Method and apparatus for tracking package deliveries
AssigneeKitaru Innovations Inc.
InventorKapoor Chandaria
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Abstract
A system and method for verifying receipt of a postal mail item mailed by a sender of the postal mail item is presented. A method reads postal information from a postal mail item that identifies the postal mail item. The postal information is combined with identification information that identifies the recipient of the postal mail item. The postal information and the identification information are sent to the sender of the postal mail item.
Claims21
A method for verifying receipt of a postal mail item mailed by a sender of the postal mail item comprising the steps of:
- providing a device having a reader to a mail recipient, wherein the device is configured to read postal information that identifies the postal mail item;
- the mail recipient receiving the postal mail item;
- using the device to read postal information from the postal mail item by the mail recipient that identifies the postal mail item;
- combining the postal information with identification information that identifies the mail recipient of the postal mail item;
- sending the postal information and the identification information from the device to the sender upon receipt of the postal mail item;
- and
- leaving the postal mail item with the mail recipient.
A system for verifying receipt of a mail item that was mailed by a sender of the mail item comprising:
- a reader device in the possession of a recipient of the mail item, said device including read logic, identification logic, and communication logic;
- said read logic configured to read information associated with a mail item from the mail item;
- said identification logic configured to identify a person receiving the mail item as the recipient;
- and
- said communication logic configured to communicate from the recipient to the sender that the mail item has been received by the recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.