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Electronic shipping notifications

  • US 8,311,952 B1
  • Filed: 03/02/2012
  • Issued: 11/13/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing notification of impending delivery of a shipment shipped by a shipper to a shipping address specified by a customer, the method comprising:

  • periodically querying, by a computer system, a shipper system to obtain status information for the shipment with each query;

    responsive to status information obtained with a periodic query indicating an estimated delivery date for the shipment, halting, by the computer system, the periodic queries and scheduling a restart time for periodic queries of the shipper system responsive to the estimated delivery date;

    restarting, by the computer system, the periodic queries of the shipper system at the scheduled restart time to obtain updated status information with each restarted periodic query;

    calculating, by the computer system, an estimated delivery time for the shipment based at least in part on updated status information obtained with a restated periodic query; and

    transmitting, by the computer system, the estimated delivery time to a customer device.

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