114 results about "Home deliveries" patented technology

A method and apparatus for connecting and operating plurality of lockers in a multi apartment or multi office building connected via an interface to a video interphone system and via a local guardman or a virtual guardman over a network, for providing access to the building and opening a locker for a deliveryman to deliver packages, parcels and ordered goods. The tenants receiving a message through their video interphone monitor can retrieve the deliveries by opening the specific locker from their video interphone monitor, through the entry panel and through associated accessories.

The invention relates to a method for constructing a full-coverage all-direction resource sharing family endowment service system, belonging to the field of the information processing and transmission technology. The invention is technically characterized by mainly comprising a system platform, an Internet website subsystem, a call platform subsystem, an Internet aged-people interaction subsystem, a 120 first-aid supplementary information service subsystem, a home delivery logistics subsystem, home service scheduling subsystem and a call termination subsystem, wherein the call termination subsystem mainly comprises a computer, dual tone multi-frequency signal receiving and transmitting equipment, a telephone terminal and computer software. The family endowment service system constructed with the method can be used as an integrated network service system in the community and further as a digital information platform. The method of the invention is not only a special method applied to a special object but also a general method for constructing an information processing and transmission system serving the public. For example, the method of the invention can be used for constructing the full-coverage all-direction resource sharing life insurance service system.

The invention discloses a method for delivering goods by using a password locker. The method comprises the following steps that: a courier first inputs a user ID of an owner and mobile phone numbers of the own and the courier, and selects a locker number according to feedback use state information of each locker; a central control unit automatically opens a corresponding locker door; when the goods are placed in the locker and the locker door is closed well, the courier prints a goods deposit information voucher, and sends locker number information of the deposited goods and a goods fetching password to the owner through a mobile phone short message platform; when receiving the short message and preparing to fetch the goods, the owner inputs the user ID and the goods fetching password, and pays according to feedback payment information; the central control unit automatically opens the locker door after receiving the payment information; and the owner prints a goods fetching information voucher after taking the goods out and closing the locker door well. The method can not only improve delivery efficiency, but also avoid potential safety hazard caused by home delivery.

Customers corresponding to a consignor sending a package and a consignee receiving the package install home delivery boxes at their homes, respectively. Information can be transmitted and received through a network between customer terminals and a terminal of a home delivery carrier delivering the package. In the manner described herein, even if the consignor and the consignee are not at their homes, the home delivery carrier can unlock the home delivery boxes by using a memory card to pick up the package from and put the package into the boxes.

The method and apparatus disclosed herein empowers the general population to deliver e-commerce orders from retail stores to buyers. Embodiments of the invention reduce overall fuel usage, creating value for all members of the value chain: reduction in delivery fees for buyer, higher customer satisfaction and purchasing of goods for retailers, and the ability to earn extra income for patrons that deliver the orders. The method and apparatus comprise a database of patrons to perform home or local delivery of e-commerce orders, a database of e-commerce orders from stores, a database of buyers who place the orders, and computer instructions to match acceptable orders with patrons.

In a door-lock-opening method for a home delivery locker which includes a home delivery locker and a managing company that are connected to each other through a line, the managing company controlling depositing and taking-out processes of the home delivery locker, a person who wishes to take out a parcel addressed to the person from the home delivery locker is allowed to communicate with the managing company through a mobile terminal such as a mobile telephone, and in the case when the company has confirmed that the person who made contact therewith is a registered user of the home delivery locker, the company releases the lock of the door of the home delivery locker housing the parcel. In conventional home delivery lockers, the card received from the managing company is read by the card reader that is built in the home delivery locker so as to release the lock of the door; therefore, the resulting problem is that, if a resident is not carrying the card, or if the resident has lost the card, he or she cannot take out the corresponding parcel even after he or she has found the notice on his or her arrival. The present invention makes it possible to solve this problem.

A fully upholstered, ready-to-assemble article of furniture which may be custom ordered by a consumer, packaged by the seller for shipment to the consumer by a parcel delivery service, and then assembled by the consumer from the packaged components. The article of furniture includes a frame of a plurality of interlocking, planar frame members which are secured together by fasteners received in push-in connector elements. Upholstery coverings, the design of which is custom selected by the consumer, are attached to the frame and secured to one another by hook and loop fasteners. Foam elements are received within a second plurality of upholstery covers which have large openings for receiving the foam elements to provide cushions for the article of furniture. The frame members, upholstery covers, and foam elements are packaged in first, second, and third containers, respectively, which are each light enough to be shipped for home delivery by a parcel delivery service.

