generating an image in response to a matching solution.

2. A transportation system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system comprises means for enabling a web-based standard transportation excellent maintenance solution for supplying online preventive maintenance inspection programs and solutions to failed components, and for enabling technical support to transportation providers.

3. A transportation system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system comprises means for providing a step-by-step directory to finding defective components and for providing solutions to said defective components through a web-based online analytical rundown of transportation failures and industrial problems and solutions for enabling vehicular preventive maintenance.

4. A transportation system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system comprises means for transforming transportation required maintenance inspection procedures into an electronic commerce transportation technology for enabling web-based transportation vehicle maintenance solutions.

5. A transportation system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system comprises means for ensuring industrial transportation safety by means of an online distribution of transportation solutions to mechanical and electro-mechanical component failures and analysis through a system of network distribution to transportation providers.

6. A transportation system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said system comprises means for transporting at least a routine transportation safety procedure online, said transportation safety procedure includes equipment such as transport planes, transport vehicles, and marine equipment, and for executing standard preventive maintenance inspection and enabling at least one solution to said component failures.

7. A transportation system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said system comprises means for enabling preventive maintenance programs online and for providing means for scheduling at least one transportation equipment for preventive maintenance inspection in response to the operating hours and fuel consumption of said one transportation equipment.

8. A system and apparatus for assembling solutions and preventive maintenance programs to transportation equipment component failure without a physical connection to said transportation equipment, for executing defined tasks through a controlling electronic procedure, enabling data and solutions when queried for transportation preventive maintenance and repair activities, wherein said procedure includes a controller responsive for inputting commands and outputting solutions for said activities to at least one monitor screen, comprising:

means for generating a master database warehouse describing a plurality of language files containing compiled component failures and solutions to fixed transportation maintenance programs;

means for generating a variable PDL file containing database information descriptions of variable transportation component failures with variable information regarding solutions for said failed components;

means for invoking said master database warehouse and variable PDL file descriptions in conjunction with queried text for online procedures, wherein said online procedures imposes activation of the said master database warehouse and variable PDL file context for enabling online transportation solutions to at least one local output device;

means for transmitting the imposed master database warehouse and variable PDL file into a display and output device readable on a screen or printout means;

first means for developing a template file defining said readable language with fixed information common to said variable PDL file, wherein said template file and said variable PDL file information are unique to at least one language in the database for enabling readable screen display of at least one solution to said queried text;

second means responsive to the first means for developing a master data file unique to generating transportation solutions to failed components and for generating a preventive maintenance program from said template file, wherein said master data file defines transportation information generally common to at least one make and model vehicle;

database means having entries therein representing at least one queried text for enabling variable information relating to transportation safety, wherein said variable information is readable by other of said at least one electronic devices; and

means wherein said means responsive to said database means and said first and second developing means for converting the said template file and the database context into responses unique to at least a typed queried command for specifying the sequence and the content of the failed component and for enabling solutions to said failed component.

9. A system and apparatus of claim 8, comprising software for enabling responses to requested information and for solving at least one transportation problem by allowing server tools to communicate with other electronic devices such as at least one computer from a remote user terminal.

10. A system and apparatus of claim 8, comprising at least one application tool for permitting at least one user to input and perform a defined task.

11. A system and apparatus of claim 8, comprising a ROM for allowing at least one software to communicate with at least one hardware, for enabling security and reliability on industrial files and folders.

12. A system and apparatus of claim 8, comprising at least one server for keeping all records and for centralizing at least one computer through at least a cable wireless connection, for creating security identification and setting permissions and rights for end users.

13. A system and apparatus of claim 8, comprising a network adaptor for providing a physical connection to at least one network, and for locating physical addresses of at least one communicating device of at least one end user.

14. A transportation information and communication system that requires no physical connection to transportation equipment, for enabling an electronic means of generating a standard transportation excellent preventive maintenance program online, wherein said maintenance program includes solutions to failed transportation components that have been encoded for correcting a plurality of mechanical and/or electro-mechanical component failures by at least one processing means, and wherein said processing means enables online communication programmed to respond to at least one queried text for initiating a sequence of failure analysis from the make and model of at least one transportation equipment, and for enabling solutions contained in at least one database context for enabling responses to a plurality of sequences of at least one transportation equipment component, at least one sequence includes at least one error correcting means responsive for describing at least one failed component when said description of the said failed component is typed therein, for generating at least one unique transportation system solution which is respective information for correcting said sequences of error prior to screen display solutions thereto, which are integral multiples of standard preventive maintenance solutions enabling safe operation of said transportation equipment and at least one predetermined transportation solution for failed components for correcting at least one failed component of the sequence thereof, comprising:

an operator terminal for computing at least one query by a person to enable communication through web-base transmission and for enabling at least one receiving and monitoring means;

a transmitting, a receiving, and a monitoring means including memories for storing text and images, and for editing functions and selected parameters from at least one operator specified text request responsive to designating data functions in response to said request;

an analyzing means for analyzing said data received by at least one processing means, for establishing parameters of user requested information responsive for each of the plurality of selected inputted request elements being monitored, and for determining potentially favorable solutions to said request;

editing means, connected to said monitoring means and a processing means, for adding, deleting, and correcting selected search characters for processing by at least said processing means;

means for recording edited digital information on a medium, wherein said means includes at least an initial and final process of editing the digital information at predetermined points of selected inputs and/or outputs so that multiple solutions to failed components are enabled;

means for signaling from at least one computing device to beyond selected environmental terminals when said at least one computing device deviates from normal use parameters being monitored; and

a transmitting means and a receiving means for monitoring at least one database content, wherein said transmitting and receiving means include time and duration of a plurality of selected inputs and outputs of transportation information, for reporting transmitting data and for monitoring receiving data from and through each of the processing means.

15. A transportation information and communication system with at least one electronic means as claimed in 14, comprising a model layer for communicating through at least one computing means to at least a network receiving data source for enabling online information and communication thereon.

16. A transportation information and communication system with at least one electronic means as claimed in 14, comprising an application layer for supporting files and application services, print services, message services, and database services, and for enabling first identities of equipment make and model per typed query, and second identities of entries of detailed descriptions of search problems to enable at least one solution.

17. A transportation information and communication system with at least one electronic means as claimed in 16, comprising a presentation layer for coding data from said application layer.

18. A transportation information and communication system with at least one electronic means as claimed in 14, comprising a session layer for managing all communication processes to at least one transport layer for delivering data to at least one end user.

19. A transportation information and communication system with at least an electronic means as claimed in 14, comprising a network layer for enabling data to be moved online/wirelessly over the internet through routers, and for communicating with internet protocol to enable encapsulating search data into at least one readable data gram for transmission to at least one end user.

20. A transportation information and communication system with at least an electronic means as claimed in 14, comprising a transport protocol for enabling problem and solution addresses, and for enabling communication between at least one computing means and a default gateway.