Browser-Based Order Tracking Aggregation Across Shipping Providers

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users have to visit multiple shipping provider websites and enter tracking identifiers separately to check the status of multiple shipments, which is inefficient and cumbersome.

Innovation Solution

A web browser integrates a mechanism to automatically identify shipping providers and tracking identifiers from URLs, storing this information and retrieving shipment statuses without user interaction, allowing centralized tracking across multiple providers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users visit multiple shipping provider websites separately to check order statuses, then each order status can be obtained accurately, but the time required and operational complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveorder status information accuracyVSAvoidtime to check multiple orders

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate order tracking operations into a single unified interface. The system aggregates tracking information from multiple shipping providers and displays all order statuses on one webpage, allowing users to check multiple orders simultaneously without visiting separate websites, thus resolving the contradiction between information accuracy and time efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically retrieving and storing tracking information for multiple orders in advance. The webpage is pre-populated with tracking identifiers and shipping provider data, so when the user accesses the page, the information is already prepared and can be displayed immediately without requiring sequential user actions for each order

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If users manually enter tracking identifiers for each order, then accurate tracking information can be obtained, but the operational effort and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetracking information accuracyVSAvoidease of checking multiple orders

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically identifying and retrieving tracking identifiers without requiring user input. The webpage extracts tracking information from shipping confirmation emails or stored data, and the system autonomously queries shipping providers for status updates, eliminating the need for users to manually enter tracking identifiers for each order while maintaining information accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The tracking system is designed with multi-functionality to handle various shipping providers and order types through a single interface. It can automatically recognize different tracking identifier formats, query multiple shipping carriers, and present unified results, making the system universally applicable to diverse tracking scenarios without requiring separate manual entry procedures for each case

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12547968B2Independently presenting status of order

Publication Date: 2026.02.10 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A method can include identifying a tracking identifier in a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request or response by analyzing the request or the response, storing the tracking identifier, independent of rendered browsing activity, requesting a status of an item associated with the tracking identifier, the status indicating a location of the item, receiving the status, and providing the status for display.