In this invention a portable credit card reader device for a home delivery service provide a system to settle amount money for merchandise by a credit card immediately. The portable card reader device (22) performs storing credit card inquiry information and freight information of plurality of consumers that exist in certain delivery area at the hard disk (54), reading information of settlement credit card for settlement by the card reader (47), and inputting the method of payment for the amount money for merchandise by the keyboard (51) when the merchandise is handed to a consumer, performing credit inquiry based on the stored credit card inquiry information of the plurality of the consumer and the read settlement card information of above said consumer at a control unit (55), and settling the amount money for the merchandise according to freight information when the settlement credit card is valid as a result of credit card inquiry.

In a user notification system used for a home delivery locker which a home delivery locker and a managing center for managing the home delivery locker are connected through a communication line, and information indicating that the home delivery locker has a parcel is received by the managing center, the system is characterized in that, based upon information of the receiver contained in the information, the managing center or the home delivery locker automatically delivers the parcel delivery information to the receiver through communication means such as telephone (including mobile telephone), facsimile and electronic mail. In the case of a conventional pick-up process of a parcel, it is not possible to confirm whether or not any parcel has arrived, until the receiver has come home and see a notice inside the mail post; therefore, the resulting problem is that, in the case of any urgent parcel, the receiver has to go to the mail box many times to see whether there is any notice therein. The present system makes it possible to solve such a problem.

A home delivery contractor 10 enters into an affiliation contract with a credit card company 12 and also enters into a merchandise price collection consignment contract with a merchandise seller 14. If a consumer 16 orders merchandise 18 with the merchandise seller 14 on the Internet, then the merchandise seller 14 makes a request to the home delivery contractor 10 for home delivery. Upon receipt of the delivered merchandise 18, the consumer 16 passes to the home delivery contractor 10 a credit card 20 of the credit card company 12 who has entered into the affiliation contract with the home delivery contractor 10, whereby the home delivery contractor 10 settles the price for the merchandise 18 with a portable card reader device 22.

A novel method and apparatus for effectuating outsourcing components of the complex processes of underwriting, implementation and administration of a novel low cost healthcare delivery plan to offshore locations, comprising of a computer network of plurality of computer terminals that integrate the conventional processes with new processes that allow seamless implementation of home country emergency inpatient and essential healthcare services, with low cost offshore services that include, i) elective medical procedures performed at offshore accredited hospitals, ii) back office administrative support, ii) 24 / 7 customer support, iii) 24 / 7 online physician support, iv) importation and home delivery of approved prescription drugs, and v) travel support to the offshore destination.The method discloses first ever computer / apparatus that enables two disparate transnational insurance systems to deploy their different algorithms to output a single low health insurance premium to the healthcare buyers, and enables an open marketplace for insurance / reinsurance underwriters, brokers, caregivers and facilitators.

The invention discloses an e-commerce platform transaction system and method based on a mobile terminal. The e-commerce platform transaction system comprises a merchant client, a user client and a background server, the merchant client is provided with an entity merchant joining module, an online store management module, a commodity management module and an address management module; and the userclient is provided with a commodity selecting and purchasing module, a 3D virtual try-on module, a shop route prompting module, a payment module, a commodity distribution module and a personal information input module. The operation mode provided by the invention is different from a traditional in-store consumption mode and is also different from a traditional e-commerce mode, takes a mobile terminal as a carrier and joins an offline clothing physical store to an online e-commerce platform; the commodity discount information, online 3D virtual try-on and online convenient services of the storeare published online in real time through the platform, and meanwhile, the try-on, purchase, home delivery, exchange and other services of the physical store corresponding to the online are providedoffline.

The invention relates to the technical field of an E-shop, in particular to a convenient and fast E-shop system which can combine with communities, shops, etc. Compared with the prior art, the E-shopsystem combines with service items correlative to life, such as shopping streets, community services, movies, games, and the like, provides an online trading platform for merchandise, and provides face-to-face trade for the merchandise and after-sale services. By adopting on-line shopping or reserving, the E-shop system uniformly examines, verifies, bargains and purchases the merchandise. Using amember registration system set on the network, the E-shop system can realize home-delivery service at the communities or family-run shops, can adopt cash transaction and on-line payment mode, can setup community service points at each resident community or residential area, has the advantages of convenient and fast shopping, safe and reliable transaction and the like, has stable after-sale services protection, can be taken as supermarkets at the door of home, and leads each consumer to experience the enjoyment and the convenience of the on-line shopping.

