Resource delivery
AssigneeCityTaps SAS
InventorsLaurent Savaëte, Grégoire Auguste Landel, Miranda Phua
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for delivering resources. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of based on measurements of amounts of a resource that are delivered from one or more supply outlets against amounts of value of electronic prepayments that have been authorized by corresponding users of mobile devices for the delivery of the resource at the one or more supply outlets, causing the one or more supply outlets to enable delivery of the resource in aggregate amounts that are not outside amounts of value of electronic prepayments that have been authorized by the corresponding users of mobile devices for the delivery of the resource.
Claims22
An apparatus comprising:
- a server system that controls water to be dispensed at water supply outlets to end users at distributed geographic locations, the server system comprising:
- one or more processors that determine amounts of water for dispensing by the water supply outlets based on prepayment information of end users, the prepayment information being received from at least one electronic payment system,
- wherein one of the one or more processors of the server system causes sending a command to one of the water supply outlets to cause the water supply outlet to dispense one or more of the amounts of water,
- the server system being configured to receive the prepayment information as a message conforming to one or both of a short message service (SMS) format or a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) message via an application interface of the server system,
- wherein the server system comprises an application interface configured to suggest, to one of the end users, how much water for the end user to request for dispensing based on information representative of prior amounts of usage of the water supply outlets.
An apparatus comprising:
- a server system that controls water to be dispensed at water supply outlets to end users at distributed geographic locations, the server system comprising:
- one or more processors that determine amounts of water for dispensing by the water supply outlets based on prepayment information of end users, the prepayment information being received from at least one electronic payment system,
- wherein one of the one or more processors of the server system sends a command to one of the water supply outlets to cause the water supply outlet to dispense one or more of the amounts of water,
- wherein the at least one electronic payment system comprises a mobile banking services account system, wherein the server system receives the prepayment information via the mobile banking services account system
- wherein the server system comprises an application interface configured to suggest, to an end user of the end user, how much water for the end user to request for dispensing based on information representative of prior amounts of usage of the water supply outlets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.