DELIVERING ORDERED ITEMS TO AN APPROPRIATE ADDRESS

• US 20150026089A1
• Filed: 10/06/2014
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: SPIEGEL, JOEL R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,785,908 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/330
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0838 Historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders

Abstract

A method, system, and computer-readable medium for automatically determining appropriate delivery information for one or more items of an order or potential order is described. A variety of types of information can be considered when determining what delivery information is appropriate for one or more items, such as a type of the items, the particular items, relationships of the items to other items, information about the purchaser, and/or information about the recipient. In addition, the automatic determination of an appropriate address for an item being ordered or potentially ordered by a user can be made in a variety of ways, such as based on inferences from past behavior when ordering items, on inferences from information about the item and from available delivery information for the user, and/or on previous explicit indications from the user.

Claims

1-69. -69. (canceled)

70. One or more computer memories collectively containing a data structure for use in determining appropriate delivery addresses for items, the data structure comprising a multiplicity of entries, each entry associated with a user and containing information indicating an association between an item type and one or more delivery addresses that are associated with that user,

so that when a user indicates one or more items of an item type, one or more of the delivery addresses that are associated with that item type in an entry associated with that user can be selected as appropriate delivery addresses for the indicated items.

71. The computer memories of claim 70 wherein the data structure contains entries associated with multiple users.

72. The computer memories of claim 70 wherein the data structure contains multiple entries for at least one user such that each of the entries contains information for a distinct item type.

73. The computer memories of claim 70 wherein each of the entries further contains information indicating one or more delivery manners for use with at least one of the delivery addresses that are associated with the item type for that entry.