Method for environmentally-friendly shipping

• US 20090210313A1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James Joseph Jr. Corbett, James J. Winebrake
• Original Assignee: James Joseph Jr. Corbett, James J. Winebrake
• Inventors: Winebrake, James J., Corbett, James Joseph JR.
• Application Number:
  US12/070,405
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210313A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

A method for environmentally-friendly shipping including requesting a shipment of goods, identifying available shipping options, analyzing the available shipping options, presenting the available shipping options, selecting one of the available shipping options and shipping the shipment of goods via the selected available shipping option. The method also includes considering one or more environmental impact measures.

Claims

1. A method for environmentally-friendly shipping, said method comprising:

a. requesting a shipment of goods;

b. identifying available shipping options;

c. analyzing the available shipping options;

d. presenting the available shipping options;

e. selecting one of the available shipping options;

f. shipping the shipment of goods via the selected available shipping option wherein the available shipping options are analyzed using one or more environmental impact measures and wherein steps a. through e. are implemented using a microprocessor.

2. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the process of identifying available shipping options involves determination of environmental impacts from such shipping options.

3. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 2, wherein the environmental impacts from such shipping options include a determination of pollution emissions that result from the alternative shipping options.

4. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 2, wherein the environmental impacts from such shipping options include a determination of total mass emissions produced during the shipping process.

5. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 2, wherein the environmental impacts from such shipping options include a determination of mass emissions per distance produced during the shipping process.

6. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 2, wherein the environmental impacts from such shipping options are calculated using microprocessor-based programming that applies environmental information about a shipping mode and a shipping route.

7. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the available shipping options are analyzed through the application of microprocessor-based programming, including network optimization modeling, linear programming, and non-linear programming in order to determine the environmental impacts of the available shipping options.

8. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the identification of available shipping options is determined by a shipping decision authority.

9. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the analysis of available shipping options is performed by microprocessor-based programming using shipping mode characteristics to compare environmental impacts among identified shipping options.

10. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the analysis of available shipping options is performed by microprocessor-based programming using information about shipping methods to compare environmental impacts among identified shipping options.

11. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the analysis of available shipping options is performed by microprocessor-based programming using information about shipping routes to compare environmental impacts among identified shipping options.

12. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the analysis of available shipping options is performed by microprocessor-based programming using information about the shipper to compare environmental impacts among identified shipping options.

13. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the potential environmental impacts of each of the available shipping options are presented in order to provide the shipping decision authority comparative information on the potential environmental impacts of each of the available shipping options.

14. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein the presentation of available shipping options and their environmental impacts is provided by microprocessor-based output.

15. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein a shipping decision authority is allowed to select from the available shipping options.

16. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein a consumer requests a shipment of goods via the Internet.

17. The method for environmentally-friendly shipping of claim 1, wherein emissions credits are generated through the environmentally-friendly shipping option.