Creating group orders through geofencing

US10380535B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Siddharth Arora · Seattle, US
• Ruslan Anatolyevich Polyanskiy · Bothell, US
• Ashraf Alkarmi · Seattle, US
• Neha Gureja · Seattle, US
• Gustavo Euduardo Lopez · Seattle, US
• Pawan Lata Uppuluri · Issaquah, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 13, 2019
• Expiry date: Aug 30, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/12
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for an order management service. Orders may be correlated with an existing order to create a group order. The group order may include items picked up or delivered to the same or geographically proximate locations. Incentives may be used to incite participation in a group order, thereby saving on overall delivery costs.