Dispensation delay prediction systems and methods
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1. A computer-implemented order facilitation method relating first and second client devices to a first provider facility wherein said first client device is aboard a first vehicle, said computer-implemented order facilitation method comprising:
- obtaining an indication of a user account via said first client device aboard said first vehicle;
responding to one or more attributes of said user account or of said first client device by identifying multiple provider facilities including said first provider facility;
invoking transistor-based circuitry configured to obtain a category of a current day and a current day part within said current day, wherein said day part of said current day correlates to a single day part of a first same-type day corresponding to said current day part and to a single day part of a second same-type day also corresponding to said current day part and wherein at least one prior day within a week before said current day is not a same-type day, wherein said category indicates that said current day is exceptional, wherein said first and second same-type days are also exceptional, wherein said computer-implemented order facilitation method has applied a longer threshold to said first and second same-type days than a threshold applicable to unexceptional prior days in said computer-implemented order facilitation method, and wherein said longer threshold is more than 4 months;
invoking transistor-based circuitry configured to respond to an indication that an order was associated with said second client device by computing a difference between when said second client device entered a vicinity of said first provider facility and when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility as a component of empirical delay time data based on said first same-type day as a conditional response to no order fulfillment signal having been received, wherein when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility is used in establishing when a dispensation associated with said second client device occurred because of no order fulfillment signal having been received in relation to said order associated with said second client device;
implementing a day-type-dependent, time-of-day-dependent dispensation delay prediction function to generate a dispensation delay prediction of said first provider facility at least partly based on transaction history data from said first provider facility, wherein said transaction history data indicates said difference between when said second client device entered said vicinity of said first provider facility and when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility as said component of empirical delay time data based on said first same-type day, relating to said first provider facility; and
transmitting said dispensation delay prediction of said first provider facility via said display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle and travel time predictions to said first provider facility and to a second provider facility from a current location of said first client device, wherein said dispensation delay prediction and said travel time predictions to said first provider facility and to said second provider facility from said current location of said first client device are all presented simultaneously via a display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle, wherein after said dispensation delay prediction is transmitted via said first client device a corresponding order is received via said first client device aboard said first vehicle for a delivery at said first provider facility, wherein said transmitting said dispensation delay prediction of said first provider facility via said display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle includes distilling a representative intermediate value of empirical delay time data based on two or more same-type days and specifically pertaining to said first provider facility, wherein said representative intermediate value is partly based on said single day part of said first same-type day corresponding to said current day part and partly based on said single day part of said second same-type day corresponding to said current day part, and wherein said two or more same-type days include said first and second same-type days.
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Provided herein are systems and methods relating to prediction in a context of first and second client devices related to a provider facility (a drive-through that sells comestible goods, e.g.) wherein the first client device is aboard a first vehicle and predictive data relating to the first client device is improved by retaining data relating to the second client device (having visited the provider facility on a prior same-type day, e.g.).
