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US 10,949,794 B2Granted
Device and method for product delivery interception
AssigneeMastercard International Incorporated
InventorsAshutosh Kumar Gupta, Nishant Maheshwari, Ajay Nehra
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Abstract
Herein disclosed is a method and system to perform product delivery interception. In one implementation, a product delivery interceptor receives, from a purchaser, a request to determine availability of a product. The product delivery interceptor identifies a recipient of the product and transmits a bid for the product for consideration by the recipient. The product delivery interceptor acquires the recipient response to the bid and conveys an instruction to reroute delivery of the product to the purchaser if the recipient response indicates acceptance of the bid.
Claims20
A product delivery interceptor server comprising:
- at least one processor;
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- an input port coupled to the processor, the input port configured to prompt a purchaser, on a payment page for a product on a merchant application, that the product is planned for delivery to a recipient;
- and
- an output port coupled to the processor, the output port configured to transmit a bid for the product by the purchaser;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the product delivery interceptor server to:
- identify the recipient of the product;
- filter requests for the product planned for delivery to the recipient based on proximity of an address of the recipient to an address of the purchaser;
- transmit, through the output port to an application on an electronic computing device of the recipient, the bid for consideration by the recipient by forwarding only the filtered requests for which the address of the recipient is in proximity to the address of the purchaser;
- acquire, through the input port, a recipient response to the bid;
- and
- convey, through the output port to a courier, an instruction to reroute delivery of the product to the purchaser on determining that the recipient response indicates acceptance of the bid, wherein the courier is configured to deliver the product to the purchaser, based on the instruction, as part of an already planned delivery along a delivery route on determining that the address of the purchaser is along the delivery route.
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A product delivery interceptor server comprising:
- at least one processor;
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- an input port coupled to the processor, the input port configured to receive a notification that a product is to be delivered to a recipient;
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- an output port coupled to the processor, the output port configured to transmit a bid for the product,
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the product delivery interceptor server at least to:
- identify a purchaser of the product;
- filter requests for the product to be delivered to the recipient based on proximity of an address of the recipient to an address of the purchaser;
- forward, through the output port on a payment page for the product on a merchant application, the notification to the purchaser that the product is to be delivered to the recipient;
- receive, through the input port, the bid from the purchaser;
- transmit, through the output port to an application on an electronic computing device of the recipient, the bid for consideration by the recipient by forwarding only the filtered requests for which the address of the recipient is in proximity to the address of the purchaser;
- acquire, through the input port, the recipient response to the bid;
- and
- convey, through the output port to a courier, an instruction to reroute the delivery of the product from the recipient to the purchaser on determining that the recipient response indicates acceptance of the bid, wherein the courier is configured to deliver the product to the purchaser based on the instruction as part of an already planned delivery along a delivery route on determining that the address of the purchaser is along the delivery route.
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A product delivery interception method comprising:
- receiving, from an application on an electronic computing device of a purchaser, a request to determine availability of a product;
- identifying a recipient of the product;
- filtering requests for the product planned for delivery to the recipient based on proximity of an address of the recipient to an address of the purchaser;
- transmitting, to an application on an electronic computing device of the recipient, a bid for the product for consideration by the recipient by forwarding only the filtered requests for which the address of the recipient is in proximity to the address of the purchaser;
- acquiring, the recipient response to the bid;
- and
- conveying, to a courier, an instruction to reroute delivery of the product to the purchaser on determining that the recipient response indicates acceptance of the bid, wherein the courier is configured to deliver the product to the purchaser based on the instruction as part of an already planned delivery along a delivery route on determining that the address of the purchaser is along the delivery route.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.