The invention provides an intelligent cargo delivering and collecting device of an unmanned aerial vehicle and an implementation method, which sufficiently utilize the modern network and the artificial intelligence technology. The intelligent cargo delivering and collecting device comprises a delivering aerial vehicle, a dropping cargo delivering and collecting intelligent device assembly and an intelligent cargo delivering and collecting implementation method; the delivering aerial vehicle is suspended in the mid air to intelligently carry out cargo packet delivering or collecting operation and repeated landing and taking-off working manners of the unmanned aerial vehicle are changed; the device is more convenient, more efficient and safer and realizes intelligent direct delivery; the investment of manpower and material resources of secondary handover, transportation and home delivery of cargo packets can also be greatly and effectively reduced, so that the cost is saved and resources are saved. Especially, aiming at current situations of social development and modern living manners, the delivering aerial vehicle is suspended in the air and the cargo packets can be rapidly and directly transferred and can be easily, conveniently, directly and intelligently collected and delivered; the intelligent cargo delivering and collecting device can give better services to old people, dwelling people and people working and living in high-rise buildings, and can also be adaptive to outdoor consumption requirements of people at anytime and anywhere and meet the fashion psychology of pursuing high-tech content and following time trend of young people.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle distribution system oriented to a community, and a distribution method. The unmanned aerial vehicle distribution system comprises a background information system, an automatic unmanned cabinet, an unmanned aerial vehicle, an outdoor home-installed cargo receiving device, a cloud database and a user terminal APP, wherein the background informationsystem receives and processes order form information and confirms an order form distribution state, controls the order form scheduling queue of the automatic unmanned cabinet, controls the distribution order form scheduling queue of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and plans the track path of the unmanned aerial vehicle; the automatic unmanned cabinet stores a target cargo on an appointed position, schedules the target cargo to the unmanned aerial vehicle, or receives the cargo delivery of the unmanned aerial vehicle; the unmanned aerial vehicle distributes the target cargo to a target distribution position according to the track path, and delivers the target cargo to the outdoor home-installed cargo receiving device, or flies to the target distribution position according to the track path forloading the target cargo and returning; the outdoor home-installed cargo receiving device receives the target cargo; and the cloud database stores and calls the data. By use of the unmanned aerial vehicle distribution system, completely-unmanned terminal unmanned aerial vehicle distribution is realized, express package distribution efficiency is improved, service quality is improved, and a purpose of home delivery is truly realized.

Disclosed are a method and a system for providing a public facility rental service using a biometric identity card. According to the present invention, an on-site reservation request or an Internet reservation request for a public facility rental service is inputted via an on-site reservation device or via the Internet, an on-site reservation process or an Internet reservation process for the public facility rental service is performed, a request for user identification is inputted, user identification is performed, on-site-reserved or Internet-reserved public facilities are rented out to the authenticated user, and processes for public facility rental fee-charging, returning, theft counteraction, fault counteraction, storage, home delivery and the like are performed through user identification using a biometric identity and a public certificate. Thus, the public facility rental service is provided in a convenient and safe manner through user authentication using a biometric identity.

A customer terminal (10), a management server (20) of a home delivery company having the Web function, and a host computer (30) are connected to one another by the Internet (5). The customer terminal (10) open s a Web site by the browser function of a first setup CD-ROM and selects various software keys of the Web site so as to transfer parcel sender information, parcel receiver information, and a bill number from the Internet server (20) and acquire a duplicate thermal slip (K1), an A4 invoice (K2), a mail label (K3), a certificate of parcel delivery (K4), and a destination list (K5). Moreover, a second setup CD-ROM is used to periodically download from the management server (20) various data of the customer side (all return information of the company, cargo data, mail data, e-collect data, fare data, etc.) and display the data in a predetermined format. When a period (year, month, date) is input, the customer terminal (10) receives the fare data of the company, e-collect data, parcel delivery data, mail data, e-collect transfer data, fare demand data, and the like during the specified period.

The invention provides a community-based things and logistics information management system, comprising a call center, a logistics management subsystem, a logistics information exchange subsystem and a plurality of community-based service networks and mobile terminals, wherein the call center is used for the communication between customers and logistics, providing logistics position for customers in real time and sending a two-dimensional identification code of goods to customers when goods arrive at the destination; the logistics management subsystem is used for managing logistics companies and allocating the two-dimensional identification code of goods, the mobile terminals and the like unifiedly and the mobile terminals are used for reading the two-dimensional identification code information of goods and the logistics position; the logistics information exchange subsystem is used for monitoring the logistics goods in real time and providing the position query information of goods; and the community-based service networks are used for receiving the goods sent by logistics companies to the community, sending the received goods information to the call center and providing the logistic routine work of picking up goods by customers, home delivery service, delivering goods and the like. The community-based service networks are responsible for sales of outgoing call of sales entity of the call center. The system utilizes the internet technology and the two-dimensional code recognition technology to realize the separation of customers and logistics companies, provides guarantee to personal information security of customers and lowers the logistic cost.

