Patent ID: 8378854

Claim:
A system for providing improved augmentation for a global positioning system, the system comprising: (a) a GPS enabled vehicle device associated with a delivery vehicle traveling on a delivery route; (b) a communication device associated with the delivery vehicle in electronic communication with the GPS enabled vehicle device; (c) a stationary GPS device associated with an operating object located along the delivery route, wherein the stationary GPS device is configured to: (1) receive signals from a plurality of satellites associated with the global positioning system; (2) determine a calculated location of the operating object for which the stationary GPS device is affixed based on the received signals; and (3) determine an error correction based on a predetermined location of the stationary GPS device and the calculated location of the stationary GPS device; and (d) a stationary communication device, associated with the operating object, configured to receive the error correction from the stationary GPS device and communicate the error correction to the communication device associated with the delivery vehicle as the delivery vehicle travels within a predetermined distance of the operating object, wherein the communication device communicates the error correction to a second GPS enabled device proximate to the delivery route as the delivery vehicle travels the delivery route.