Video Shipment Monitoring

• US 20100274728A1
• Filed: 04/24/2009
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Refinement Services LLC
• Original Assignee: Refinement Services LLC
• Inventors: Kugelman, Neil
• Application Number:
  US12/429,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20100274728A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/80
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for conducting remote business transactions between a client and an entrepreneur that include generating records including video verification of some or all aspects of the remote business transaction. According to one aspect of the system, the client sends a plurality of items to the recipient. Upon reception of these items, the recipient creates an inventory of the items, including video verification of the inventory. Such video verification is included in a stored electronic record of the remote business transaction. Via any suitable telecommunications network, this electronic record, including the video verification of the transmitted inventory, is accessible by the client.

Claims

1. A method of generating a record of a remote business transaction comprising:

receiving one or more items which are in a sealed container;

opening the sealed container;

performing a video verification of an inventory of the items;

estimating a monetary value of the items;

calculating an offer price based the monetary value of the items; and

grouping the video verification of the inventory of the items and the offer price as the record of the remote business transaction.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote business transaction is associated with a transaction identification number included in the record of the remote business transaction.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein video information of measurements of the items is included in the record of the remote business transaction.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein, on a route taken by the items which are sealed as they move from the sender to the recipient, a video capture device, placed at a point on the route at which the items which are sealed experience a change in custody, captures a video information about a status of the items which are sealed.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein video information of the record of the remote business transaction includes a time and date stamp;

a transaction identification number stamp; and

a stamp of a result of one of the measurements.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a recipient of the items which are sealed has a website and a sender of the items has the ability to view the record of the remote business transaction by entering a login name and password on a login page of the website.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the recipient of the items which is sealed is an enterprise which buys a precious metal and the items include jewelry.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein performing an estimation of the monetary value of the jewelry comprises:

receiving a current price of the precious metal;

for each item of jewelry, measuring a mass and a purity of the item of jewelry and multiplying the current price, the mass of the item of jewelry, and the purity of the item of jewelry as an estimated monetary value of the item of jewelry; and

taking the sum of the estimated monetary value of each item of jewelry over the complete set of jewelry.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein third party information is used to undertake the estimating of the monetary value of the items.

10. A system of generating a record of a remote business transaction involving one or more items which are sealed, comprising:

a video capture device;

a logic on a computer readable medium to implement a monetary evaluation metric; and

a transaction record server,

wherein the video capture device captures a video verification of an inventory of items;

the logic to implement a monetary evaluation metric determines an offer price for the items; and

the offer price for the items and the video information are grouped as the record of the remote business transaction on the transaction record server.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the remote business transaction is associated with a transaction identification number included in the record of the remote business transaction.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein video information of measurements of the items is included in the record of the remote business transaction.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein a recipient of the items which are sealed has a website and a sender of the items has the ability to view the record of the remote business transaction by entering a login name and password on a login page of the website.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the recipient of the items which are sealed is an enterprise which buys a precious metal and the items include jewelry.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein third party information is used as an input to the monetary evaluation metric.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the input to the monetary evaluation metric comprise:

a current price of the precious metal; and

for each item of jewelry, a mass and a purity.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the monetary evaluation metric comprises:

a summation, over the jewelry, of a product of the mass, the purity, a fixed decimal percentage, and the current price of the precious metal.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the recipient of the jewelry has disclosed to the sender of the jewelry the current price of the precious metal before the jewelry is sent.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein, on a route taken by the items which are sealed as they move from the sender to the recipient, a video capture device, placed at a point on the route at which the items which are sealed experience a change in custody, captures video information about a status of the items which are sealed.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the video information of the record of the remote business transaction includes a time and date stamp;

a transaction identification number stamp; and

a stamp of a result of one of the measurements.