ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCT DELIVERY

摘要

An order placement and delivery system is provided in which a final delivery address of a recipient is obscured or not known to a sender. The sender places an order for a gift against the unique sender identity, relays to the administrator a recipient's virtual contact address, and constructs a personal message which is routed to the virtual contact address. The point of origin of the personal message is inferred to be directly from the sender. The personal message forewarns the recipient that they will be messaged by the administrator to acquire a real-world physical address that will be used for physical gift delivery and stored in the database against the virtual contact address, such that future orders identifying the recipient's virtual contact address can be dispatched expeditiously to the recipient's physical address with reduced messaging overhead and without having to reveal the recipient's physical address to the sender.

主权项

1. A method of delivering a product to an order recipient having a real-world delivery address potentially unknown to a registered user responsible for placing an order for the product at an administration system configured to manage order transactions for registered users and to authorize delivery of products to order recipients, the method comprising:
over a communications network, communicating an order message from a communication device to the administration system, the order message including a unique sender identity associated with the registered user, a virtual recipient address of the order recipient and a transaction instruction related to the product to be delivered to said order recipient; at the communication device, generating at least part of a personalized message and initiating electronic communication thereof to the virtual recipient address; at the administration system, receiving the order message and approving delivery of said order subject to correlating the unique sender identity against a registered account for the registered user and settling the transaction instruction against the registered account; at the administration system, sending a downlink call message to the virtual recipient address, the downlink call message designed to solicit return of, or confirm, a real-world delivery address from the order recipient; at the administration system, subsequent to receipt of the requested real-world address in a message sent from the virtual recipient address, resolving a relationship between the virtual recipient address and the real-world delivery address and instructing delivery of the product to the real-world delivery address of the order recipient.