WO2001031593A1 - Systeme de livraison en commerce electronique - Google Patents

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WO2001031593A1
WO2001031593A1 PCT/AU2000/001330 AU0001330W WO0131593A1 WO 2001031593 A1 WO2001031593 A1 WO 2001031593A1 AU 0001330 W AU0001330 W AU 0001330W WO 0131593 A1 WO0131593 A1 WO 0131593A1
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    • G07F17/12—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for means for safe-keeping of property, left temporarily, e.g. by fastening the property comprising lockable containers, e.g. for accepting clothes to be cleaned
    • G07F17/13—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for means for safe-keeping of property, left temporarily, e.g. by fastening the property comprising lockable containers, e.g. for accepting clothes to be cleaned the containers being a postal pick-up locker
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  • the present invention relates generally to a delivery system, and particularly, but not exclusively, to a delivery system and method for facilitating delivery of products ordered by way of a computer network, such as the Internet.
  • a computer network such as the Internet.
  • the following description will be given particularly in relation to the use of the Internet for ordering products for delivery utilising the system and method of the present invention. It will be appreciated, however, that the present invention is not limited to a particular computer network, and any computer network could be used to order products for delivery, such as an intranet, or any wide area network.
  • a product may remain undelivered because of inadequacies of the postal service, for example, and even though the purchaser may be provided by the merchant with a receipt for payment, the merchant may be reluctant to provide further product in place of the undelivered product, as the purchaser can provide no real proof that their product has not been delivered.
  • the merchant is open to fraud by unscrupulous purchasers who could deny that their product was actually delivered, and request further product. This could be prevented by courier delivery and signature, but this is still not entirely devoid of the possibility of fraud, and also requires additional expense on behalf of the merchant or purchaser in paying for the courier.
  • Yet another problem with the present system of ordering by the Internet or other computer networks, with delivery via messenger or courier service is the high cost of multiple small deliveries resulting from a relatively low level of order aggregation and fulfilment.
  • the present invention provides a delivery system for enabling delivery of an ordered product, comprising a means for identifying a token and allocating the token to a product order, recording means for recording the token, a product storage device including storage means where ordered product may be deposited and input means enabling an intended recipient of the product to input the token, comparison means for comparing the token input by the intended recipient with the recorded token and means for releasing the product from the storage means to the intended recipient when the input token and recorded token are the same .
  • the product is ordered via a computer network, such as the Internet.
  • the order may be made by a user (intended product recipient) via his PC and the Web page of a merchant subscribing to the delivery system.
  • a plurality of merchants subscribe to the delivery system and products ordered via any one of the plurality of merchants may be delivered using the system of the present invention.
  • each merchant has access to (it may be on their Web server or they may have access to a further Web server) the means for identifying a token.
  • the token may be any token. It may be a number, for example, that may be generated and allocated to a particular order, and provided to the user over a computer network. Alternatively, it may be a credit card number or account identifier (or membership number) of the intended recipient. Where the user's token is a credit card number or unique account identifier which has been pre-assigned, there will be no need to provide the token as the user will already possess it. In this case, the user will be required to present the credit card number or enter their account identifier to the system.
  • a delivery means is provided for delivering the product.
  • the delivery means may be a simple courier system requested to pick up the product, e.g. from the merchant's warehouse and take the product to the product storage device nearest to the location of the intended recipient.
  • the system includes a plurality of product storage devices, so that there are product storage devices in many locations .
  • the courier is preferably provided with a key (which may be a code, card key or other identifier such as barcode, retina scan or fingerprint scan) which enables access to the storage means of the storage device so that he can deposit the product ordered by the intended recipient.
  • the delivery means may preferably be a "fulfilment" company, whose task it is to deliver products to the system and perhaps also to maintain the product storage devices.
  • the product storage device is also connected to the computer network, (e.g. Internet) to enable access to the recorded token.
  • An input means such as a key pad, card reader or touch screen, is provided for the product storage device.
  • the product storage device compares the input token with the recorded token and if the tokens compare, then the product is released to the intended recipient.
