Selecting Best-Fit Digital Lockers For Packages

摘要

Techniques are provided for receiving a request to store an item at a locker facility; determining a first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items at a first locker facility; receiving data that indicates item-physical-dimensions of the item; determining whether, based at least in part on the item-physical dimension of the item and locker-physical-dimensions of each locker compartment from the first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items, one or more first locker compartments from the first plurality of locker compartments are available; and if so, selecting a first locker compartment from the one or more first locker compartments; determining a first locker identifier of the first locker compartment from the one or more first locker compartments; and generating and transmitting a first response message, which includes the first locker identifier of the first locker compartment.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a locker manager configured to:
receive a request to store an item at a locker facility;determine a first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items at a first locker facility, wherein each locker compartment, from the first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items at the first locker facility, has locker-physical-dimensions;receive data that indicates item-physical-dimensions of the item;determine whether, based at least in part on the item-physical dimension of the item and the locker-physical-dimensions of each locker compartment from the first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items, one or more first locker compartments from the first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items have locker-physical-dimensions that are the same as or greater than the item-physical dimensions of the item;in response to determining, based at least in part on the item-physical dimension of the item and the locker-physical-dimensions of each locker compartment from the first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items, that one or more first locker compartments have first locker-physical-dimensions that are the same as or greater than the item-physical dimensions of the item:
select a first locker compartment from the one or more first locker compartments that have locker-physical-dimensions that are the same as or greater than the item-physical dimensions of the item;determine a first locker identifier of the first locker compartment from the one or more first locker compartments that have first locker-physical-dimensions that are the same as or greater than the item-physical dimensions of the item; andgenerate and transmit a first response message, which includes the first locker identifier of the first locker compartment.