Patent ID: 9607283
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G01S,G06Q,G08G

Claim:
1. A system for obtaining location of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle, the system comprising: a mobile device comprising a GPS receiver, a display, a microprocessor and a wireless communication transceiver coupled to the GPS receiver, the mobile device programmed to receive data sent by a plurality of GPS satellites, calculate location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver and transmit the location information; a server comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a clock, and a server communication transceiver that receives the location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver, and the central processing unit programmed to: receive a request for the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle, request the location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver from a location information provider corresponding to a device other than the mobile device and associated with one or more of: receive the location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver from the location information provider corresponding to the device other than the mobile device; estimate the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle based on the location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver; and transmit the location of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle as estimated based on the estimation for visual representation on a display, wherein the central processing unit is further programmed to: receive data that indicates consent to transmission of the location information of the vehicle or the freight carried by the vehicle.