Group Order Payment Segmentation for Drone Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
In systems where multiple individuals simultaneously order items for delivery via drones or self-driving vehicles, existing technologies complicate the process of determining and managing payment amounts among group members, leading to confusion and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
An order processing system and method that allows multiple users to collectively receive and manage orders, featuring a terminal with a processor and memory to sort and settle items individually for each user, displaying payment information and enabling easy payment processing, with options for allocating delivery fees based on item quantities or weights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a representative collectively places orders for multiple persons using a mobile device terminal, then delivery efficiency is improved by loading items onto one delivery vehicle, but payment management becomes complicated and confusing for each person
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the collective order into individual user orders, with each user seeing and paying only for their own items. The system divides the payment process by user, displaying separate payment amounts for each person rather than showing a single collective amount that requires manual division and payment collection.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device terminal acts as an intermediary that automatically calculates, divides, and manages payments among multiple users. The terminal receives collective order information, automatically segments it by user, calculates individual payment amounts, and handles the payment process, eliminating the need for manual payment coordination among users.
2Ease of operation
If multiple users place orders simultaneously through individual terminals, then payment management becomes simple and clear for each user, but delivery efficiency decreases requiring multiple delivery vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual user orders into a single collective delivery when feasible. The system determines whether multiple users' orders can be combined into one delivery vehicle load, and if so, consolidates them while maintaining separate payment processing for each user, thus achieving both individual payment clarity and collective delivery efficiency.
3Ease of operation
If delivery fees are allocated equally among users, then payment calculation is simple, but fairness decreases when users order different quantities or weights of items
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different delivery fee allocation methods based on local conditions - specifically, based on each user's order characteristics (quantity, weight, volume). The system calculates delivery fees proportionally according to each user's share of the total order, ensuring that users who order more pay a larger portion of the delivery fee, thereby achieving fairness while maintaining automated calculation.
Data Source
AI summary
The order processing system S receives the designation of the number of ordering users related to the group order, receives the selection of items related to the order, sorts the selected items for each of as many users as the designated number of the users, and performs settlement for the sorted items.