Method and apparatus for stipulating a delivery and/or pickup position

• US 20160342944A1
• Filed: 05/20/2016
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Post AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Post AG
• Inventors: Wiechers, Ralph, Busecke, Matthias
• Application Number:
  US15/160,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20160342944A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0836 Recipient pick-ups

Abstract

The disclosure relates, inter alia, to a method comprising the steps of providing, by a user apparatus, an activable user interface for stipulating a delivery and/or pickup position, capturing of a position of the user apparatus when the user interface is activated, and communication of delivery and/or pickup position information associated with the captured position from the user apparatus to a delivery service apparatus.

Claims

1. A method comprising

providing, by a user apparatus, an activable user interface for stipulating a delivery and/or pickup position,

capturing a position of the user apparatus when the user interface is activated, and

communicating delivery and/or pickup position information associated with the captured position from the user apparatus to a delivery service apparatus.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the delivery and/or pickup position information indicates a delivery and/or pickup position for delivery of a shipment into a vehicle.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the activable user interface is an activable element of a user interface of the user apparatus.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the activable user interface comprises a button, particularly a key button.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the activable user interface is activable by a user input.

6. The method according to claim 1, additionally comprising:

providing, by the user apparatus, a further user interface for stipulating a delivery and/or pickup period,

obtaining delivery and/or pickup period information by the further user interface at the user apparatus, and

communicating the obtained delivery and/or pickup period information from the user apparatus to the delivery service apparatus.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the delivery and/or pickup period information indicates a delivery and/or pickup period for delivery of a shipment into a vehicle.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the further user interface is an element of a user interface of the user apparatus.

9. A user apparatus comprising:

means configured to perform the method according to claim 1 or comprising respective means for performing the steps of the method according to claim 1.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer program that, when the computer program runs on a processor, causes the processor to perform and/or to control the method of claim 1.

19. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining delivery and/or pickup position information from a user apparatus at a delivery service apparatus,

associating, by the delivery service apparatus, the obtained delivery and/or pickup position information with a delivery agent apparatus,

communicating the obtained delivery and/or pickup position information from the delivery service apparatus to the delivery agent apparatus.

11. A method comprising:

obtaining delivery and/or pickup position information from a user apparatus at a delivery service apparatus,

associating, by the delivery service apparatus, the obtained delivery and/or pickup position information with a delivery agent apparatus,

communicating the obtained delivery and/or pickup position information from the delivery service apparatus to the delivery agent apparatus.

12. The method according to claim 11, additionally comprising:

obtaining delivery and/or pickup period information from the user apparatus at the delivery service apparatus, and

communicating the delivery and/or pickup period information to the delivery agent apparatus.

13. The method according to claim 11, additionally comprising:

generating and/or selecting access authorisation information at least in part on the basis of the obtained delivery and/or pickup position information and/or the obtained delivery and/or pickup period information,

communicating the generated and/or selected access authorisation information to the delivery agent apparatus.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the access authorisation information authorises access for the delivery into a vehicle.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the access authorisation information has a limited temporal and/or spatial validity and/or is valid for a limited number of accesses.

16. The method according to claim 11, additionally comprising:

providing a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer program that, when the computer program runs on a processor, causes the processor to perform and/or to control the steps of;

providing, by a user apparatus, an activable user interface for stipulating a delivery and/or pickup position,

capturing a position of the user apparatus when the user interface is activated, and

communicating delivery and/or pickup position information associated with the captured position from the user apparatus to a delivery service,

for obtainment at the user apparatus.

17. A delivery service apparatus comprising:

means configured to perform the method according to claim 11 or comprising respective means for performing the steps of the method according to claim 11.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer program that, when the computer program runs on a processor, causes the processor to perform and/or to control the method of claim 11.

20. A system comprising:

a user apparatus comprising means configured to perform the steps of;

providing, by a user apparatus, an activable user interface for stipulating a delivery and/or pickup position,

capturing a position of the user apparatus when the user interface is activated, and

communicating delivery and/or pickup position information associated with the captured position from the user apparatus to a delivery service apparatus; and

a delivery service apparatus comprising means configured to perform the steps of;

obtaining delivery and/or pickup position information from a user apparatus at a delivery service apparatus,

associating, by the delivery service apparatus, the obtained delivery and/or pickup position information with a delivery agent apparatus,

communicating the obtained delivery and/or pickup position information from the delivery service apparatus to the delivery agent apparatus.