Door-to-door parcel delivery information exchange system

• US 20060206439A1
• Filed: 12/05/2003
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Keysoft, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Keysoft, Inc.
• Inventors: Ikeuchi, Hisanori, Miyauchi, Masahiro, Kagiwada, Yoshimitsu
• Application Number:
  US10/537,649
• Publication Number:
  US 20060206439A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/401
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to provide the system capable of grasping a transaction state from a commodity purchase to the settlement and reception of the commodity. In order to achieve the objective, the processing means executes a processing such as storing a billing amount based on the order reception information in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means by every piece of order reception information received from the receiver side terminal; storing the delivery state information received from the deliverer side terminal in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means by every piece of order reception information; and when receiving a transmission request from the receiver side terminal, referencing the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means, and then transmitting the billing amount and the delivery state information to the receiver side terminal by every piece of the order reception information.

Claims

1. A door-to-door parcel delivery information exchange system, comprising:

commodity information storage means that stores commodity information;

door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means that stores a billing amount based on the order reception information and a delivery state information of the commodity associated with the order reception information, by every piece of order reception information of the commodity associated with the commodity information;

communication means that communicates with an external device; and

processing means that controls an operation of each means,

wherein the processing means executes a processing such as receiving the order reception information of the commodity associated with the commodity information from a receiver side terminal of the commodity that receives the commodity information through the communication means, and then storing a billing amount based on the order reception information in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means by every piece of order reception information thus received;

receiving delivery state information of the commodity associated with the order reception information from a deliverer side terminal by every piece of the order reception information through the communication means, and then storing the delivery state information thus received in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means by every piece of order reception information; and

when receiving a transmission request of a storage result stored in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means from the receiver side terminal or the order receiver side terminal of the commodity, referencing a storage result stored in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means, and then transmitting the billing amount based on the order reception information and the delivery state information of the commodity associated with the order reception information to the receiver side terminal or the order receiver side terminal, from which the transmission request is given, by every piece of the order reception information through the communication means.

2. The door-to-door parcel delivery information exchange system according to claim 1, further comprising delivery source information storage means that stores delivery source information of a delivery source from which a commodity associated with the order reception information is shipped, wherein the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means performs the processing such as storing a shipping slip of the commodity based on the order reception information by every piece of the order reception information, and the processing means performs the processing such as preparing the shipping slip of the commodity based on the order reception information thus received, and storing the shipping slip thus prepared in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means by every piece of order reception information thus received;

reading the delivery source information of the delivery source, from which the commodity associated with the order reception information thus received is shipped from the delivery source information storage means;

referencing the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means, and then transmitting the shipping slip thus prepared to the deliverer side terminal of the delivery source of the delivery source information thus read, by every piece of order reception information that receives the shipping slip thus prepared.

3. The door-to-door parcel delivery information exchange system according to claim 1, wherein the processing means executes the processing such as referencing a result stored in the door-to-door parcel delivery information storage means when receiving the information such that payment according to the billing amount is completed, from the payment side terminal by every piece of the order reception information through the communication means, and storing the billing amount as already paid by every piece of the order reception information.

4. The door-to-door parcel delivery information exchange system according to claim 1, wherein the commodity information includes the information on a fragile article or a pet, and the delivery state information includes the information on a broken state of the fragile article, or a state of the pet, in delivering the commodity.