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US 12,694,363 B2Granted
Autonomous delivery
AssigneeNCR Voyix Corporation
InventorsMatthew Robert Burris, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Abstract
A pre-staged or in-person provided order is received from a customer location. Order details are sent to a fulfillment terminal and items associated with the order are prepared or collected. The items are loaded into an autonomous device. The autonomous device plans a route from its current location to the customer location and the autonomous device navigates from its current location to the customer location using the route. The customer is verified at the autonomous device and a secure bin is unlocked by the autonomous device. The customer removes the items associated with the order from the unlocked secure bin, and the autonomous device navigates back to its original location within an enterprise.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by an autonomous device, order details for an order including a designated location where a customer associated with the order is to be delivered the order;
- confirming, by the autonomous device, one or more items associated with the order details are loaded into a secure bin of the autonomous device by the autonomous device scanning a Quick Response (QR) code that identifies the customer, the items, and the designated location and confirming, by the autonomous device, the order details are correct, as each item is loaded into the secure bin of the autonomous device by the autonomous device scanning each label of each item being loaded and matching a corresponding item to the order details identified in the QR code;
- navigating, by the autonomous device from a current location to the designated location;
- verifying, by the autonomous device, an identity of the customer at the designated location;
- and
- unlocking, by the autonomous device, the secure bin responsive at least in part to verifying the identity of the customer.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by an autonomous delivery device, order details for an order including a designated location where one or more items associated with the order are to be delivered;
- verifying, by the autonomous delivery device, the one or more items as the one or more items are loaded into a secure bin of the autonomous delivery device by comparing each loaded item against the order details;
- locking, by the autonomous delivery device, the secure bin upon verification that each of the one or more items from the order details are loaded;
- planning, by the autonomous delivery device, a navigation route from a current location to the designated location;
- navigating, by the autonomous delivery device, from the current location to the designated location using the navigation route;
- verifying, by the autonomous delivery device, the one or more items as the one or more items are loaded into a secure bin of the autonomous delivery device by the autonomous delivery device scanning a Quick Response (QR) code that identifies a customer, the one or more items, and the designated location and confirming, by the autonomous delivery device, the order details are correct, as each item is loaded into the secure bin of the autonomous delivery device by the autonomous delivery device scanning each label of each item being loaded and matching a corresponding item to the order details identified in the QR code;
- and
- unlocking, by the autonomous delivery device, the secure bin when an identity of the customer is verified to allow removal of the one or more items from the secure bin.
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An autonomous delivery device, comprising:
- a secure bin configured to be locked and unlocked;
- a camera;
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions representing a transaction agent, wherein the transaction agent when executed by the processor is configured to cause the processor to:
- receive order details for an order including a designated location where one or more items associated with the order are to be delivered to a customer;
- verify the one or more items as the one or more items are loaded into the secure bin by scanning a Quick Response (QR) code that identifies the customer, the one or more items, and the designated location using the camera and confirming the order details are correct, as each item is loaded into the secure bin by scanning each label of each item being loaded using the camera and matching a corresponding item to the order details identified in the QR code;
- lock the secure bin upon verification that each of the one or more items from the order details are loaded;
- plan a navigation route from a current location of the autonomous delivery device to the designated location;
- navigate the autonomous delivery device from the current location to the designated location using the navigation route;
- verify an identity of the customer at the designated location;
- and
- unlock the secure bin when the identity of the customer is verified to allow the customer to remove the one or more items from the secure bin at the designated location to fulfill the order.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.