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Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 09, 2017
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventor:

Paul Berenberg, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 9/00103 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01); G07C 9/00182 (2013.01); G07C 9/00904 (2013.01); H04N 7/188 (2013.01); G07C 2209/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Features are disclosed for accurately and efficiently identifying whether a location is secured after unattended delivery of an item. The features include receiving, from an access control device, information identifying a secured state for the access control device. The features include capturing, via a monitoring device at the physical location, monitoring data of the physical location such as one or more images. The features include determining that the monitoring data includes a representation of at least a portion of a surface indicium such as a one-dimensional barcode. Features are described for transmitting, to at least one communication device, a message identifying an error state for the physical location such as an alert that the physical location may be unsecured.


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