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US 10,997,545 B1Granted
Package tracking utilizing active delivery tags
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorChinmay Hemant Bhagwat
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Abstract
In some examples, a movement range indicating a geospatial boundary for executing delivery of a package may be received by a delivery tag. The geospatial boundary may be stored by the delivery tag. A position of the delivery tag with respect to the geospatial boundary can be determined using a location sensor of the delivery tag. It may be detected that the delivery tag has moved outside the geospatial boundary, in response to which an alarm may be generated.
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A system, comprising:
- a passive identification tag of a delivery agent, the delivery agent responsible for delivering a package to a user at a delivery location, the passive identification tag enabling the delivery agent to access at least one building of a plurality of buildings in an item storage and delivery network;
- an active tag attached to and associated with the package, the active tag comprising a delivery management module configured to:
- receive a delivery movement range indicating a geospatial boundary associated with delivering the package to the user at the delivery location;
- and
- prior to an expected delivery of the package to the user at the delivery location:
- determine a position of the active tag relative to the geospatial boundary;
- based at least in part on detecting the position of the active tag being outside the geospatial boundary, generate anomaly information;
- and
- transmit a portion of the anomaly information to the passive identification tag;
- and
- a scanner located at an entrance of the at least one building of the item storage and delivery network, the scanner being configured to read the passive identification tag and to receive at least the portion of the anomaly information from the passive identification tag after the expected delivery of the package to the user at the delivery location.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a delivery management module of an active tag, a delivery movement range indicating a geospatial boundary associated with delivering a package to a user at a delivery location, wherein the active tag is attached to and associated with the package;
- prior to an expected delivery of the package to the user at the delivery location:
- determining, by the delivery management module, a position of the active tag relative to the geospatial boundary;
- based at least in part on detecting the position of the active tag being outside the geospatial boundary, generating, by the delivery management module, anomaly information;
- and
- transmitting, by the delivery management module, a portion of the anomaly information to a passive identification tag of a delivery agent responsible for delivering the package to the user at the delivery location, wherein the passive identification tag enables the delivery agent to access at least one building of a plurality of buildings in an item storage and delivery network;
- after the expected delivery of the package to the user at the delivery location:
- reading the passive identification tag by a scanner located at an entrance of the at least one building of the item storage and delivery network;
- and
- receiving, by the scanner, at least the portion of the anomaly information from the passive identification tag.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.