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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Ashraf AlKarmi, Seattle, WA (US);
Yenchao Chua, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward Hon, Seattle, WA (US);
Praveen Krishnan, Redmond, WA (US);
Gustavo Eduardo Lopez, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Pardy, Seattle, WA (US);
Ruslan Anatolyevich Polyanskiy, Bothell, WA (US);
Pawan Lata Uppuluri, Issaquah, WA (US);
Evan Weiss, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory Forrest Wright, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A customer may specify, via a mobile device, a current location at which the customer desires to receive a delivery order for food items, as well as a preferred amount of time for the delivery. In response, food items that are available to be delivered to the current location within the preferred amount of time are identified and presented to the customer, including food items to be prepared/provided by merchants and food items current being transported by deliverers within sophisticated food item containers and/or delivery containers. Upon receiving a selection of one or more food items, a delivery of the ordered/selected food items may be facilitated. For instance, one or more instructions to prepare and/or transport the food item(s) may be transmitted to devices of merchants and/or deliverers.