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US 2018/0018784 A1Published application
Systems and Methods for Parcel Tracking and Delivery
OwnerCarlos E. Canoinventor
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Abstract
The recipient address on the parcel is any image displayed on the exterior surface. The image is associated with a recipient address in a database. The image is read with an image reading device. An App recognizes the image and determines the associated recipient address. Tracking of the parcel from the sender to the recipient is displayed by the App on the image reading device.
Claims12
A method for addressing, identifying and delivering a parcel, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a parcel delivery App capable of accessing a database of recipient addresses and that is operable on a device;
- installing the parcel delivery App on the device;
- generating one or more tracking images;
- assigning the one or more tracking images to a recipient address in the database;
- displaying one of the one or more tracking images on an external surface of the parcel;
- photographing the tracking image with the device;
- using the App installed on the device to recognize the tracking image and to associate the image with a recipient address assigned to the tracking image;
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- delivering the parcel to the address assigned to the tracking image.
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A method for logistics in a logistics environment, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing an object to be identified and tracked;
- identifying the object with a marking;
- associating the marking with a corresponding database entry;
- and
- locating the object at any point in the logistics environment.
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A system for addressing a parcel and delivering the parcel, the system comprising:
- one or more image reading devices;
- one or more Apps installed on one or more of the one or more image reading devices, at least one of the one or more Apps being capable of recognizing a tracking image and associating the tracking image with a recipient address in a database that can be accessed by the tracking image recognition App;
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- a database of recipient addresses that can be accessed by the tracking image recognition App.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.