Patent ID: 7933693

Claim:
A computerized system for creating a historical record of the location of maritime vessels and their geographic relationships over time and for harvesting business intelligence from the created historical record, the system comprising: a data storage system which stores real time data and historical data regarding the location of vessels and their geographic relationships over time; a reception system including one or more land located receivers for receiving automated identification system (AIS) from a plurality of vessels; a processing module, which receives the automated identification system (AIS) signals from the reception system; an inbound message queue, which receives the AIS signals from the processing module and stores them in the data storage system; a parsing module, which processes the AIS signal to divide each AIS signal into a plurality of AIS component data including vessel identifying information and location information and stores them in the data storage system; and a points of interest (POI) module, which stores data defining points of interest in the data storage system and includes a state machine, which derives arrival and departure events of a vessel relative to points of interest using the data defining the points of interest and the AIS component data and updates the data storage system with the derived arrival and departure events; wherein data regarding vessels from which AIS signals have been received and points of interest for which arrival and departure have been derived is accumulated in the data storage system over time to form a historical record.