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US 2011/0035249 A1Published application
Mail acceptance system and method
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsKibaek LEE, Byung-Chul Cha, Hong Suk Hu, Jong Heung Park
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Abstract
A mail acceptance system selects a mail center that is near a client by using mail acceptance information input by the client, calculates transport cost of the selected mail center, selects a mail center that is appropriate for making loads of mail centers equal and minimizing the transport cost as a suitable mail center from among the selected mail centers, and sets a visit and acceptance schedule for visiting and accepting the client's mail.
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A mail acceptance system comprising:
- a reservation management module for receiving a client's mail acceptance information;
- a transport network management module for selecting at least one mail center that is near the client and a transportation route for the at least one mail center to visit and accept the client's mail based on the mail acceptance information, and calculating a transport cost corresponding to the transportation route;
- a mail center monitoring module for calculating available mail processing capacity of the at least one mail center;
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- an analysis module for selecting a mail center that is appropriate for visit and acceptance from among the at least one mail center based on the transport cost and the available mail processing capacity, and setting a visit and acceptance schedule for the selected mail center to visit and accept the client's mail.
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A mail acceptance method of a mail acceptance system, comprising:
- selecting at least one mail center that is near the client and a transportation route for visiting and accepting the client's mail for the at least one mail center based on mail acceptance information of a client;
- calculating a transport cost to be generated when the at least one mail center visits and accepts the client's mail by using the transportation route;
- calculating available mail processing capacity of the at least one mail center;
- selecting a mail center that is appropriate for visiting and accepting the client's mail from among the at least one mail center based on the transport cost and the available processing capacity;
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- controlling the appropriate mail center to set a visit schedule for visiting and accepting the client's mail.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.