发明名称 Digital locker delivery system
摘要 Techniques are provided for determining, by a sensor, a weight of an item placed in a locker compartment; transmitting, to a locker controller, data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment; receiving, from the sensor, the data indicating the weight; transmitting the data from the locker controller to a locker manager; receiving, from the locker controller, the data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment; receiving at the locker manager a reference weight for the item; verifying the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment based at least in part upon the received data and the reference weight for the item placed in the locker compartment; and generating and transmitting a report message indicating whether the item has been delivered to the locker compartment.
申请公布号 US9453758(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.09.27
申请号 US201414339386 申请日期 2014.07.23
申请人 Ricoh Company, Ltd. 发明人 Motoyama Tetsuro
分类号 G01G19/52;G01G19/414 主分类号 G01G19/52
代理机构 Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP 代理人 Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP ;Kulczycka Malgorzata A.
主权项 1. A system comprising: a plurality of locker managers; a plurality of locker controllers; a plurality of sensors; a plurality of locker compartments; an intermediary device that stores a plurality of associations between a plurality of locker identifiers and a plurality of reference weights of items; wherein a sensor, of the plurality of sensors, is configured to: determine a weight of an item placed in a locker compartment, of the plurality of locker compartments; andtransmit, to a locker controller, of the plurality of locker controllers, data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment; wherein the locker controller, of the plurality of locker controllers, is configured to: receive, from the sensor, the data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment; andin response to receiving, from the sensor, the data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment, transmit the data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment to a locker manager of the plurality of locker managers; and wherein the locker manager, of the plurality of locker managers, is configured to: receive, from the locker controller, the data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment;determine a locker identifier of the locker compartment in which the item is placed;generate a request for providing a reference weight of the item;wherein the request includes the locker identifier;send the request, including the locker identifier, to the intermediary device;in response to receiving, from the intermediary device, a response to the request, retrieve, from the response, the reference weight of the item; verify the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment based, at least in part, upon the data indicating the weight of the item placed in the locker compartment and the reference weight of the item; and generate and transmit a report message indicating whether the item has been delivered to the locker compartment.
地址 Tokyo JP