Shipping container reuse recommendation system
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorLorin Catherine May
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Abstract
A shipping container reuse recommendation system receives a shipping container identifier of a shipping container. The shipping container identifier of the shipping container is associated with a first transaction of an online marketplace application. The location of the shipping container is tracked. A database stores shipping container identifiers and corresponding transaction and tracking location histories. A recommendation to reuse a shipping container in a second transaction of the online marketplace application is generated based on a transaction and tracking location history associated with the shipping container identifier.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a shipping container identifier module configured to receive a shipping container identifier of a shipping container;
- an online marketplace interface module configured to associate the shipping container identifier of the shipping container with a first transaction of an online marketplace application;
- a tracking module configured to track a location of the shipping container;
- and
- a processor-implemented reuse recommendation engine configured to generate a recommendation to reuse the shipping container for a second transaction of the online marketplace application based on a transaction and tracking location history associated with the shipping container identifier.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a shipping container identifier of a shipping container;
- associating the shipping container identifier of the shipping container with a first transaction of an online marketplace application;
- tracking a location of the shipping container;
- and
- generating a recommendation to reuse the shipping container for a second transaction of the online marketplace application based on a transaction and tracking location history associated with the shipping container identifier.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, comprising:
- receiving a shipping container identifier of a shipping container;
- associating the shipping container identifier of the shipping container with a first transaction of an online marketplace application;
- tracking a location of the shipping container;
- storing in a storage device, a database of shipping container identifiers and corresponding transaction and tracking location histories;
- and
- generating a recommendation to reuse the shipping container in a second transaction of the online marketplace application based on a transaction and tracking location history associated with the shipping container identifier.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- tracking a number of shipping transactions of a shipping container based on a shipping container identifier associated with the shipping container;
- and
- generating a recommendation to reuse the shipping container based on the number of shipping transactions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.