Appeal No. 2003-0768
Application No. 09/396,287
The invention is directed to a computerized logistical system for coordinating
delivery of a wide range of materials produced by different suppliers going to different
base staging areas for final transport to different delivery locations by various types of
transports over various routes. In particular, computers at delivery and base locations
are utilized to select from materials on a first list stored in a central database and
produce a second list of materials that comprises a manifest for delivery by one of a
plurality of transports.
Representative independent claim 30 is reproduced as follows:
30. A logistics method for a plurality of transports to supply a plurality
of delivery locations from one or more bases using logistics computer
programming, comprising:
providing for respective computers at said one or more bases and
at said plurality of delivery locations;
providing a central database for said respective computers, each of
said respective computers being in communication with said central
database, said logistics computer programming being operable for
providing updated logistics information to said central database from said
respective computers;
storing transport information relating to each of said plurality of
transports in said central database, said transport information including
daily cost and cost/mile information;
storing a list of materials, said materials being selectable-from said
list of materials to produce a second list of materials comprising a manifest
with manifested materials for delivery to one or more of said plurality of
delivery locations by one of said plurality of transports;
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