公开(公告)号：US20150363843A1

公开(公告)日：2015-12-17

申请号：US14694313

申请日：2015-04-23

Applicant: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.

Inventor： GREG LOPPATTO ,  CHARLENE THOMAS ,  CHRIS GRUBB

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q10/08

CPC classification number: G06Q30/0283 ,  G06Q10/083

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for programmatically determining/identifying for determining a delivery time and/or cost for an item to be delivered and allowing customer selection of one of the delivery windows. One example embodiment may include a method comprising receiving customer location information/data indicative of a customer location, querying at least one of (a) a historical database, (b) a dynamic database, (c) predictive database, or (d) a combined database to determine a cost associated with each of the one or more time frames/periods and whether any pick-up, transportation, sortation, and/or delivery criteria associated with the cost, and providing the one or more time frames/periods and the cost associated with each of the one or more time frames.

Abstract translation: 提供了系统，方法，装置和计算机程序产品，用于以编程方式确定/识别用于确定要传送的物品的传送时间和/或成本，并且允许客户选择一个传送窗口。 一个示例性实施例可以包括以下方法：接收客户位置信息/指示客户位置的数据，查询（a）历史数据库，（b）动态数据库，（c）预测数据库或（d） 组合数据库以确定与一个或多个时间帧/期间中的每一个相关联的成本以及与成本相关联的任何接收，运输，分类和/或递送准则以及提供一个或多个时间帧/时段和 与一个或多个时间帧中的每一个相关联的成本。