A system and method for providing an indication of an anticipated time of arrival of a courier at a predetermined waypoint

摘要

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING AN ITEM TO ONE OF A PLURALITY OF COURIERS A system 1 for providing an indication of the anticipated time of arrival of couriers at selected waypoints that have been earlier allocated to those couriers. System 1 also allocates a plurality of items 2 to one or more typically geographically spaced apart couriers 3 having respective communications devices in the form of handheld mobile computers 4. The computers 4 provide courier location signals that include courier location data. This courier location data, in this embodiment, takes the form of a courier location data records 5 containing, amongst other things, GPS data that is contained within an alpha numeric field 6 that is indicative of the geographic location 7 of the respective courier. Computers 4 visually display respective target indicia 8, where indicia 8 provides a visual indication of at least one waypoint 9 for the respective courier. (Figure 1)