Tracematics Limited

Openet Telecom Ltd.

Thomas Brady

Cameron Ross Dunne

Alan Mcnamee

Peter Haraszti

Craig Ferguson

Methods and systems for automatically checking-in a vehicle upon its return to a station or depot. A computing device may receive fleet management data that includes a return location for the vehicle from a fleet management system. The computing device may also receive geolocation data collected by an on-board unit of the vehicle, and use the received fleet management data and the received geolocation data to determine whether the vehicle is at its return location. The computing device may then close a contract associated with the vehicle in response to determining that the vehicle is at the return location. Closing the contract may include incrementing a total rental fee value based on a total rental mileage, a return time that the vehicle entered the return location, whether the total rental mileage is within an expected rental mileage, whether the return time is before an expected return time, etc.

System and methods for automatically checking-in a vehicle

Methods and systems for detecting malfunctioning on-board telematics units in vehicles. A computing device may receive a first and second geofence location for a vehicle from a fleet management system. The computing device may determine whether it received a third location from an on-board telematics unit of the vehicle within a time period between receiving the first geofence location and receiving the second geofence location. The computing device may determine that the on-board telematics unit associated with the vehicle is in a state of anomaly in response to determining that the third location was not received from the on-board telematics unit of the vehicle within a time period between receiving the first geofence location and receiving the second geofence location.

System and methods for automatically on-boarding telematics units in vehicles

System and methods for detecting malfunctioning on-board telematics units in vehicles

Methods and systems for identifying stock anomalies in a fleet management system. A computing device may be configured to receive a geofence location for a first vehicle from the fleet management system, and receive a second location from an on-board telematics unit of the first vehicle. The computing device may determine whether the received second location is within the received geofence location. The computing device may determining that the first vehicle is in a state of anomaly in response to determining that the received second location is not within the received geofence location.

System and methods for identifying stock anomalies in a fleet management system

The present teachings relate to a method of maintaining a vehicle availability report with respect to a first location comprising determining the number of vehicles of a first type within a predetermined geofence at the first location determining the number of vehicles of the first type due to leave the first location within a predetermined time period determining whether the number of vehicles of the first type within the predetermined geofence is more than, equal to or less than the number of vehicles of the first type due to leave the first location within the predetermined time period and updating the vehicle availability report based on a result of each determining step.

System and methods for maintaining a vehicle availability report with respect to a location

The present teachings relate to a method of creating a geofence for a first location comprising receiving a time that a first vehicle was at the first location from a fleet management system, receiving a time that the first vehicle was at a second location from an on-board telematics unit of the first vehicle, determining if the first vehicle was at the second location for a predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location, and creating the geofence for the first location as including the second location if it is determined that the first vehicle was at the second location for the predetermined period of time before or after being at the first location.

System and methods for dynamic creation of a geofence for a location

The performance of a scalable computing environment in a telecommunication network may be improved by configuring a server computing system to monitor a level of traffic throughput within the telecommunication network to determine whether an increase in throughput capacity is needed or a decrease in throughput capacity is acceptable, and increasing a throughput capacity of the telecommunication network when an increase in throughput capacity is needed by adding a logical scalable unit to the telecommunication network. The logical scalable unit may including a minimum combination of logical components required to provide in a single multiprocessor system a complete set of telecommunication functionalities for a subset of users in the telecommunication network.

System and method for seamless horizontal scaling using logical scalable units

A combination of a common key routing (CKR) method and data proxy architecture (DPA) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor in a multiprocessor computing system may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a common key based on the subscriber identifiers, identify a first logical scalable unit that includes a first database memory that stores subscriber data relating to the subscriber via a database application programming interface (API) and the common key, store the first communication message in the first database memory included in the first logical scalable unit, and receive a second communication message in response to storing the first communication message in the first database memory and routing the second communication message to another component the telecommunication network.

System and method for communicating in a telecommunication network via common key routing and proxies

A combination of a common key routing (CKR) method and a data locality table (DLT) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor in a multiprocessor computing system may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a common key based on the subscriber identifiers included in the first communication message, and identify a first logical scalable unit that includes a first database memory that stores subscriber data relating to the subscriber by querying a data locality table with the common key. The processor may also identify a first application processor in the multiprocessor computing system that is part of the first logical scalable unit and send the first communication message to the first application processor.

System and methods for communicating in a telecommunication network using common key routing and data locality tables

A combination of an independent key routing (IKR) method and a data proxy architecture (DPA) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a plurality of keys for a plurality of message types, identify a first logical scalable unit (LSU) that includes a first memory that stores a first type of data via a database API and a first key, identify a second LSU that includes a second memory that stores a second type of data relating to the subscriber via the database API and a second key of the plurality of keys, store the first communication message and the first key in the first database memory, and store the first key in the second database memory.

System and methods for communicating in a telecommunication network via independent key routing and proxies

A combination of an independent key routing (IKR) method and a data locality table (DLT) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor a multiprocessor computing system may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a plurality of keys for a plurality of message types based on the subscriber identifiers, identify a first logical scalable unit that includes a first database memory that stores a first type of data relating to the subscriber by using a first key of the plurality of keys to query a data locality table, identify a first application processor in the multiprocessor computing system that is part of the first logical scalable unit, and send the first communication message and the plurality of keys to the first application processor.

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