Secured electronic locker system
AssigneeQuadient Technologies France
InventorsChristophe Peynet, Patrick Blanluet
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Abstract
A method for operating electronic lockers for parcel deposit and collection and pick-up wherein a remote shipping system transmits to at least one mobile device via a long distance communication network data related to parcels to be handled by at least one electronic locker and wherein a user operates the at least one electronic locker with the at least one mobile device via a short distance communication network without using a user interface of the at least one electronic locker and wherein the at least one electronic locker using the at least one mobile device via the short distance communication network transmits data related to parcels handling during the user operation of the at least one electronic locker.
Claims13
A method for operating electronic lockers for parcel deposit and collection and pick-up comprises a remote shipping system transmits to at least one mobile device via a long distance communication network data related to parcels to be handled by at least one electronic locker, wherein said at least one electronic locker comprises a pre-defined user roles table and a user roles correspondence table for associating each user to a user role and a pre-defined set of functionalities, said at least one mobile device comprises an operator storage for storing a list of electronic lockers authorized for each operator, and wherein a user operates said at least one electronic locker only with said at least one mobile device via a short distance communication network without using a user interface of said at least one electronic locker and wherein said at least one electronic locker using at least one mobile device via said short distance communication network transmits data related to parcels handling during the user operation of said at least one electronic locker and wherein, for parcel deposit by an operator, only an operator identifier of said operator or only a mobile device identifier of said at least one mobile device is transmitted by said at least one mobile device to said at least one electronic locker for allowing access with said at least one mobile device to said at least one electronic locker, and the method further comprises associating by said at least one electronic locker at least one user with a respective user role and a respective pre-defined set of functionalities using the pre-defined user roles table and the user roles correspondence table.
A method for picking-up a parcel by a recipient in at least one electronic locker wherein a remote shipping system communicates with at least one mobile device via a long distance communication network and wherein the recipient operates said at least one electronic locker with said at least one mobile device via a short distance communication network, comprising act:
- downloading onto said at least one mobile device a pick-up application that manages access by the recipient to said at least one electronic locker and which operates said at least one electronic locker, wherein said at least one mobile device comprises an operator storage for storing a list of electronic lockers authorized for each operator,
- automatically activating said pick-up application by a notification sent by said remote shipping system to said at least one mobile device, and
- receiving onto said at least one mobile device a recipient authorization code generated after the deposit of said parcel by a carrier agent in said at least one electronic locker, wherein said recipient authorization code is the only data required for opening the compartment where the parcel has been deposited and corresponds to a respective pre-defined set of functionalities via a pre-defined user roles table and a user roles correspondence table.
A computerized electronic locker system for parcel deposit and collection and pick-up, comprising:
- a remote shipping system,
- at least one electronic locker, and
- at least one mobile device communicating with said at least one electronic locker via a short distance communication network for transmitting data related to parcels handling during user operation of said at least one electronic locker and with said remote shipping system via a long distance communication network,
- wherein a user interface of said at least one mobile device is the only user interface for a user to operate said at least one electronic locker without using a user interface of said at least one electronic locker and wherein, for parcel deposit by an operator, only an operator identifier of said operator or only a mobile device identifier of said at least one mobile device is transmitted by said at least one mobile device to said at least one electronic locker for allowing access with said at least one mobile device to said at least one electronic locker, and wherein said at least one electronic locker comprises a pre-defined user roles table and a user roles correspondence table for associating each user to a user role and a pre-defined set of functionalities, wherein said at least one mobile device comprises an operator storage for storing a list of electronic lockers authorized for each operator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.