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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2023
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tushar Agrawal, West Fargo, ND (US);
Jeremy R. Fox, Georgetown, TX (US);
Uri Kartoun, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to an embodiment, shipment splitting and variable delivery is provided. The embodiment may include identifying a consumption rate of a user for an item. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more future user locations. The embodiment may further include calculating a consumption quantity of the item at each location based on the identified consumption rate. The embodiment may also include calculating a usage time and date at which each calculated quantity is needed by a user at each location. The embodiment may further include calculating a shipment time for each quantity to be received at each location by each calculated usage time and date. The embodiment may also include performing one or more shipments, at each calculated shipment time, of packages, each containing a quantity of the item based on each calculated consumption quantity, to each location corresponding to each calculated consumption quantity.