Patent ID: 6339745
Filing Date: 2002-01-15
Classification: G07C,G08G

Abstract:
A system for tracking and graphically displaying the positions of vehicles in a fleet comprising:at least one vehicle comprising: a G.P.S. receiver for receiving G.P.S. data; and a communicator coupled to the G.P.S. receiver for communicating the G.P.S. data to a base station; the base station comprising: a base station receiver for receiving the G.P.S. data from the communicator; a computer system coupled to the base station receiver, wherein the computer system comprises: a database comprising text data relating to the at least one vehicle and a graphical representation of the at least one vehicle; mapping and tracking software for tracking and displaying the position of the at least one vehicle on a map; updating software for interacting with the mapping and tracking software wherein the updating software further comprises instructions for updating the text data in the database when the base station receiver receives G.P.S. data, updating the graphical representation of the at least one vehicle when the base station receiver receives G.P.S. data, linking the text data and the graphical representation of the at least one vehicle, and interactive communication by a user at the base station with the at least one vehicle; a display for receiving instruction from the mapping and tracking software and for displaying the text data and graphical representation of the at least one vehicle; a selector interacting with the mapping and tracking software, wherein the updating software further comprises instructions for displaying text data from the database when the graphical representation of the at least one vehicle is selected using the selector and further comprises instructions for displaying the graphical representation of the at least one vehicle when the text data is selected using the selector; and wherein the updating software further contains instructions for identifying preselected words for detection when transmitted in a message of communicated data and for downloading the communicated data associated with the preselected words into separate report databases.