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1. A computer-implemented order facilitation method relating first and second client devices to a first provider facility wherein said first client device is aboard a first vehicle, said computer-implemented order facilitation method comprising:
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obtaining an indication of a user account via said first client device aboard said first vehicle; responding to one or more attributes of said user account or of said first client device by identifying multiple provider facilities including said first provider facility; invoking transistor-based circuitry configured to obtain a category of a current day and a current day part within said current day, wherein said day part of said current day correlates to a single day part of a first same-type day corresponding to said current day part and to a single day part of a second same-type day also corresponding to said current day part and wherein at least one prior day within a week before said current day is not a same-type day, wherein said category indicates that said current day is exceptional, wherein said first and second same-type days are also exceptional, wherein said computer-implemented order facilitation method has applied a longer threshold to said first and second same-type days than a threshold applicable to unexceptional prior days in said computer-implemented order facilitation method, and wherein said longer threshold is more than 4 months; invoking transistor-based circuitry configured to respond to an indication that an order was associated with said second client device by computing a difference between when said second client device entered a vicinity of said first provider facility and when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility as a component of empirical delay time data based on said first same-type day as a conditional response to no order fulfillment signal having been received, wherein when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility is used in establishing when a dispensation associated with said second client device occurred because of no order fulfillment signal having been received in relation to said order associated with said second client device; implementing a day-type-dependent, time-of-day-dependent dispensation delay prediction function to generate a dispensation delay prediction of said first provider facility at least partly based on transaction history data from said first provider facility, wherein said transaction history data indicates said difference between when said second client device entered said vicinity of said first provider facility and when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility as said component of empirical delay time data based on said first same-type day, relating to said first provider facility; and transmitting said dispensation delay prediction of said first provider facility via said display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle and travel time predictions to said first provider facility and to a second provider facility from a current location of said first client device, wherein said dispensation delay prediction and said travel time predictions to said first provider facility and to said second provider facility from said current location of said first client device are all presented simultaneously via a display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle, wherein after said dispensation delay prediction is transmitted via said first client device a corresponding order is received via said first client device aboard said first vehicle for a delivery at said first provider facility, wherein said transmitting said dispensation delay prediction of said first provider facility via said display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle includes distilling a representative intermediate value of empirical delay time data based on two or more same-type days and specifically pertaining to said first provider facility, wherein said representative intermediate value is partly based on said single day part of said first same-type day corresponding to said current day part and partly based on said single day part of said second same-type day corresponding to said current day part, and wherein said two or more same-type days include said first and second same-type days. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A computer-implemented order facilitation method relating first and second client devices to a first provider facility wherein said first client device is aboard a first vehicle, said computer-implemented order facilitation method comprising:
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obtaining a category of a current day and a current day part within said current day, wherein said day part of said current day correlates to a single day part of a first same-type day corresponding to said current day part and to a single day part of a second same-type day also corresponding to said current day part and wherein at least one prior day within a week before said current day is not a same-type day, wherein said category indicates that said current day is exceptional, wherein said first and second same-type days are also exceptional, wherein said computer-implemented order facilitation method has applied a longer threshold to said first and second same-type days than a threshold applicable to unexceptional prior days in said computer-implemented order facilitation method, and wherein said longer threshold is more than 4 months; responding to an indication that an order was associated with said second client device by computing a difference between when said second client device entered a vicinity of said first provider facility and when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility according to one or more timestamps associated with Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates as a component of empirical delay time data based on said first same-type day; transmitting order and payment parameters to said first provider facility so as to facilitate pre-arrival order fulfillment; and transmitting a dispensation delay prediction, relating to said first provider facility via a display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle partly based on when said second client device reached said vicinity of said first provider facility on said first same-type day and partly based on when a dispensation associated with said second client device occurred on one or more same-type days including said first same-type day. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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12. A computer-implemented order facilitation system relating first and second client devices to a first provider facility wherein said first client device is aboard a first vehicle, said computer-implemented order facilitation system comprising:
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transistor-based circuitry configured to obtain a category of a current day and a current day part within said current day, wherein said day part of said current day correlates to a single day part of a first same-type day corresponding to said current day part and to a single day part of a second same-type day also corresponding to said current day part and wherein at least one prior day within a week before said current day is not a same-type day, wherein said category indicates that said current day is exceptional, wherein said first and second same-type days are also exceptional, wherein said computer-implemented order facilitation system is configured to apply a longer threshold to said first and second same-type days than a threshold applicable to unexceptional prior days in said computer-implemented order facilitation system, and wherein said longer threshold is more than 4 months; transistor-based circuitry configured to respond to an indication that an order was associated with said second client device by computing a difference between when said second client device entered a vicinity of said first provider facility and when said second client device left said vicinity of said first provider facility according to one or more timestamps associated with Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates as a component of empirical delay time data based on said first same-type day; transistor-based circuitry configured to transmit order and payment parameters to said first provider facility so as to facilitate pre-arrival order fulfillment; and transistor-based circuitry configured to transmit a dispensation delay prediction, relating to said first provider facility via a display screen of said first client device aboard said first vehicle partly based on when said second client device reached said vicinity of said first provider facility on said first same-type day and partly based on when a dispensation associated with said second client device occurred on one or more same-type days including said first same-type day. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 20)
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