Shipment provider system
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1. A shipment system, the system including:
- a system including a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end including a computing system communicating, at least in part over the Internet, a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, the distal end including a producer of the perishables and a second computing system receiving the orders and controlling printing of the orders, a plurality of shipments from the distal end, each of the shipments including at least one of the perishables that is harvested, packed, and shipped to correspond to one of the orders.
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Abstract
A computing system receiving, from a wide area network, a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, the computing system processing the stream, the processing including controlling printing of the stream of delivery date-specific orders. Exemplary embodiments include, depending on the implementation, apparatus or system, communication systems, articles of manufacture, method of use and method of making, and corresponding products produced thereby, as well as data structures, computer-readable media tangibly embodying program instructions, manufactures, and necessary intermediates of any of the foregoing.
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68 Claims
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1. A shipment system, the system including:
a system including a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end including a computing system communicating, at least in part over the Internet, a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, the distal end including a producer of the perishables and a second computing system receiving the orders and controlling printing of the orders, a plurality of shipments from the distal end, each of the shipments including at least one of the perishables that is harvested, packed, and shipped to correspond to one of the orders. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A shipment system, the system including:
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a system including a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end including a computing system communicating, at least in part over the Internet, a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, the distal end including a facility producing the perishables and a second computing system receiving the real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, a plurality of shipments from the distal end, each of the shipments including at least one of the perishables that is packed and shipped to correspond to one of the orders. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer system including:
a computing system receiving, from a wide area network, a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, the computing system processing the stream, the processing including controlling printing of the stream of delivery date-specific orders. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A system processing a real-time stream of orders for perishables, the system including:
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a computing system;
an interface with a wide area network;
means for controlling the computer system to receive, through the interface, a real-time stream of orders for perishables, to process the orders, and to print the orders. - View Dependent Claims (37)
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38. A computer-readable media tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a computer in a system to perform the operations of:
controlling the computer system to receive a real-time stream of orders for perishables from a wide area network, to process the orders, and to print the orders. - View Dependent Claims (39)
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40. A computer system including:
a computer system arranged to receive information in real time and locate said information into a memory, the information including a plurality of orders, wherein some of the plurality of orders are delivery date-specific orders of at least one perishable, the computer system including at least one input device located for receiving the information from a wide area network, the computer system further including a plurality of printers, the computer system also including at least one processor and at least one computer program controlling the processor to sort the orders and print the orders to facilitate shipping corresponding to the orders. - View Dependent Claims (41)
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42. A computer system adapted for processing delivery date-specific orders, the computer system including:
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a provider computer system programmed to respond to a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, received from an e-commerce system, by facilitating shipment of some, but not all, of the orders, wherein;
if there is no intervention by the e-commerce system in fulfillment of one of the orders, the provider computer system defaults to facilitate a shipment corresponding to the one of the orders;
if there is intervention by the e-commerce system in fulfillment of the one of the orders, the provider computer system does not facilitate a shipment corresponding to the one of the orders - View Dependent Claims (43)
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44. A computer-aided method, the method including:
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receiving, from a wide area network, a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders; and
shipping to fulfill at least some of the orders. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. A computer-aided method including:
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sending, to a wide area network, a real-time stream of status information, the information corresponding to at least some of delivery date-specific orders; and
shipping to fulfill at least some of the orders. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68)
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