Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Article handling
Reexamination Certificate
2001-05-16
2002-11-12
Valenza, Joseph E. (Department: 3691)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Article handling
C700S237000, C700S241000, C340S870030
Reexamination Certificate
active
06480758
ABSTRACT:
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
A package storage and delivery system includes electronically controlled lockers disposed at or near customer locations. Each locker is unlocked by a courier, preferably by means of a short-range transceiver or transmitter carried on the courier's person. The customer can unlock the locker and receive the delivered package. Cryptographically signed communications are employed along with nonvolatile usage logs to minimize the risk of loss of a package or fraud by courier or customer. The lockers may be stackable, permitting a delivery courier to add lockers in the event a customer receives too many deliveries to fit into a single locker. Each box has, of course, a physical location, and has associated with it an address code indicative of the physical location, for example by means of a human-readable or compressed representation of the precise latitude and longitude. A package delivered to such a box preferably bears the address code. A merchant can greatly reduce the risk of credit card fraud by requiring the use of such codes for the simple reason that a fraudulent transaction may be traced to a specific physical location.
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Crawford Gene O.
eBox Inc.
Oppedahl & Larson LLP
Valenza Joseph E.
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