450results about How to "Reduce delivery costs" patented technology

Methods and associated systems for autonomous package delivery utilize a UAS/UAV, an infrared positioning senor, and a docking station integrated with a package delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV accepts a package for delivery from the docking station on the delivery vehicle and uploads the delivery destination. The UAS/UAV autonomously launches from its docked position on the delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV autonomously flies to the delivery destination by means of GPS navigation. The UAS/UAV is guided in final delivery by means of a human supervised live video feed from the UAS/UAV. The UAS/UAV is assisted in the descent and delivery of the parcel by precision sensors and if necessary by means of remote human control. The UAS/UAV autonomously returns to the delivery vehicle by means of GPS navigation and precision sensors. The UAS/UAV autonomously docks with the delivery vehicle for recharging and preparation for the next delivery sequence.

The present invention provides systems and methods of consolidating, shipping and distributing items comprising multiple orders to multiple customers. The orders are received by an inventory management service, filled and packaged at a centralized distribution center in fewer containers than there are orders. For instance, if there are N orders destined for a particular authorized outlet, then the N orders will be consolidated and shipped in at most N-1, or fewer, containers. However, each order is individually packaged, controlled, tracked and received as an individual order. The consolidated containers are shipped to an authorized outlet and the individual orders are distributed to the customers. Also provided are systems and methods for returning orders that are not picked up at the authorized outlet to a central location. The items may be, for example, service parts, wireless communication devices, etc. Warehousing, shipping and transportation costs are reduced by this invention.

The invention relates to a high-efficient logistic scheduling system and method. The high-efficient logistic scheduling method comprises the following steps: a vehicle scheduling center confirms a vehicle, which meets information characteristic elements of cargos to be scheduled according to information of cargos to be scheduled, as a scheduling object; the vehicle scheduling center confirms a corresponding scheduling strategy according to the information of cargos to be scheduled so as to generate scheduling information; the vehicle scheduling center sends the scheduling information to a wireless vehicle terminal through a wireless communication module; the wireless vehicle terminal receives the scheduling information, and sends a reply of a driver to the vehicle scheduling center; and after a positive reply is received from the wireless vehicle terminal, the vehicle scheduling center sends the characteristic information of the present scheduling task undertaker to a client. The vehicle scheduling system disclosed by the invention comprises the vehicle scheduling center and the wireless vehicle terminal. By adoption of the high-efficient logistic scheduling system and method disclosed by the invention, the vehicle scheduling center can plan an optimal driving path and an optimal cargo loading vehicle, so that the transportation efficiency is improved, and the transportation cost is reduced.

A system and method are disclosed for providing prepaid services via an open network architecture system having access to a network, such as the Internet via an Internet protocol. The architecture system is operated by a system operator and includes a customer profile database which stores various customer-related information, such as customer names and their respective payment and contact information, a plurality of databases each storing prepaid accounts for a particular prepaid service, such as telephony, Internet access, paging, and cellular, and web-site system hardware connected to the customer profile database and the plurality of databases and to a network, such as the Internet, for ubiquitously accessing the databases via the Internet for viewing and managing one's prepaid services, as well as purchasing additional prepaid services and/or usage rights. The architecture system further includes network hardware connected to the web-site system hardware for enabling outside system operators, e.g., wholesalers, online retailers, system developers and ISPs, to utilize the architecture system to brand their own prepaid services and offer them through the architecture system.

The invention discloses an information processing method, a server and a logistics terminal. The processing method include: receiving an inquire request sent by the logistics terminal; determining target order information corresponding to an authentication logo and containing a delivery address which uses a current position of the logistics terminal as a center and is in a delivery distance threshold value range in at least one order which is prestored; feeding decided target order information back to the logistics terminal; and pushing on-line prompt information to corresponding order user terminals according to order user accounts in target orders after arrival notice instructions sent by the logistics terminal are received. After logistics staff arrive at a delivery plate, a plurality of order users in specific delivery areas can be informed simultaneously according to a mode that the server pushes information to order user terminals, every order user does not need to be informed to take delivery of goods by phone, and purposes of improvement of goods delivery efficiency and reduction of delivery cost are achieved.

