Cloud Logistics Delivery System Using Digital Identification for Mixed Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing logistics apparatus rental systems face inefficiencies in delivering mixedly stored apparatuses, as identifying and selecting the correct apparatuses for transfer between users is time-consuming and laborious, especially when they are of the same type and difficult to distinguish visually.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent cloud delivery method and system that allows for the uploading of identifications of selected logistics apparatuses to a server, which adjusts their ownership relationships, enabling efficient transfer without prior identification, and includes a billing method for usage periods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If logistics apparatuses of different users are mixedly stored in the same storage point, then storage space utilization is improved, but delivery efficiency deteriorates due to time-consuming and laborious selection processes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage space utilizationVSAvoiddelivery efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses digital identifiers (barcodes, QR codes, or electronic tags) to create a virtual copy of the logistics apparatus information. Instead of physically identifying each apparatus through visual inspection or manual scanning of multiple codes, the system uses these digital copies stored in a database to quickly retrieve and verify apparatus belonging information, dramatically reducing the time and labor required for selection and delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If visual identification methods (such as pasting eye-catching IDs) are used to distinguish logistics apparatuses, then selection convenience is improved, but operational complexity increases due to the need to affix and clear IDs during delivery

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveselection convenienceVSAvoidoperational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the identification function from the physical apparatus itself and relocates it to a digital database system. Instead of having physical IDs attached to each apparatus that need to be affixed and removed, the system stores apparatus identification information (including belonging relationships) in a database, allowing for instant retrieval and verification without physical manipulation of identifiers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Measurement precision

If manual scanning of codes for each logistics apparatus is performed to determine belonging, then identification accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-storing all logistics apparatus identification information and belonging relationships in a database before delivery is needed. When delivery is required, the system can instantly query the database to retrieve the belonging information of specific apparatus, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual scanning and verification processes while maintaining high identification accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11907960B2Intelligent cloud delivery and billing method and system for logistics apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.02.20 SHANGHAI HONGYAN RETURNABLE TRANSIT PACKAGINGS CO LTD
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AI summary

The application relates to the field of logistics, and discloses an intelligent cloud delivery and billing method and system for logistics apparatus to solve the problem of low delivery efficiency of the logistics apparatus in the case of mixed storage of logistics apparatuses of multiple users. In the present invention, the logistics apparatuses of a first user and other users are mixedly stored in a first area; a server receives uploaded identifications of the N logistics apparatuses, and these N logistics apparatuses are arbitrarily selected from the first area; the server adjusts the N logistics apparatuses involving in the physical delivery to belong to a second user according to the identifications of the N logistics apparatuses involving in the physical delivery, and adjusts belonging relationships of the logistics apparatuses except the N logistics apparatuses involving in the physical delivery in the first area.