DETERMINING A DELIVERY LOCATION AND TIME BASED ON THE SCHEDULE OR LOCATION OF A CONSIGNEE

摘要

Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for programmatically determining/identifying a delivery location and time based on the schedule of the consignee. One example embodiment may include a method comprising receiving shipping/parcel information/data, the shipping/parcel information/data indicative of an item/parcel to be delivered to a consignee by a carrier, determining whether consignee schedule information/data is accessible, the consignee schedule information/data comprising information/data indicative of a consignee and information/data indicative of a location and an associated time at which the consignee has indicated an ability to receive an item, and providing, to a client device, via a network, a delivery location and a delivery time, the delivery location and the delivery time determined between the consignee schedule information/data and the default delivery location and the estimated time of delivery.

主权项

1. A method for providing information identifying where and when delivery of an item is to occur, the method comprising:
receiving shipping information for an item, the shipping information (a) indicating the item to be delivered to a consignee by a carrier and (b) comprising at least a default delivery location and estimated time of delivery; determining whether consignee schedule information is accessible, the consignee schedule information comprising information indicating the consignee and information indicating one or more location-time pairs, each location-time pair indicating a location and an associated time at which the consignee has indicated an ability to receive an item; in an instance in which the consignee schedule information is not accessible, (a) querying a location tracking application on a consignee device associated with the consignee, (b) causing display of a prompt, via a user interface, for one or more portions of the consignee schedule information, the one or more portions of the consignee schedule information being at least one location-time pair, or (c) both; and determining a delivery location and a delivery time in the instance in which the consignee schedule information is not accessible.