Method of and apparatus for shipping, tracking, and delivering a shipment of packages employing the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from the point of shipment pickup and completed while the shipment is being transported to its first scanning point, to shorten the delivery time of packages to point of destination

US7810724B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• METROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS, INC. · US
• FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES INC. · US

Inventors

• Ole-Petter Skaaksrud · Germantown, US
• Cameron Dee Dryden · Riverdale, US
• Jeffrey Robert Smith · Westwood, US
• Robert Russell Rhodes, Jr. · Hingham, US
• Wayne Luke Gordon · Boston, US
• Xiaoxun Zhu · Marlton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2007
• Grant date: Oct 12, 2010
• Expiry date: Jul 17, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An Internet-based shipping, tracking, and delivery network supporting the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from a point of shipment pickup and completed while shipments are transported to its first scanning point in said network so as to significantly increase velocity of shipping information through the network, as well as reduce delivery time over the network.