A system, software and related methods of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, long-term care facility pharmacy management software associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to manage pharmacological operations in a plurality of long-term care facilities, a plurality of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts each positioned in a long-term care facility remote from the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, a remote pharmacy group server in communication with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, and a plurality of pharmaceutical prescription document processors each positioned in a long-term care facility and in communication with the remote pharmacy group server or the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server.

The invention discloses an intelligent advertisement pushing system based on face recognition. The intelligent advertisement pushing system comprises an advertisement pushing client and a server. The advertisement pushing client comprises a plurality of advertisement machines. Each advertising machine comprises a client processing module, an advertising screen and a camera. The client processing module analyzes an image acquired by the camera, receives the control information of a server and controls the advertisement information displayed on the advertisement screen. The server is used for receiving the face information and the state information sent by the client processing module, and sending control information and the advertisements related to the information to the client processing module by analyzing the state information, forms the optimal strategy of the advertisement displayed in the advertisement screen of each region by analyzing the face information and state information received in each region in the set time, and sends the corresponding advertisement information and control information to the corresponding client processing module. The intelligent advertisement pushing system improves the advertisement conversion rate, reduces the running cost and increases the return rate of the advertisement dealer.

The invention discloses a construction optimizing and operating method of an automatic fixed-point picking-up system of a logistics express. A system optimizing scheme containing a picking-up machine layout, a customer demand point attribution division and an express delivery line is generated according to the geographical position, demand amount and relevant logistics cost of a demand point of city express customers. When the system operates, a delivery center classifies expresses according to an automatic picking-up machine service range of the delivery center and the expresses are delivered by delivery workers according to an optimized delivery line scheme; and meanwhile, picking-up information is sent to the customers. After the customers pick up the expresses, the information is fed back to the delivery center by a picking-up machine so as to finish the whole express delivery task; otherwise, the customers are manually called to pick up the expresses; and if the customers cannot be contacted, the expresses are sent back to sending places to finish the delivery task. By virtue of the operation of the system, the abutting problem of time and space of the delivery workers and picking-up persons can be effectively solved in the express delivery process, so that the express delivery cost is reduced, the whole efficiency is improved, and the low carbonization and greening of the logistics express are realized.

The invention relates to a dynamic adjustment-based express delivery distribution optimization method. The method includes the following steps that: express delivery dynamic information is obtained in real time, wherein the express delivery dynamic information contains the locating information of express delivery vehicles, goods delivery point information, goods taking point information and real-time traffic information; with minimum total distribution costs adopted as an objective function, a mixed integer programming model is adopted to construct a current distribution path according to the express delivery dynamic information, wherein the minimum total distribution costs contain the transportation costs of the vehicles, the fixed costs of the enabling of the vehicles, additional costs caused by the exceeding of maximum travel and penalty costs caused by the violation of time window constraints; and a simulated annealing hybrid genetic algorithm is adopted to optimize the current distribution path. According to the dynamic adjustment-based express delivery distribution optimization method of the invention, the current distribution path is optimized and dynamically adjusted according to the express delivery dynamic information, and therefore, the speed of express delivery distribution is improved, customer demands can be quickly responded, the distribution costs of an enterprise can be decreased, the utilization rate of the vehicles can be improved, urban traffic congestion can be reduced, and the operation efficiency of express delivery business can be benefitted.

The invention discloses an omni-channel advertisement accurate delivery system and method. The omni-channel advertisement accurate delivery system comprises a media management unit, an advertisement delivery unit, an advertisement content management unit, a data acquisition and analysis unit and an operation support unit, wherein the media management unit, the advertisement delivery unit, the advertisement content management unit, the data acquisition and analysis unit and the operation support unit are mutually connected. The media management unit sends out an delivery request to the advertisement delivery unit, the advertisement delivery unit feeds advertisement information corresponding to the delivery request back to the media management unit, the media management unit searches the advertisement content management unit for corresponding advertisement content according to the advertisement information and pushing the advertisement content to delivery media according to the types of channels of the delivery media, and meanwhile advertisement delivery data are stored through the data acquisition and analysis unit. Based on true, comprehensive and dynamically-updated user information, an advertisement accurate delivery scheme oriented to omni channels is provided, efficiency can be improved, accuracy of advertisement delivery is improved, delivery cost of advertisers is reduced, the advertisement delivery effect is improved, and benefits can be increased.

