CREATING PRE-ORDER CATALOGS BASED ON REAL-TIME INVENTORIES AND CARRIER-RELATED DATA

摘要

A pre-order system allows a passenger to pre-order products from a dynamically generated product catalog based on real-time supply inventories at the departure location of the passenger's vehicle and to have those selected products be delivered to the passenger while the vehicle is in-transit. At the request of a passenger, the pre-order system determines, using the passenger's itinerary and other data of the passenger, the physical product supply inventories available at the departure location in real-time and available to be loaded onto the vehicle on which the passenger will depart. In response to a passenger selection, the pre-order system automatically generates a vehicle service order, a packing inventory list, and a loading plan for the passengers vehicle that are all used to ensure the pre-order products may be delivered to the passenger while in-transit.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for automatically generating, in real-time and based on a pre-order of products, an updated optimized vehicle service order associated with a specific vehicle, the vehicle service order including at least a particular set of products to be loaded onto the specific vehicle before departure, the method comprising:
receiving, via a digital communication network, a request for a passenger to pre-order one or more products before the departure of a specific vehicle, wherein i) the passenger is scheduled to depart on the specific vehicle, ii) the one or more products are to be delivered in-transit to the passenger after the departure of the specific vehicle, and iii) the passenger is associated with passenger itinerary data that includes at least a departure location of the specific vehicle; determining, using the passenger itinerary data, products available for in-transit delivery based on a real-time supply inventory of items physically available at the departure location associated with the passenger itinerary data, the supply inventory including items supplied by one or more suppliers; transmitting, via the digital communication network, the determined products available for in-transit delivery on the specific vehicle; receiving, via the digital communication network, a selection of one or more desired products to be delivered in-transit to the passenger after departure of the specific vehicle, the selection of the one or more desired products being a subset of the available products; and generating, in real-time and using the received selection of the one or more desired products, an updated vehicle service order for the specific vehicle that includes at least the selection of the received selection of the one or more desired products.