Patent ID: 9483942
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G01C,G01S,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory application program interface (API) for transportation location data tracking, comprising: i. a receiver component configured to receive requests for transportation location data for a plurality of vehicles at a local database server; ii. a connection component configured to establish connectivity of the local database server with a plurality of foreign databases, wherein the transportation location data of a first vehicle selected from the plurality of vehicles is located in a first foreign database of the plurality of foreign databases and the transportation location data of a second vehicle selected from the plurality of vehicles is located in a second foreign database or the first foreign database of the plurality of foreign databases; iii. a transmission component configured to send a request to the foreign databases for vehicle transportation location data contained within the foreign databases of the first and second vehicles, respectively; iv. an interpreter component configured to process at least a subset of requested location data from the first and second foreign databases in a unified format; and v. a transformation component configured to compile and display gathered vehicle transportation location data in the unified format on a central device or software application.