An intelligent logistics platform system comprises a city-wide distribution basic function module, a city-wide logistics distribution supporting service module and a transaction value-added service module. According to the platform, with high-tech intelligence as the support, the role of information technology in logistics distribution is enhanced, and a new logistics distribution service system for realizing the most effective resource allocation between city logistics vehicles and goods is achieved. Through integrating related information of logistics upstream and downstream enterprises, a comprehensive supply chain solution is provided, diverse and complex needs of a demand side can be met effectively, logistics market informatization is promoted, and while the economic development of the region is promoted, the Internet of things research and development field is expanded.

The invention discloses a data service access method and system. The method includes the steps: an intelligent domain name server (DNS) is added in a general packet radio service (GPRS) network, the intelligent DNS stores a service domain name which needs to be subjected to proxy processing by a proxy server, and an internet protocol (IP) address of the proxy server is recorded at the same time; a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) receives a programmed data processor (PDP) context activating request message sent by user equipment (UE), and the IP address of the intelligent DNS is returned to the UE; the UE launches a DNS inquiry request with a domain name of a website to be accessed to the intelligent DNS, the intelligent DNS finds out the domain name is the service domain name which needs to be subjected to proxy processing by the proxy server, the IP address of the proxy server is returned to the UE, and the UE launches a service request with a uniform resource locator (URL) to the proxy server; and the proxy server carries out the proxy processing if finding out proxy processing is needed according to target website information in the request, after the processing is finished, the proxy server sends the service request to a target website server. The data service access method and system can effectively reduce processing pressure of the proxy server and flow amount between the GGSN and the proxy server.

A system that enables a carrier to provide scheduled delivery service to a consignee is provided. The disclosed system allows the carrier to receive a consignee order from a consignor, determine whether scheduled delivery service is available, and, if scheduled delivery service is available, determine time windows from which the consignee may select for scheduled delivery. Scheduled delivery service may be available if the consignee delivery address is located within an area in which signature is required for delivery, there is a high frequency of failed delivery attempts, or there is a high frequency of inclement weather or traffic congestion/accidents, among other factors. The carrier may determine time windows from which a consignee may select based on the frequency of failed delivery attempts, inclement weather, and/or traffic congestion/accidents in the area surrounding or leading to the consignee delivery address, among other factors.

The invention relates to the field of fresh food supply chain management, and specifically relates to a preposed warehouse fresh food shopping and distribution mode. The preposed warehouse fresh food shopping and distribution mode comprises a warehousing system, a distribution system and a supply chain management system, and the supply chain management system comprises five subsystems of a purchasing system, a warehouse management system, a commodity system, an order management system and a transportation management system. A centralized + distributed management mode is employed, a centralized warehouse and several preposed warehouses are arranged in the urban area, goods are stored in the preposed warehouses, a customer places an order through a mobile phone APP, goods are sent to the customer from the closest preposed warehouse, and therefore one-hour delivery is achieved. Beneficial effects of the preposed warehouse fresh food shopping and distribution mode are that a centralized + distributed warehousing mode is employed, efficient distribution of one-hour deliver in the last one kilometer is achieved; compared with a conventional mode, the intermediate links are less, the distribution efficiency is high, time is short, and the cost is low; by means of distributed storage, supply chain steps can be greatly reduced, the distribution cost of each order can be reduced to 11 yuan, and the distribution time is reduced to one hour.

