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US 11,769,220 B2Granted
Examples of delivery and/or referral services
AssigneeCfph, LLC
InventorsHoward W. Lutnick, Jed Kleckner, Colin Sims, Jason White
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Abstract
Various systems and methods that may relate to referral and/or delivery services are described. Some embodiments may include billing merchants for delivery services in a consolidated fashion, some embodiments may include interactions with point of sale systems.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a first computing device configured to control:
- receiving, over a communication network, from a first merchant an indication of a first plurality of orders for which respective first customers have requested delivery, in which the first plurality of orders originates from one or more additional computing devices separate from the first computing device, and in which the first merchant has a first account with a delivery/referral service;
- in response to receiving a first order of the first plurality of orders,
- determining an unavailability result, by determining whether at least one first item of the first order is unavailable for delivery based on a condition on delivery of the at least one first item using location information received in substantially real time, via the communication network, from substantially real time tracking of location of a mobile device of at least one mobile delivery agent, and
- displaying, via transmission over the communication network, on a graphical user interface of a point of sale system of the first merchant, an indication whether the at least one first item is determined to be unavailable for delivery based on the unavailability result;
- facilitating respective delivery of the first plurality of orders to the respective first customers, including transmitting, to the one or more additional computing devices, delivery radius information so as to cause the one or more additional computing devices to display a delivery radius for each of the first plurality of orders;
- receiving, over the communication network, from a second merchant an indication of a second plurality of orders for which respective second customers have requested delivery, in which the second plurality of orders originate from one or more second additional computing devices separate from the first computing device, and in which the second merchant has a second account with the delivery/referral service;
- in response to receiving a second order of the second plurality of orders, communicating, over the communication network, to a point of sale system of the second merchant that at least one second item of the second order is unavailable based on the second order;
- facilitating respective delivery of the second plurality of orders to the respective second customers;
- paying respective delivery agents for performing the respective first and second deliveries of the first and second plurality of orders to the respective first and second customers;
- determining a first consolidated bill for the first merchant for the respective deliveries of the first plurality of orders to the respective first customers based on respective delivery costs of the first plurality of orders;
- and
- determining a second consolidated bill for the second merchant for the respective deliveries of the second plurality of orders to the respective second customers based on respective delivery costs of the second plurality of orders.
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A method comprising:
- controlling, by at least one processor:
- receiving, over a communication network, from a first merchant an indication of a first plurality of orders for which respective first customers have requested delivery, in which the first plurality of orders originate from one or more additional computing devices that do not include the at least one processor and in which the first merchant has a first account with a delivery/referral service;
- in response to receiving a first order of the first plurality of orders,
- determining an unavailability result, by determining whether at least one first item of the first order is unavailable for delivery based on a condition on delivery of the at least one first item using location information received in substantially real time, via the communication network, from substantially real time tracking of location of a mobile device of at least one mobile delivery agent, and
- displaying, via transmission over the communication network, on a graphical user interface of a point of sale system of the first merchant, an indication whether the at least one first item is determined to be unavailable for delivery based on the unavailability result;
- facilitating respective delivery of the first plurality of orders to the respective first customers, including transmitting, to the one or more additional computing devices, delivery radius information so as to cause the one or more additional computing devices to display a delivery radius for each of the first plurality of orders;
- receiving, over the communication network, from a second merchant an indication of a second plurality of orders for which respective second customers have requested delivery, in which the second plurality of orders originate from one or more second computing devices that do not include the at least one processor, and in which the second merchant has a second account with the delivery/referral service;
- in response to receiving a second order of the second plurality of orders, communicating to a point of sale system of the second merchant that at least one second item of the second order is unavailable based on the second order;
- facilitating respective delivery of the second plurality of orders to the respective second customers;
- paying respective delivery agents for performing the respective first and second deliveries of the first and second plurality of orders to the respective first and second customers;
- determining a first consolidated bill for the first merchant for the respective deliveries of the first plurality of orders to the respective first customers based on respective delivery costs of the first plurality of orders;
- and
- determining a second consolidated bill for the second merchant for the respective deliveries of the second plurality of orders to the respective second customers based on respective delivery costs of the second plurality of orders.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.