System and method for providing disparate networked, off-road guidance in rural areas
AssigneeAgrellus, Inc.
InventorsAlan Freeman, Brice Kelly
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Abstract
A system and method for providing a listing service for farmers in rural areas. A farmer may be able to “drop a pin” on an interactive map to a location, such as a barn, to where supplies may be delivered by a delivery driver. By providing such a map, natural barriers to entry into a marketplace may be broken down for suppliers, thereby enabling a marketplace to expand with suppliers.
Claims20
A system for providing directional guidance to a driver of goods to a destination location, said system comprising:
- a data repository configured to store historical positional locations of delivery drivers who previously delivered goods to a destination location, the positional locations being based on geographic coordinates from electronic devices carried by vehicles used to make the deliveries;
- a processing unit configured to:
- receive a destination location;
- access said data repository to identify historical positional locations associated with the destination location;
- communicate at least a portion of the historical positional locations to a mapping application being executed by an electronic device of a delivery driver, at least a portion of the historical positional locations causing the mapping application to display the historical positional locations on a map to provide driving directions for the delivery driver.
A user interface, comprising:
- an interactive map configured to enable a user to drop a pin on the interactive map to indicate a location for supplies to be delivered;
- an order interface configured to enable a user to select a supplier of supplies to be delivered to the location represented by the pin;
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- an order request manager configured to communicate a request of an order and the location represented by the pin dropped on the interactive map to an order server.
A method for providing directional guidance to a driver of goods to a destination location, said method comprising:
- storing historical positional locations of delivery drivers who previously delivered goods to a destination location;
- receiving a destination location;
- identifying historical positional locations associated with the destination location;
- communicating at least a portion of the historical positional locations to a mapping application being executed by an electronic device of a delivery driver, at least a portion of the historical positional locations causing the mapping application to display the historical positional locations on a map to provide driving directions for the delivery driver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.