The invention discloses an urban express delivering method based on a vehicle self-organized network. The method comprises: clustering delivery areas into k blocks by utilizing urban roads and transportation data; calculating link information among blocks by utilizing a historical vehicle track; performing topology modeling according to the blocks and the link information, and establishing a weighted directed graph to draw an urban in-vehicle network; searching the weighted directed graph to obtain a sub-graph of a starting point and an end point of an express piece; obtaining an express delivering path p with minimum weight in the sub-graph by utilizing a Dijkstra shortest path algorithm, wherein the path is an optimum express delivering path; and finally, delivering the express piece according to the path p. According to the delivering mode, the cost of express delivery is greatly reduced; and urban public transport vehicles instead of express transport vehicles are utilized, so that the situation of urban traffic congestion is improved.

Novel tools and techniques for Internet service providers to enable enhanced user control over content delivery. In an aspect of certain embodiments, these tools can allow the customer to select, on a variety of different bases, whether content should be obtained from the Internet or from a lower-cost source, such as a metropolitan content delivery network (“CDN”) operated by the ISP or a private peering connection with a content source. Both of these options can, for example, avoid accessing content over the Internet and thus can reduce ISP delivery costs. In some embodiments, these cost reductions can be passed to the consumer in the way the ISP accounts for the content delivery.

The invention discloses a system for delivering multiple express items in one box cell on a storage cabinet. The system comprises the storage cabinet and a server. The storage cabinet is in communication with the server through a network. A database, an express item delivering module and an express item fetching module are arranged in the server. The storage cabinet comprises a man-machine interface and box cells. The invention further discloses a method for delivering the multiple express items in one box cell on the storage cabinet. The method includes an express item delivering step and an express item fetching step. The multiple express items of the same recipient can be placed in one box cell. The space of the box cells is reasonably utilized, the use number of the box cells is reduced, the utilization rate of the box cells is increased, each express item can be tracked and managed, and the express item losing phenomenon is avoided.

The invention discloses a power supplying and driving device and method for an ocean monitoring device. By means of the power supplying and driving device and method for the ocean monitoring device, power can be supplied to the ocean monitoring device, meanwhile, driving force can be provided for the ocean monitoring device, and the ocean monitoring device is simple, convenient to use, high in reliability, low in cost, free of pollution and long in service life. The characteristic that a solid-liquid phase change material conducts phase changes along with temperature changes is utilized, a phase change cylinder containing the solid-liquid phase change material is in direct contact with seawater, the phase change cylinder can be solidified and melted repeatedly in the floating and submerging process of the ocean monitoring device, the ocean temperature difference energy is converted into the size change, energy is charged to an accumulator, the accumulator is controlled to release the energy and change the size of an external oil bag so as to drive the ocean monitoring device to vertically move through a series of pipelines and valves, a hydraulic motor is driven to rotate to drive a generator to generate electricity, and power is supplied to a control system and a measuring device of the ocean monitoring device.

The invention discloses a B2B2C take-out platform based on business districts. According to the platform, entering merchants are divided into a series of business distributes according to regions, types and the like, user order information belonging to adjacent delivery regions in the same business district or nearby business districts is integrated and grouped according to order information, finally the order information containing a delivery mode is sent to the merchants, and platform delivery personnel are notified to go to the merchants within required time to take orders and make delivery. The invention furthermore discloses a take-out ordering system based on the business districts. The system comprises a user terminal, a merchant terminal and the B2B2C take-out platform connecting the user terminal with the merchant terminal. The invention furthermore discloses an ordering method based on the system. The B2B2C take-out platform and the take-out ordering system and method have the advantages that the platform merchants in the system are divided into the business districts, so that the merchants are no longer independent individuals, market resources are effectively integrated, a buyer realizes 1-to-N ordering and no longer has a single choice merely, the merchants bear less cost, and the buyer saves more money when placing an order.

The invention discloses packed cargo delivery system and method for express delivery enterprises. The system and method are characterized in that the cargo positions are determined by the three-dimensional box and computer and internet technology, so as to realize optimal delivery. According to the system and method, a client submits ordering information through a network system, the ordered cargos are sub-packed, and then workers pack and deliver according to the printed label information and route information; a cargo tank base provides a low-temperature environment, a high-temperature environment and a room-temperature environment for a cavity of the tank, and the cargo delivery variety and scale can be improved after overlapping and combining; before packing, the cargo storage positions are calculated by the localization algorithm program and an unique number is provided; when in delivery, the optimal route can be calculated for a delivery worker by delivery route optimizing program; all information are stored in a system database, a consignee can simply give the cargo position number and then the delivery worker can quickly locate the physical position of the cargo; an intelligent terminal can assist the delivery worker to quickly locate according to the order or the information of the consignee; therefore, the delivery speed and quality can both be improved.

