Determining a delivery location and time based on the schedule or location of a consignee
AssigneeUnited Parcel Service of America, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey C. Sager, William Gensburg
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AssigneeUnited Parcel Service of America, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey C. Sager, William Gensburg
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Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for programmatically determining/identifying a delivery location and time based on the schedule of the consignee. One example embodiment may include a method comprising receiving shipping/parcel information/data, the shipping/parcel information/data indicative of an item/parcel to be delivered to a consignee by a carrier, determining whether consignee schedule information/data is accessible, the consignee schedule information/data comprising information/data indicative of a consignee and information/data indicative of a location and an associated time at which the consignee has indicated an ability to receive an item, and providing, to a client device, via a network, a delivery location and a delivery time, the delivery location and the delivery time determined between the consignee schedule information/data and the default delivery location and the estimated time of delivery.
A method for providing information identifying where and when delivery of an item is to occur, the method comprising:
A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising instructions for:
A computer-implemented method comprising:
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