MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) WEB SERVICES

摘要

The present invention is an internet communications and coordination system for providing demographic transport and shipments services. Multi-agent technology comprises the web server, vehicle, and customer applications of the internet system. Moreover, relational database technology manages and automates the sytem. Importantly, the vehicles and customers in the system are sorted by their dynamic Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates to automatically set up real-time transport and shipments propositions. And moreover, the GPS datagrams of the vehicles and customers interface to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases and web services for mapping, navigation, and ecommerce user interfaces. For example, a GIS map is drawn using the customer's GPS datagram for the map center point. Next, available vehicles are sorted by closest distance to the customer and offered as a proposition for transport services. Therefore, the system automatically creates ecommerce propositions based on dynamic closest distance between transport vehicles and mobile customers. In a preferred embodiment, the customer selects and contracts one of the closest vehicles which then navigates to the customer's current GPS position to provide the contracted transport services.