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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Applicant:
United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/28 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/0837 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06312 (2013.01); G06Q 10/083 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0832 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0835 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0836 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08345 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01); G06Q 20/407 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0233 (2013.01); G06Q 50/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for enabling users to reserve space at attended delivery/pickup locations to at least substantially guarantee that the attended delivery/pickup locations will have capacity to receive parcels requested to be delivered to them. In various embodiments, the system is configured to substantially automatically reserve space in response to receiving a request to delivery one or more parcels to a particular attended delivery/pickup location. In other embodiments, the system is configured to enable users to reserve space at attended delivery/pickup locations.