Cargo Delivery Apparatus
OwnerDonald R. Highinventor
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Abstract
A control circuit dynamically identifies ad hoc shuttle points. By one approach the control circuit identifies ad hoc shuttle points as a function of available cargo delivery vehicles and en route cargo (including items to be delivered to a specific recipient address). The control circuit then automatically assigns at least two of the available cargo delivery vehicles to meet at a particular ad hoc shuttle point in order to move at least one of the items from a first one of the available cargo delivery vehicles to a second one of the cargo delivery vehicles to thereby effect delivery of the item to the corresponding specific recipient address.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one cargo delivery vehicle;
- a control circuit configured to:
- dynamically identify ad hoc shuttle points as a function of:
- available cargo delivery vehicles that include the at least one cargo delivery vehicle;
- and
- en route cargo including items to be delivered to specific recipient addresses;
- and
- automatically assign at least two of the available cargo delivery vehicles to meet at a particular one of the ad hoc shuttle points in order to move at least one of the items from a first one of the available cargo delivery vehicles to a second one of the available cargo delivery vehicles to thereby effect delivery of the item to the corresponding specific recipient address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.