US 2014/0279281 A1Published application

Administration system and method for product delivery

AssigneeParcelPoke Limited

InventorRICHARD JOHN TOLCHER

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Abstract

An order placement and delivery system is provided in which a final delivery address of a recipient is obscured or not known to a sender. The sender places an order for a gift against the unique sender identity, relays to the administrator a recipient's virtual contact address, and constructs a personal message which is routed to the virtual contact address. The point of origin of the personal message is inferred to be directly from the sender. The personal message forewarns the recipient that they will be messaged by the administrator to acquire a real-world physical address that will be used for physical gift delivery and stored in the database against the virtual contact address, such that future orders identifying the recipient's virtual contact address can be dispatched expeditiously to the recipient's physical address with reduced messaging overhead and without having to reveal the recipient's physical address to the sender.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method of delivering a product to an order recipient having a real-world delivery address potentially unknown to a registered user responsible for placing an order for the product at an administration system configured to manage order transactions for registered users and to authorize delivery of products to order recipients, the method comprising:

over a communications network, communicating an order message from a communication device to the administration system, the order message including a unique sender identity associated with the registered user, a virtual recipient address of the order recipient and a transaction instruction related to the product to be delivered to said order recipient;
at the communication device, generating at least part of a personalized message and initiating electronic communication thereof to the virtual recipient address;
at the administration system, receiving the order message and approving delivery of said order subject to correlating the unique sender identity against a registered account for the registered user and settling the transaction instruction against the registered account;
at the administration system, sending a downlink call message to the virtual recipient address, the downlink call message designed to solicit return of, or confirm, a real-world delivery address from the order recipient;
at the administration system, subsequent to receipt of the requested real-world address in a message sent from the virtual recipient address, resolving a relationship between the virtual recipient address and the real-world delivery address and instructing delivery of the product to the real-world delivery address of the order recipient.

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An administration system configured to manage order transactions of registered users and to authorize delivery of products to order recipients, the administration system comprising:

a server configured:
to receive and be responsive to an order message having a unique sender identity associated with a registered user, a virtual recipient address of a first order recipient and a transaction instruction related to a product to be delivered to said first order recipient;
to approve delivery of said product subject to correlating the unique sender identity against a registered account for the registered user and settling the transaction instruction against the registered account stored in a database of registered users;
following sending of a personalized message referring to the order, to assemble and send a downlink call message to the virtual recipient address, the downlink call message soliciting return of, or confirmation of, a real-world delivery address from the order recipient;
to receive the solicited real-world address in a message received from the virtual recipient address;
and
to resolve a relationship between the virtual recipient address and the real-world delivery address, whereafter the server is arranged to issue an instruction for delivery of the product to the real-world delivery address of the order recipient.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/217,072Filed 17 Mar 2014
Priority: 15 Mar 2013
Published: 18 Sep 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06Q 10/0838
Shipping: historical data
G06Q 10/083
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: shipping
G06Q 30/06
Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
G06Q 30/0637
Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists: requiring approval before final submission, e.g. parental approval