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US 2003/0120505 A1Published application
Delivering ordered items to an appropriate address
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorJoel R. Spiegel
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AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorJoel R. Spiegel
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A method, system, and computer-readable medium for automatically determining appropriate delivery information for one or more items of an order or potential order is described. A variety of types of information can be considered when determining what delivery information is appropriate for one or more items, such as a type of the items, the particular items, relationships of the items to other items, information about the purchaser, and/or information about the recipient. In addition, the automatic determination of an appropriate address for an item being ordered or potentially ordered by a user can be made in a variety of ways, such as based on inferences from past behavior when ordering items, on inferences from information about the item and from available delivery information for the user, and/or on previous explicit indications from the user.
A method for an item ordering service to assist a customer in ordering items by determining an appropriate delivery address for those items, comprising:
A method for assisting users by determining appropriate delivery addresses for items, the method comprising:
A computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computing system to determine appropriate delivery addresses for items, by performing a method comprising:
A computing device for determining appropriate delivery addresses for items, comprising:
A computer system for determining appropriate delivery addresses for items, comprising:
A method for assisting users by determining appropriate delivery addresses for items, the method comprising:
One or more computer memories collectively containing a data structure for use in determining appropriate delivery addresses for items, the data structure comprising a multiplicity of entries, each entry associated with a user and containing information indicating an association between an item type and one or more delivery addresses that are associated with that user,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.