US 12,423,645 B2
Container utilization
Vivian Chiang, Taipei (TW); Huang-Yu Lin, Taipei (TW); and Sean O'Malley, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to BlueX Trade, Inc., Diamond Bar, CA (US)
Filed by BlueX Trade, Inc., Diamond Bar, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/521,491.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/111,620, filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147925 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0835 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 10/083 (2024.01); G06Q 10/20 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0835 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0838 (2013.01); G06Q 10/20 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a carrier device associated with a carrier;
a cargo endpoint device associated with a shipper, wherein the carrier device and cargo endpoint device are configured to facilitate a connection between the carrier and the shipper;
a carrier datastore for storing data about the carrier;
a shipper datastore for storing data about the shipper;
a recipient datastore for storing data about a recipient;
a container datastore for storing container and transport parameters;
a third party datastore with contact information for third parties, wherein third parties include freight forwarders;
a mode/route datastore with data regarding timing and costs associated with known transportation channels;
a contract datastore including applicable container and transport parameters for a shipment;
a container and transport parameter provisional allocation engine, coupled to the container datastore, third party datastore, mode/route datastore, and contract datastore to provisionally allocate teleconnected containers in consideration of upcoming responsibilities in association with a shipment, using the container datastore, third party datastore, mode/route datastore, and contract datastore;
teleconnected containers, wherein each of the teleconnected containers includes a wireless transmitter built into a door of the teleconnected container;
a transparent container and transport parameter disposition engine for converting provisional allocations to actual allocations;
a transport state datastore;
a container state datastore;
a freight forwarding oversight engine that uses the transport state datastore, the container state datastore, and the wireless transmitters built into the doors of the teleconnected containers to resolve outstanding issues related to freight forwarding;
a container maintenance engine that determines whether a container of the teleconnected containers is to be retired or maintenance is to be performed;
wherein an initial transport parameter state is a pre-pickup state that includes an identified set of allocated containers, an identified transport for taking the allocated set of containers to a pick up location, and a contracted handoff window or time;
wherein the pre-pickup state includes a first sub-state for idleness and a second sub-state for a countdown to a predicted state change from an allocated pre-pickup state to a containers on transport state.