The invention relates to an offline electronic ticketing system and a method thereof, in particular to an electronic ticketing system capable of checking tickets off line and a method for purchasing, checking and returning tickets. The system comprises an electronic ticketing platform, a ticket booking terminal and a ticket checking terminal, wherein the owner of the ticket booking terminal is a client, and the owner of the ticket checking terminal is a merchant; the electronic ticketing platform is connected with the ticket booking terminal and the ticket checking terminal by Ethernet or a mobile communication network; and the basic process comprises the following steps that: a digital signature is performed by the electronic ticketing platform on an electronic ticket which is provided by the merchant; then, the electronic ticket and the digital signature of the electronic ticket are manufactured into a two-dimensional barcode; the electronic ticket and the two-dimensional barcode are sent to the client who books the ticket; and under the condition that the merchant is off line, the digital signature of the electronic ticket and the ticketing information on the electronic ticket which are contained in the two-dimensional barcode provided by the client are checked by the ticket checking terminal so as to determine whether the electronic ticket is real, valid and complete. Due to the adoption of the system and the method, the operation cost of the electronic ticketing system is reduced, the ticket purchasing time of clients is saved, and the ticket checking speed is improved.

Embodiments of the invention disclose an order processing method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the method comprises the steps of obtaining order information of multiple to-be-delivered orders, wherein the order information comprises shipping address information and receiving address information; according to a source delivery point corresponding to a shipping address and a destination delivery point corresponding to a receiving address, dividing the to-be-delivered orders into multiple to-be-processed order subsets; based on a preset combination condition, dividing the to-be-processed order subsets into multiple to-be-combined order sets; and for each to-be-combined order set in the multiple to-be-combined order sets, executing the following order processing operations of determining whether the to-be-combined order set meets a preset delivery condition or not; and in response to the situation that the to-be-combined order set meets the preset delivery condition, combining the to-be-processed order subsets in the to-be-combined order set to generate a delivery order set. The order delivery is arranged according to the delivery order set generated by the method, so that relatively high delivery efficiency can be realized, the transport capacity is reduced, and the delivery cost is reduced.

The invention provides an online order distribution and delivery method based on a scoring mechanism and path planning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, orders in a certain time range of the same region are merged through a clustering algorithm; then, the historical distribution information of the rider is obtained by mining the historical distribution data of the rider in the order platform, and whether the rider matches the sub-orders in the order set is calculated; then the scores of the riders are calculated in the set of matched riders; the distribution information is preferentially pushed to the matched first rider with the highest score, and if the rider gives up, the distribution information is pushed to the matched second rider with the second highest score, andforwarded three times in the same way, and if no one takes orders, the distribution information is distributed to the snatching pool for the matched rider to snatch orders; finally, the route distribution scheme of the received single rider is determined by the cultural genetic algorithm. According to the order distribution and distribution method of the invention, the order distribution balance can be maintained while the customer experience is guaranteed, the distribution cost is further reduced, and the distribution efficiency is improved.

The invention provides a control method and device of advertising. The method includes the steps that an advertisement display request, carrying a configuration file, sent by an advertisement displayclient side is received; according to the configuration file, preset advertising control parameters are matched, and an advertisement resource file matched with the advertisement display request is obtained; the advertising control parameters and a resource file address corresponding to the advertisement resource file are feedback to the advertisement display client side so that the advertisementdisplay client side can display advertisement content appointed by the resource file address on an user interface. In addition, the invention provides a server with the method. In the scheme, throughthe server, the prestored advertising control parameters are flexibly deployed to control advertising; detailed advantages are that multi-dimension management is achieved for advertising positions, the management granularity is enriched for the advertising positions, an advertising scheme is conveniently optimized, incomes are increased for the party of advertisement display, and accurate advertising is easy.