DELIVERY STORAGE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR THE SAME

• US 20080313054A1
• Filed: 08/29/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyu Nam Lee
• Original Assignee: Kyu Nam Lee
• Inventors: LEE, Kyu Nam
• Application Number:
  US12/201,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20080313054A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2029/147 the receptacle comprising heating or cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 29/141 comprising electronically controlled locking means
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/02 Hotels; Motels; Coffee-houses; Restaurants; Shops; Department stores
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00769 with data transmission performed by wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00896 specially adapted for particular uses
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/23 by means of a password
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

An apparatus, system and method for delivery storage. The delivery storage apparatus includes an outer opening to allow an individual delivering the goods to place the articles of food directly into the delivery storage apparatus disposed at a side of a house without the presence of the owner. The delivery storage apparatus also includes an inner opening to allow the owner to retrieve the articles of food from the delivery storage apparatus.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A method for conducting a transaction over the Internet and delivering goods to a customer, the method comprising:

placing an order for an item at a website by a customer, placing the order comprising inputting a delivery address and a customer-defined password at the website;

delivering the item to the delivery address;

transmitting the customer-defined password to unlock a storage apparatus at the delivery address; and

placing the item in the storage apparatus.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the item is a food or a foodstuff.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the item is a perishable food or a perishable foodstuff and the placing the item comprises placing the perishable food or the perishable foodstuff in a cooled compartment of the storage apparatus.