Cargo Tracking GUI Layout for Real-Time Logistics Estimates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Import and export companies face inefficiencies in obtaining accurate maritime logistics estimates due to manual calculations and multiple communications with forwarding companies, lack of real-time location tracking, and difficulty in comparing logistics costs, especially for unique items like machinery.
Innovation Solution
A graphic user interface (GUI) system for real-time cargo history management using cargo tracking API linkage, integrating a service providing server, user terminal, and cargo location server, enabling real-time tracking, automatic estimate comparisons, and integrated logistics solutions with multilingual support.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual calculations and multiple communications are used to obtain logistics estimates, then accurate maritime logistics cost calculation is achieved, but time consumption and communication overhead increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and stores logistics cost data in a database before actual transport requests. When a user needs an estimate, the system retrieves pre-computed data through API linkage, eliminating the need for real-time manual calculations and multiple communications while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
An automated estimation system acts as an intermediary between import/export companies and forwarding companies. This intermediary uses API linkage to automatically retrieve and process logistics cost data, replacing manual calculations and reducing communication overhead between parties.
2Measurement precision
If detailed information is collected from import/export companies to calculate accurate maritime logistics cost, then estimation accuracy improves, but communication complexity and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by allowing import/export companies to input their own cargo information through a user terminal, which is then automatically processed through API linkage with the forwarding company's system. This eliminates the need for back-and-forth communications to collect detailed information.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated estimation system serves as an intermediary that standardizes and automates the collection of detailed cargo information. Through API linkage, it automatically exchanges necessary data between the user terminal and forwarding company, reducing communication complexity while ensuring all required information is collected for accurate estimation.
3Loss of information
If real-time cargo tracking is implemented, then cargo location visibility is improved, but system complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service providing server acts as an intermediary that receives cargo location data from the cargo location providing server through API linkage and relays it to the user terminal. This intermediary approach simplifies the tracking system architecture by centralizing the data exchange process and reducing direct complexity between tracking components.
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AI summary
A method for providing real-time cargo history management service on a graphic user interface (GUI) based on cargo tracking application programming interface (API) linkage. The method includes: automatically generating the GUI of a real-time tracking information window based on a real-time tracking information and a corresponding geographical map based on the real-time tracking information; automatically generating, on the corresponding geographical map, a land departure point, a land destination, a sea departure point, a sea transit point, a sea destination, a current location, and a connecting line from the land departure point to the current location; automatically arranging the GUI of the real-time tracking information window over the corresponding geographical map to display the GUI together with the land departure point, the land destination, the sea departure point, the sea transit point, the sea destination, the current location, and the connecting line, avoiding overlapping each other on a display.