Delivery management system

• US 10,298,783 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2016
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Kiyose, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Washington, Jamares Q
• Application Number:
  US15/577,364
• Publication Number:
  US 20180159991A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• Field of Search: 358 115, 709203
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5091 for user-identification or authorisation
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 21/00 Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32411 Handling instructions for routing or relaying

Abstract

A delivery management system includes a multifunction peripheral for forming an image, a server communicable with the multifunction peripheral, and mobile terminal devices communicable with the server. The server includes an authorization unit and an image data generation unit. The authorization unit grants the mobile terminal devices data disclosure rights on the basis of delivery-related data, which has been received by a receiving unit. The image data generation unit generates image data on the basis of the delivery-related data received by the receiving unit. A mobile terminal device transmitting unit transmits, to the server, delivery image data read by a mobile terminal device image reading unit. A notifying unit notifies the delivery-related data that is transmitted from the server on the basis of the data disclosure rights granted to the mobile terminal devices.

Claims

1. A delivery management system, which includes:

an image forming device that forms an image, a server that is communicable with the image forming device, and a plurality of mobile terminal devices that are communicable with the server, and delivers a delivery article from a user of a sending source to a user of a sending destination,

wherein the image forming device includes;

an input unit via which delivery-related data is input,

an image forming device transmitting unit that transmits the delivery-related data which has been input to the input unit to the server,

an image forming device receiving unit that receives image data that is transmitted from the server, and

a printing unit that forms a delivery image on the basis of the image data which has been received by the image forming device receiving unit and prints a delivery report of the delivery article,

the server includes;

a server receiving unit that receives data that is transmitted from the image forming device and the plurality of mobile terminal devices,

an authentication unit that authenticates an access from the image forming device and the plurality of mobile terminal devices,

a storage unit that stores data related to a user, which includes;

a user name, first address data of an address of the user, and second address data of the address of the user that is different from the first address data and is more detailed than the first address data, and enables identification of the address of the user when referred to together with the first address data,

an authorization unit that grants the plurality of mobile terminal devices a data disclosure right on the basis of the delivery-related data which has been received by the server receiving unit, each of the plurality of mobile terminal devices being granted a different data disclosure right,

an image data generation unit that generates image data on the basis of the delivery-related data which has been received by the server receiving unit, and

a server transmitting unit that transmits data to the image forming device and the plurality of mobile terminal devices, and

each of the plurality of mobile terminal devices includes;

a mobile terminal device image reading unit that reads the delivery image,

a mobile terminal device image transmitting unit that transmits image data of the delivery image which has been read by the mobile terminal device image reading unit to the server,

a mobile terminal device image receiving unit that receives data that is transmitted from the server, and

a notifying unit that displays a notification of the delivery-related data which is transmitted from the server on the basis of the data disclosure right granted to the mobile terminal device, wherein

the server transmitting unit transmits the first address data of the user of the sending source and the user of the sending destination and the second address data of the user of the sending destination, or both the first address data and the second address data of the user of the sending destination to the each of the plurality of mobile terminal devices in accordance with the right granted by the authorization unit, and

the image data generated by the image data generation unit includes an avatar face image of the user and a key image data in a background of the avatar face image, the key image data comprising image data of a generation time and a randomly generated invoice number of the delivery report.

2. The delivery management system according to claim 1,

wherein the notifying unit includes a touch panel.

3. The delivery management system according to claim 1,

wherein, when the server receives the delivery-related data, the server transmits an email to the mobile terminal device that is owned by the user of a sending destination.

4. The delivery management system according to claim 1,

wherein when the authentication unit successfully authenticates an access from the mobile terminal device that is associated with the user of the sending destination, the server transmitting unit transmits the data of the user name of the sending source to the mobile terminal device which made the access, and

the notifying unit displays a notification of the data of the user name of the sending source received by the mobile terminal device receiving unit.