Patent ID: 8344879

Claim:
A method of tracking an asset, the method comprising: associating a tracking device with the asset; receiving, at a mobile asset tracking system associated with a vehicle, information from the tracking device; transmitting, from the mobile asset tracking system, asset tracking data comprising at least a portion of the information received from the tracking device; receiving, at an asset tracking computer system, the asset tracking data; identifying, at the asset tracking computer system, a location of the mobile asset tracking system; identifying, at the asset tracking computer system, the asset, based at least in part the asset tracking data; updating, at the asset tracking computer system, an asset database with data correlating the asset with the location of mobile asset tracking system; receiving, at the asset tracking computer system, a plurality of sets of updated asset tracking data over a period of time; and identifying a usage pattern of the asset, based on the plurality of sets of updated asset tracking data.