Patent ID: 8880490

Claim:
A method performed by one or more processing devices, comprising: accessing a transportation schedule comprising planned records for first trips, the first trips being associated with corresponding first trip identifiers; receiving a transportation status update comprising actual records for second trips, the second trips being associated with corresponding second trip identifiers; obtaining information relating one or more of the first trip identifiers to one or more of the second trip identifiers from one or more translation tables, the one or more translation tables defining a mapping from one or more of the first trip identifiers to one or more of the second trip identifiers, the one or more translation tables including a first translation table defining a mapping of one or more sets of trip identifiers, including the first trip identifiers, to one another, the one or more sets of trip identifiers corresponding to planned records for first trips, and a second translation table defining a mapping from at least one of the one or more sets of trip identifiers to the second trip identifiers; using the information to identify a trip that is common to both the transportation schedule and the transportation status update, wherein a trip is common where the trip is identified by a first identifier of the first trip identifiers and a second trip identifier of the second trip identifiers, wherein the first trip identifier is mapped to the second trip identifier according to the one or more translation tables; and providing an update for the trip at least in part based on using the actual records of transportation status update relating to the second identifier and the planned records of the transportation schedule relating to the first identifier.