The invention relates to an integrated system composed of a cloud computing unit, a central large kitchen unit and a cooking robot unit. A cloud communication module of the cloud computing unit stores 999 dish cooking procedures, records dietary requirements of users and can support that the users order cooking ingredients by using mobile phones; the cloud computing unit further includes an optimization module, can conduct rank ordering on a plurality of cooking robots to achieve optimal allocation, and brings convenience to dish cooking for the users; the central large kitchen unit is connected with the cloud computing unit, the problem about cooking ingredient safety can be solved for users, the cloud communication module sends orders of the users to a server module of the central large kitchen unit, centralized purchase is achieved according to all the orders of the users, industrialized washing-cutting-distributing storehouse is adopted, dishes are distributed according to the standard amount, and the cold-chain home delivery is adopted in whole process; the cooking robot unit can be linked with a data port of the cloud computing unit and a data port of the central large kitchen unit so that the problem that cooking is not good can be solved for domestic consumers.

In a mobile communication system using Mobile IP, a mobile terminal (10) determines a main home agent (50-1) and a main home address. When the mobile terminal (10) moves to a network (2) with different service forms, the home address used on the moved-in area network is registered as the initial care-of address to be sent to the main home agent (50-1), thus When accessing from a network other than the belonging area network (2), communication can be performed by using this primary home address. Even on the Internet which is a distributed network, incoming calls from the outside can be flexibly handled by using representative home addresses.

The invention discloses video shopping. The video shopping is a novel shopping method of a network shopping website. The video shopping is characterized in that a novel website is created; a set of voice video software system which can be used through connection and has perfect performance is installed in the website; through a remote voice video, a customer can watch real commodities in a real store of a merchant; after the customer carries out remote voice video conversation with the merchant and a commodity transaction intention is achieved, the customer examines commodity quality at the real store and purchases the commodities, or the merchant provides a home delivery service, the customer examines commodity quality and purchases the commodities; the customer which is far away from the merchant can complete the transaction through an ''online shopping'' mode. The video shopping has the following main function that the merchant in the real life remotely sales the commodities in the store to the customer through the set of voice video software system.

The invention relates to an automatic cruise vending machine, a vending system and a vending method. The automatic cruise vending machine comprises a vending machine cabinet body for holding goods; wheels arranged on the bottom portion of the vending machine cabinet body; a driving module connected with the wheels and used for driving the wheels to rotate and turn; a navigation module for navigating the vending machine; and a battery pack power supply module arranged in the vending machine cabinet body and used for providing power for the vending machine. The vending machine can realize automatic cruise, and can automatically move to the places of users to provide goods for the users, thereby providing a home delivery service and improving purchasing experience of the users.

The invention discloses an intelligent express receiving safety door. The intelligent express receiving safety door comprises a door body, wherein a battery, an electronic door lock, an electromagnet,a lifting motor, an output motor, a scanner, a wireless module, a binocular camera, an infrared sensor, a loudspeaker, a sound pick-up, a digital to analog converter and a controller are arranged inthe door body; the sound pick-up, the loudspeaker, the infrared sensor, the binocular camera, the wireless module, the scanner, the lifting motor, the output motor, the electromagnet and the electronic door lock are respectively in communication connection with the digital to analog converter, and the digital to analog converter is in communication connection with the controller; the wireless module is in communication connection with a server and a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal is a user terminal, and the server is used for collecting, calculating and feeding back the parameters and instructions sent by the controller, so as to obtain the remote control function. The intelligent express receiving safety door has the advantages that the one-station type service function with home delivery service of expresses is realized, and the convenience and timeliness are realized for a user; for a user who always has visitor visiting, network purchase and take-out, the convenience is realized.

Efficient and timely deliveries to residential customers are good business. Hot pizza generates tips. Cold pizza, a result of a time consuming search for the residential customer is time consuming, expensive and frustrating for delivery personnel. A method of expediting delivery service to residence target locations comprises the steps of: providing an illuminated sign having a delivering service company's indicia thereon; and, positioning the illuminated sign on an interior side of a front window glass at one of the target delivery locations. A preferred aspect of this method further comprises the step of providing a remotely controlled activator and alarm within the illuminated sign so that the illuminated sign would additionally flash and sound an alarm when the remotely controlled activator was activated by delivery personnel entering the proximate area of the sign. The flashing would make the sign more recognizable to delivery personnel, and the alarm would indicate to the recipients that a delivery was imminent.

The present invention permits a data related to a destination used in an order reception operation of a goods delivery service to be acquired from an address information stored in an address information file retained in a portable electronic terminal, thus leading to utilization of the address information stored in the address information file as the data related to the destination used in the order reception operation of the goods delivery service. Thereby, a manual input of addresses, etc., in a product sales data processing system can be saved. Accordingly, a store with installation of the sales data processing system will achieve shortening of operation time, improvement of work efficiency, and reduction of mistakes, and a customer who owns the portable electronic terminal will be able to enjoy enhancement of the convenience and serviceability.