User notification system used for home delivery locker

• US 20020054370A1
• Filed: 07/02/2001
• Published: 05/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fulltime System
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fulltime System
• Inventors: Hara, Kouichiro
• Application Number:
  US09/895,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20020054370A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00302 with a telephonic apparatus, e.g. telephone answering machine or videotex terminal H04N1/00307 takes precedence; telephonic communication H04M
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0093 Facsimile machine H04N2201/0094 takes precedence

Abstract

In a user notification system used for a home delivery locker which a home delivery locker and a managing center for managing the home delivery locker are connected through a communication line, and information indicating that the home delivery locker has a parcel is received by the managing center, the system is characterized in that, based upon information of the receiver contained in the information, the managing center or the home delivery locker automatically delivers the parcel delivery information to the receiver through communication means such as telephone (including mobile telephone), facsimile and electronic mail. In the case of a conventional pick-up process of a parcel, it is not possible to confirm whether or not any parcel has arrived, until the receiver has come home and see a notice inside the mail post; therefore, the resulting problem is that, in the case of any urgent parcel, the receiver has to go to the mail box many times to see whether there is any notice therein. The present system makes it possible to solve such a problem.

Claims

1. A user notification system used for a home delivery locker, comprising:

a home delivery locker, and

a managing center for managing the home delivery locker, the home delivery locker and the managing center being connected through a communication line so that the managing center is allowed to receive information indicating the fact that a parcel is stored in the home delivery locker,

wherein, based upon receiver information contained in the information, a piece of parcel delivery information is automatically delivered from the managing center or the home delivery locker to the receiver through a communication means such as telephone (including mobile telephone), facsimile and electronic mail.

2. The user notification system used for a home delivery locker according to claim 1, wherein the communication means for delivering the parcel delivery information from the managing center or the home delivery locker is limited to one of the communication means that has been preliminarily registered by the receiver in the managing center.

3. A user notification system used for a home delivery locker, comprising:

a home delivery locker, and

a managing center for managing the home delivery locker, the home delivery locker and the managing center being connected through a communication line so that the managing center is allowed to receive information indicating the fact that a parcel is stored in the home delivery locker,

wherein, when the receiver makes a telephone call to the managing center or the home delivery locker and when it has been confirmed that the caller is the preliminarily registered receiver, a piece of parcel delivery information is given through a telephone automatic answering system.

4. A user notification system used for a home delivery locker, comprising:

a home delivery locker, and

a managing center for managing the home delivery locker, the home delivery locker and the managing center being connected through a communication line so that the managing center is allowed to receive information indicating the fact that a parcel is stored in the home delivery locker,

wherein the receiver is allowed to access a site owned by the managing center and identify himself or herself so that the receiver gets a piece of parcel delivery information.