Distributed networked laundry machine control and operation
AssigneeClarified Inc.
InventorTristan Scott Patterson
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Abstract
Methods, system and apparatus for the scheduling the retrieval, delivery and laundering of customer loads of laundry. The system may receive laundry service orders from customer, schedule couriers or delivery services for the transportation of bags of laundry from the customer to a washer located at a laundry facility. The washer may be located at a residential laundry facility or a commercial laundry facility. The system may provide the washer with instruction for performing the laundering tasks and track the progress of each load of laundry through the process by having the washer scan unique identifiers attached to the laundry bags, washing machines and dryers.
Claims20
A system to manage a laundry service platform, the system comprising:
- a mobile application, operating on multiple client devices, wherein the mobile application comprises a user interface;
- one or more servers configured to perform the operations of:
- receive a laundry service order associated with one or more laundry bags, the service order being received from a client device from a first user;
- determine, by the one or more servers, a washer score for multiple washer users;
- generate a ranked list of the multiple washer users;
- generate an order offer notification for each of the washer users in the ranked list of washers;
- transmit to the multiple client devices of the washer users in the ranked list the order offer notification;
- receive, from one of the multiple client devices, an order acceptance notification, from a first washer user;
- and
- generate a first delivery service request to the first washer user.
A method to manage a laundry service platform, comprising the operations of:
- receiving a laundry service order associated with one or more laundry bags, the service order being received from a client device of a first user;
- determining a washer score for multiple washer users;
- generating a ranked list of the multiple washer users;
- generating an order offer notification for each of the washer users in the ranked list of washers;
- transmitting to multiple client devices of the washer users in the ranked list an order offer notification;
- receiving, from one of the multiple client devices, an order acceptance notification, from a first washer user;
- and
- generating a first delivery service request to the first washer user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.