Delivery management system and delivery cabinet

• US 20060224512A1
• Filed: 06/22/2005
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kurakata, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US11/157,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224512A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/60 Business processes related to postal services shipping G06Q10/083; franking apparatus G07B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00896 specially adapted for particular uses
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00912 for safes, strong-rooms, vaults or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

The present invention provides a delivery management system including a public key storage unit for storing a public key of the addressee; a secret key input unit for inputting a secret key of the addressee; and an authentication unit for authenticating the addressee on the basis of the secret key inputted by the secret key input unit and the public key stored in the public key storage unit. Thereby, it is possible to grasp that the addressee receives the delivery so as to improve a reliability of the deliver.

Claims

1. A delivery management system for managing the information about a delivery delivered to an addressee, comprising:

a public key storage unit for storing a public key of the addressee;

a secret key input unit for inputting a secret key of the addressee; and

an authentication unit for authenticating the addressee on the basis of the secret key inputted by the secret key input unit and the public key stored in the public key storage unit.

2. The delivery management system according to claim 1, comprising a delivery cabinet and a management server communicatably connected to the delivery cabinet via a communication network, wherein

the delivery cabinet comprising:

the secret key input unit;

a delivery storage unit for storing the delivery delivered to the addressee;

a locking unit for locking the delivery storage unit;

an addressee information input unit for inputting the addressee information for specifying the addressee;

an authentication data generating unit for generating authentication data by adding a digital signature created by using the secret key inputted by the secret key input unit to authentication information including the addressee information;

a transmission unit for transmitting the authentication data generated by the authentication data generating unit to the management server via the communication network; and

an unlocking unit for unlocking the delivery storage unit, when the addressee is identified by the authentication unit, locked by the locking unit, wherein

the management server comprising the public key storage unit, the authentication unit, and unlocking instruction unit for instructing the unlocking unit to unlock the delivery storage unit when the addressee is identified by the authentication unit, wherein

the authentication unit authenticates the addressee by decoding the digital signature added to the authentication data transmitted from the transmission unit by using the public key; and

the unlocking unit unlocks the delivery storage unit in accordance with an unlocking instruction of the unlocking instruction unit.

3. The delivery management system according to claim 1, comprising a portable terminal that a deliverer can carry with him or her and a management server communicatably connected to the delivery cabinet via a communication network, wherein

the portable terminal comprising:

the secret key input unit;

an addressee information input unit for inputting the addressee information for specifying the addressee;

an authentication data generating unit for generating the authentication data by adding a digital signature created by using the secret key inputted by the secret key input unit to the authentication information including the addressee information; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the authentication data generated by the authentication data generating unit to the management server via the communication network, wherein the management server comprising the public key storage unit and the authentication unit; and

wherein

the authentication unit authenticates the addressee by decoding the digital signature added to the authentication data transmitted from the transmission unit by using the public key.

4. The delivery management system according to claim 2, wherein

the authentication unit authenticates the addressee on the basis of the addressee information added with the authentication data and the public key.

5. The delivery management system according to claim 3, wherein

the authentication unit authenticates the addressee on the basis of the addressee information added with the authentication data and the public key.

6. The delivery management system according to claim 1, comprising a delivery completion notice unit for giving a notice of completion of the delivery to a person who requests delivery to the addressee when the addressee receives the delivery.

7. The delivery management system according to claim 2, comprising a delivery completion notice unit for giving a notice of completion of the delivery to a person who requests delivery to the addressee when the addressee receives the delivery.

8. The delivery management system according to claim 3, comprising a delivery completion notice unit for giving a notice of completion of the delivery to a person who requests delivery to the addressee when the addressee receives the delivery.

9. The delivery management system according to claim 4, comprising a delivery completion notice unit for giving a notice of completion of the delivery to a person who requests delivery to the addressee when the addressee receives the delivery.

10. The delivery management system according to claim 5, comprising a delivery completion notice unit for giving a notice of completion of the delivery to a person who requests delivery to the addressee when the addressee receives the delivery.

11. The delivery management system according to claim 1, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.

12. The delivery management system according to claim 2, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.

13. The delivery management system according to claim 3, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.

14. The delivery management system according to claim 4, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.

15. The delivery management system according to claim 5, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.

16. The delivery management system according to claim 6, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.

17. A delivery cabinet for keeping a delivery delivered to the addressee, comprising:

a delivery storage unit for storing the delivery that is delivered to the addressee;

a locking unit for locking the delivery storage unit;

a secret key input unit for inputting the secret key of the addressee; and

an unlocking unit for unlocking the delivery storage unit, when the addressee is identified as a result of authentication of the addressee carried out on the basis of the secret key inputted by the secret key input unit, that is locked by the locking unit.

18. The delivery cabinet according to claim 17, comprising:

an addressee information input unit for inputting the addressee information for specifying the addressee;

an authentication data generating unit for generating authentication data by adding a digital signature created by using the secret key inputted by the secret key input unit to authentication information including the addressee information; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the authentication data generated by the authentication data generating unit to the authentication server that is communicatably connected to the delivery cabinet via the communication network;

wherein

the unlocking unit unlocks the delivery storage unit when the addressee is identified by the authentication server.

19. The delivery management system according to claim 17, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.

20. The delivery management system according to claim 18, wherein

the secret key of the addressee is readably stored in a medium that the addressee can carry with him or her, and

the secret key input unit is configured as a reading apparatus capable of reading the secret key from the medium.