Patent ID: 6768994
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A database reporting method that utilizes a wireless gateway for monitoring and directing the efficient usage of a fleet of vehicles of a business enterprise by respective business enterprise users of the reporting method through multiple wireless networks and the Internet using web served applications, said gateway adapted to acquire and use data related to vehicle activity, location and navigation including position, speed, direction of travel, and other specified vehicle-related events detected or determined and wirelessly reported, at least in part, by one or more vehicle-based sensors and to provide a common interface and protocol for handling said data for enabling applications that follow said protocol to interface with said gateway and to use said data to tag vehicle-related events, said gateway being further adapted for storing said tagged events and forwarding thereof in real time through the Internet to the respective business enterprise users, said method comprising:establishing a plurality of groups of database-stored ones of said vehicle-related events according to event type, and in response to web queries by said business enterprise users, reporting to respective ones of said users on the web concerning individual vehicle or fleet efficiency matters related to said database-stored events in each of said groups relevant to respective ones of said queries.