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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
May. 04, 2018
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Sameh Ayoub, Ottawa, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A system and method for tracking and predicting usage of assets, such as shipping containers, trailers, or vehicles, based on usage data collected from a fleet of assets using mobile transceivers. During an evaluation term, a first plurality of messages comprising asset usage statuses is sent from the mobile transceivers to a tracking system. The usage statuses are used to compute a predicted quantity of assets expected to be used in a subsequent term. The predicted quantity is then allocated between a first subset of assets and a second subset of assets according to a minimal cost for the predicted quantity. In some embodiments, the first subset of assets comprising assets is associated with the mobile transceivers, and the second subset of assets comprising assets is not associated with the mobile transceivers.