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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2002
Peter A. Thayer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alexander Babichev, Fremont, CA (US);
Milind M. Dange, Milpitas, CA (US);
Subramanian Mahesh, Foster City, CA (US);
MobileAria, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for tracking a fleet of vehicles, such as trucks or aircraft, includes a set of vehicle processing systems associated with each vehicle. Each vehicle processing system receives a travel route matrix from a remote server, and generates periodic vehicle position information which is compared with a propagating wave associated with different segments, or corridors, of the matrix. When the vehicle position is determined to lie outside the propagating wave and a geo-corridor at a particular point in time, alerts are sent to the server notifying the server of same. Corrective action can then be taken, such as remotely disabling the vehicle, or alerting a fleet manager.