Mobile device for delivery of cash and goods by a delivery service
OwnerPatricia A. Walker, Ralph E. Jockeinventors
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Abstract
A mobile device configured to be carried by a user enables the user to wirelessly request delivery of tangible items including cash and goods. The mobile device is usable to request delivery of at least one tangible item at a user specified delivery location through communication with at least one remote system. The mobile device is operable to confirm user agreement with transaction details including the deliverable items, delivery location and the amount of value to be assessed to a user account for the items. Confirmation that the user agrees with the transaction details causes the tangible items to be delivered at the specified location and the account to be assessed the amount.
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Apparatus comprising
- a mobile device configured to be carried by a user, wherein the mobile device includes
- at least one input device,
- at least one output device,
- at least one wireless transceiver,
- at least one circuit including at least one data store, wherein the at least one input device, the at least one output device and the at least one wireless transceiver are in operative connection with the at least one circuit,
- wherein the at least one data store includes identification data usable to determine a user financial account to which value may be assessed,
- wherein the at least one circuit is operative to cause
- a) the at least one input device to be operable to enable receipt of at least one user input selecting at least one tangible item for delivery, wherein the at least one tangible item includes cash,
- b) responsive to at least one user input to the at least one input device received in (a), the mobile device to send at least one wireless message, wherein the at least one wireless message includes data indicative of the at least one tangible item, a delivery location for the at least one tangible item, and the identification data, wherein the data included in the at least one wireless message is receivable by a remote system,
- c) subsequent to at least a portion of (b), the mobile device to be enabled to receive at least one wireless message that is sent responsive at least in part to operation of the remote system, wherein the at least one received message includes transaction details including data corresponding to an amount of value associated with delivery of the at least one tangible item at the delivery location,
- d) responsive at least in part to the at least one wireless message received in (c), the at least one output device to output indicia that corresponds to at least some of the transaction details,
- e) subsequent to (d), the at least one input device to be enabled to receive at least one user input indicative of the user agreeing with the transaction details,
- f) responsive at least in part to the at least one user input received in (e), the mobile device to be enabled to wirelessly send at least one message indicative of the user agreeing with the transaction details,
- whereby the remote transaction system is operative responsive at least in part to the at least one wireless message sent in (f) to cause the financial account to be assessed the amount of value and the at least one tangible item to be delivered to the delivery location.
Apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device configured to be carried by a user, wherein the mobile device includes
- at least one input device,
- at least one output device,
- at least one wireless transceiver,
- at least one circuit including at least one data store, wherein the at least one input device, the at least one output device and the at least one wireless transceiver are in operative connection with the at least one circuit,
- wherein the at least one data store includes identification data usable to determine a financial account to which value may be assessed,
- wherein the at least one circuit is operative to cause
- a) the at least one input device to be operable to enable receipt of at least one user input selecting at least one tangible item for delivery, wherein the at least one tangible item includes cash in an amount corresponding to the at least one user input,
- b) responsive to at least one user input to the at least one input device received in (a), the mobile device to send at least one wireless message, wherein the at least one wireless message includes data indicative of the at least one tangible item, a delivery location for the at least one tangible item and the identification data, wherein the data included in the at least one wireless message is receivable by a remote system,
- c) subsequent to at least a portion of (b), the mobile device to be enabled to receive at least one wireless message that is sent responsive at least in part to operation of the remote system, wherein the at least one received message includes at least one transaction detail, wherein the at least one transaction detail includes data corresponding to an amount of value associated with delivery of the at least one tangible item at the delivery location,
- d) responsive at least in part to the at least one wireless message received in (c), the at least one output device to output indicia that corresponds to the at least one transaction detail,
- e) subsequent to (d), the at least one input device to be enabled to receive at least one user input indicative of the user agreeing with the at least one transaction detail,
- f) responsive at least in part to the at least one user input received in (e), the mobile device to be enabled to wirelessly send at least one message indicative of the user agreeing with the at least one transaction detail,
- whereby the remote transaction system is operative responsive at least in part to the at least one wireless message sent in (f) to cause the financial account to be assessed the amount of value and the at least one tangible item to be delivered at the delivery location.
Apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device configured to be carried by a user, wherein the mobile device includes
- at least one input device,
- at least one output device,
- at least one wireless transceiver,
- at least one circuit including at least one data store, wherein the at least one input device, the at least one output device and the at least one wireless transceiver are in operative connection with the at least one circuit,
- wherein the at least one data store includes identification data usable to determine an account to which value may be assessed,
- wherein the at least one circuit is operative to cause
- a) the at least one input device to be operable to enable receipt of at least one user input selecting at least one tangible item for delivery, wherein the at least one tangible item includes cash,
- b) responsive to the at least one user input to the at least one input device received in (a), the mobile device to send at least one wireless message, wherein the at least one wireless message includes data indicative of the at least one tangible item, a location at which the at least one tangible item is to be delivered, and the identification data, wherein data corresponding to the data included in the at least one wireless message is receivable by a remote system,
- c) subsequent to at least a portion of (b), the mobile device to be enabled to receive at least one wireless message that is sent responsive at least in part to operation of the remote system, wherein the at least one received wireless message includes data corresponding to transaction details including data corresponding to an amount of value to be assessed to the account associated with delivery of the at least one tangible item at the location,
- d) responsive at least in part to the at least one wireless message received in (c), the at least one output device to output indicia that corresponds to at least some of the transaction details including the amount of value to be assessed to the account,
- e) subsequent to (d), the at least one input device to be enabled to receive at least one user input indicative of a user agreement with the transaction details including assessment of the amount of value to the account,
- f) responsive at least in part to the at least one user input received in (e), the mobile device to be enabled to wirelessly send at least one message indicative of the user agreement with the transaction details including assessment of the amount of value to the account,
- whereby the remote transaction system is operative responsive at least in part to the at least one wireless message sent in (f) to cause the account to be assessed the amount of value and the at least one tangible item to be delivered at the delivery location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.