Traveler synchronized purchase and delivery
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsNorbert Herman, Shubhadip Ray, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Craig M. Trim
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsNorbert Herman, Shubhadip Ray, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Craig M. Trim
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Aspects of the present invention provide devices that receive an item for purchase and an itinerary of a user that includes multiple destinations, each destination defined by a geographic identifier and a corresponding time. Embodiments identify multiple vendor purchase and delivery options for the item, each of the delivery options including at least one of the destinations, wherein the vendor purchase and delivery options have attributes that include a vendor identifier, an item price, a shipping price for the item to one of the plurality of destinations at the corresponding time, and an identifier of a destination at a corresponding time, and wherein the embodiments select one of the vendor purchase and delivery options for the item as a function of determining that the attributes of the selected one meet user preferences.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
A computer system, comprising:
A computer program product, comprising:
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