Trimble Navigation Limited

Trimble Inc.

Robert Joseph Allen

Craig Howard

James M Janky

Richard W Rudow

A network based computerized system for managing a trip. The network based computerized system includes a network, which includes one or more of the Internet and a wide area network. The network based computerized system includes a server coupled to the network running a network based application for allowing a user of a client computer coupled with the network to store, on the server, data relating to the trip. The network based computerized system includes a cellular telephone system coupled to the network for allowing a user of a portable electronic device disposed for wirelessly communicating with the cellular telephone system to access the server and download the data relating to the trip. The portable electronic device performs a geo-locating function for determining a geographic location of the portable electronic device and accesses a signal relating to the geographic location generated by a system for determining the geographic location.

Systems, methods and devices for trip management functions

A Web based application system for managing a trip. The Web based application system for managing a trip includes a graphical user interface for allowing a client computer coupled to a network to access a server computer to retrieve and store data relating to the trip therewith, one or more interactive windows functioning with the graphical user interface to perform the retrieving and the storing such that the data include a Web document and the graphical user interface and the interactive windows include a first application, and a wireless device interface for allowing a portable device wirelessly coupled, with a cellular telephone system, with the network to access the Web document. The portable device includes a cellular telephone functionality, a geo-locating functionality and a processor for processing the Web document. The processing helps manage the trip. Downloading and processing the Web document include a second application.

Systems, methods, and devices for performing a trip management function are disclosed. A client computer accesses a server networked therewith to retrieve and store data, such as Web documents, relating to the trip. A wireless device interface allows a portable device, wirelessly coupled with a cellular telephone system with the network, to download the Web document. The portable device has cellular telephone functionality, geo-locating functionality, such as GPS capability, for determining its geo-location, and a processor for processing the Web document to help manage the trip. The Web document can include a set of map tiles, which encompass a particular geo-location area, and which form a dynamic map display. As the geo-location of the device changes, the next sequential map tile is downloaded and processed for displayed thereon.

A database reporting and data mining system operates in one embodiment on a database of a location aware wireless gateway that processes message, location, event data obtained from an asset sensor or user, and other telemetry data from remote assets such as vehicles of a business enterprise fleet, and presents configurable reports on web pages displayed within the user's web browser in text or chart form. Reports, which may be user-customized, are created in response to user queries regarding, e.g., activity, and trends and summaries of activity for individual vehicles or an entire fleet. Database-stored event data grouped by relationship, e.g., start and end events, enable automatic computation of desired information such as time and distance between events. Report data in XML format are re-formatted in XSL stylesheets.

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Chandler, AZ, United States of America

Robert Joseph Allen