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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2018
United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Kalin Robinson, Johns Creek, GA (US);
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Computerized locker banks and related computing systems, according to various embodiments, are adapted to track consignee-specific and non-consignee-specific data regarding the pickup of parcels from particular locker banks (or other alternate delivery locations) and to use that information to forecast inventories for the particular locker banks over time. For example, the system may use this information, and/or other suitable information, to generate a set of projected inventories for a particular locker bank for each sequential two-hour block of time on a particular day. This information may be used to determine which locker bank to route a particular parcel to. This may be especially useful in the context of 'not-in-one' deliveries in which a delivery driver unsuccessfully attempts to deliver a parcel to a consignee's primary delivery address and the parcel is re-routed to a locker bank or other alternative delivery location for later pickup by the consignee.