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US07766230B2 Method of shipping, tracking, and delivering a shipment of packages over an internet-based network employing the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from the point of pickup and completed while shipment is being transported to its first scanning point in the network, so as to sort and route packages using the original shipment number assigned to the package shipment
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通过基于互联网的网络运送，跟踪和交付包裹的方法，采用捕获运送文件图像和从拾取点开始的识别处理，并在装运期间将其运送到其第一个扫描点 网络，以便使用分配给包裹装运的原始装运号码对包裹进行分类和路由
- Patent Title: Method of shipping, tracking, and delivering a shipment of packages over an internet-based network employing the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from the point of pickup and completed while shipment is being transported to its first scanning point in the network, so as to sort and route packages using the original shipment number assigned to the package shipment
- Patent Title (中): 通过基于互联网的网络运送，跟踪和交付包裹的方法，采用捕获运送文件图像和从拾取点开始的识别处理，并在装运期间将其运送到其第一个扫描点 网络，以便使用分配给包裹装运的原始装运号码对包裹进行分类和路由
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Application No.: US11981748Application Date: 2007-10-31
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Publication No.: US07766230B2Publication Date: 2010-08-03
- Inventor: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud , Cameron Dee Dryden , Jeffrey Robert Smith , Robert Russell Rhodes, Jr. , Wayne Luke Gordon , Xiaoxun Zhu
- Applicant: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud , Cameron Dee Dryden , Jeffrey Robert Smith , Robert Russell Rhodes, Jr. , Wayne Luke Gordon , Xiaoxun Zhu
- Applicant Address: US NJ Blackwood US TN Collierville
- Assignee: Metrologic Instruments, Inc.,Fedex Corporate Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Metrologic Instruments, Inc.,Fedex Corporate Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Blackwood US TN Collierville
- Agent Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.
- Main IPC: G07B15/02
- IPC: G07B15/02
Abstract:
An Internet-based shipping, tracking and delivery network is deployed, wherein at the point of shipment pickup, digital images of shipping documents are captured and processed, shipping information graphically represented the digital images is extracted and encoded into digital image files, and these digital image files are transmitted to an application server and for storage in an information DBMS and subsequent recognition and processing, while the shipment is in transit, from the point of shipment pickup to the first scanning point. At the first scanning point, and subsequent sorting and routing hubs in the network, the original shipment number assigned to the package shipment and graphically represented in said shipping document images, is used to access the DBMS and retrieve recognized shipping information for use in sorting and routing each package in the shipment to its point of destination. By virtue of the present invention, network-assigned shipment tracking numbers need not be assigned, nor special labels generated, for package and delivery operations.
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