Patent ID: 8301517
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for grouping at least two parcels, the computer-implemented method comprising: identifying at least two parcels that may be related to each other, wherein each of the at least two parcels comprises cargo and is associated with parcel data; validating, using one or more processors, that the at least two parcels are related using the parcel data for each of the at least two parcels, wherein two parcels are related when each parcel includes at least a portion of the same cargo at different times during a voyage of a particular cargo; obtaining relationship data regarding the at least two parcels upon validating that the at least two parcels are related; validating, using one or more processors, the relationship data for the at least two parcels, wherein validating the relationship comprises validating a chronological order of the at least two parcels; and grouping the at least two parcels as at least a portion of the voyage of the particular cargo upon validating the relationship data for the at least two parcels.