Granted Patent B1

US 9,452,854 · App. 13/736,308 · Granted Sep 27, 2016

Inventors: Steven C. Godfrey (Mims, FL); Richard B. Evans (Sparr, FL)

Assignee: Intellifuel Systems, Inc.

B65B57/00G05B15/02G06Q10/0875

Abstract

Claims (126)

1. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the user interface module is further reconfigured to automatically notify predetermined users of the receipt of a delivery ticket.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the list is displayed graphically on a map.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface module generates an administrative user interface allowing receipt of the movement authorizations and holds and at least one non-administrative user interface that does not allow receipt of the movement authorization and holds.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the at least one non-administrative user interface includes a marketer interface allowing receipt of the controlled material movement requests.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the at least one non-administrative user interface further includes at least one of: an origin interface, a carrier interface and a destination interface.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the movement flags include at least one each of material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the user interface module is further configured to automatically notify predetermined users of movement flags.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the movement location reports include a list of all controlled material movements within a specified area.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the list is scored to indicate level of interest.

11. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags; and

wherein the movement flags include the material identity flags of Table 1.

12. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags; and

wherein the movement flags include the material volume flags of Table 2.

13. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags; and

wherein the movement flags include the material movement flags of Table 3.

14. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags; and

wherein the movement flags include the party flags of Table 4.

15. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags; and

wherein the movement flags include automatic identification of any material/class overlaps.

16. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags; and

wherein the movement flags include automatic identification of any material/party mismatches.

17. A computer-based system for managing and tracking controlled material movements comprising at least one controlled material movement control server having at least one processor and machine-readable memory configured with program instructions to execute:

a user interface module for receiving and displaying controlled material movement information items, the movement information items including:

controlled material movement requests;

movement authorizations and holds;

bills of lading;

movement location reports;

movement delivery tickets; and

movement flags;

a movement information database for storing the movement information items;

a rules database for storing movement flag generation rules; and

a comparison engine for generating the movement flags based on application of the flag generation rules to the movement information items;

wherein the movement flags include at least one of: material identity flags, material volume flags, material movement flags and party flags; and

wherein the movement flags include automatic identification of enforcement avoidance.

18. A computer-based method for managing and tracking controlled material movements, the method comprising:

receiving, in at least one controlled material movement server, a request for a movement of controlled material;

assigning, in the at least one controlled material movement server, a unique identifier to the movement;

communicating, via the at least one controlled material movement server, notification of authorization of the movement;

receiving, in the at least one controlled material movement server, a bill of lading for the movement;

receiving, in the at least one controlled material movement server, a delivery ticket for the movement;

communicating, via the at least one controlled material movement server, notification of the delivery ticket;

determining, with the at least one controlled material movement server, whether a material movement flag should be generated when new movement information is received; and

communicating, via the at least one controlled material movement server, notification of the material movement flag;

wherein determining whether a material movement flag should be generated includes determining whether a flag criteria has been met regarding all of: a material identity characteristic, a material volume characteristic, a material movement characteristic and a party characteristic.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising displaying, via the at least one controlled material server, a map of a current location of the at least one movement.

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein a plurality of movements of controlled material are tracked by the at least one controlled material movement server, the method further comprising:

determining, with the at least one controlled material movement server, an interest score for each of the plurality of movements; and

communicating, via the at least one controlled material movement server, at least some of the plurality of movements with indications of their interest scores.

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