  • the input token may be a membership number or other unique identifier relating to the individual or the account, such identifier being the means to relate to orders for collection by that account.
  • the product storage device includes a payment means, such as an EFT connection and card reader which enables a user to pay by debit or credit card via the secure EFT network.
  • a payment means such as an EFT connection and card reader which enables a user to pay by debit or credit card via the secure EFT network.
  • the system of the preferred embodiment of the present invention therefore preferably enables certain delivery of product for the intended recipient and also enables payment on delivery as an alternative to payment before delivery.
  • the user may be alerted that the delivery has been made, e.g. by electronic mail.
  • One method of doing this is to have registered accounts or order files stored in the central database with e-mail addresses stored with the account and order information.
  • the central database is accessed and the e-mail is transmitted.
  • the product storage device produces a transaction record or causes a transaction record to be produced, which can act as a proof of delivery.
  • an identification label may be provided on the product and the product storage device includes means for reading the identification label, which means may be present in the storage means.
  • the identification means may be a bar code label, for example, which reproduces the token (where the token is a code) .
  • the sensing means reads the token and can confirm to the system that the product has been delivered to the product storage device.
  • the system of the present invention further includes a return product storage device for receiving return product, the return product storage device being connectable to the computer network, and a means for advising the computer network when a return product has been deposited, so that the return product may be collected.
  • the return product storage device may be the same device that is used for product delivery, or may be a different device.
  • the system further includes a means for identifying a return token associated with the return product, the return token enabling identification of a user returning the product.
  • the account of a user can therefore be credited when the system is aware that the user has returned the product.
  • the credit could be on return of the product to the product storage device or when the merchant/owner/host has received the product and validated that the product is the genuine return product.
  • the user may log onto the computer network using, for example, their own computer, and advise the system that they wish to return a product. In return they are given the return token, which the system also stores.
  • the user On attending at a product storage device to return the product, the user enters the return token on an input means on the product storage device.
  • the system compares the input token with the identified token and if they match, allows the user to return the product to the storage device and confirms that the product has been returned.
  • a receipt may be provided to the user.
  • no token is provided to the user.
  • a simple return product storage device for example, may include a bin with a sensor which detects when a product is returned to the bin. This is communicated over the network to alert a merchant or fulfilment company to attend at the bin to collect return product.
  • the product may have an identifier which enables the system to identify the user for e.g. crediting the account of a user.
  • the present invention further provides a system for enabling return of product from a user to a merchant, comprising a return product storage device for receiving return product, the return product storage device being connectable to a computer network, and means for advising the computer network when a return product has been deposited, whereby the return product may be collected and returned to the merchant.
  • the deliver and/or return system of the present invention is very different from, for example, a post office box system.
  • the users address is the PO box and he has a key to access his own personal PO box.
  • the product storage devices are preferably generic to be used for products for any user who utilises the system. They are preferably not dedicated to particular users.
  • the system of the present invention also envisages utilising infrastructure that may already be in place.
  • luggage locker systems could be networked to the present system for return of product
  • vending machines as described in the applicants earlier applications could also be used as product delivery devices .
  • the product storage devices of the present invention are secure .
  • the present invention further provides a method of delivering goods ordered from merchants remotely, comprising the steps of identifying a token and allocating the token to the product order made from the merchant, recording the token, delivering the product to a product storage device having an input means which may be operated by the intended recipient of the product, and storage means within which product can be deposited, enabling access by the product storage device to the recorded token, and arranging the storage device so that when the intended recipient inputs the token, the product is released to the intended recipient.
  • the computer network is the Internet and the merchants offer products for sale via the World Wide Web.
  • the token is allocated and the user is advised of the token (or, alternatively the token might be the user's credit card number) , as discussed above in relation to the system aspect of the present invention.
  • the product is then delivered to the device, the intended recipient is preferably informed that the product has been delivered to the device and can then attend at the device and obtain the product. Further, the intended recipient is also able to pay at the device.
  • a credit card or other payment card could also be used as a token, as discussed above.
  • a credit card could then be used as payment and also as a token, so that a single presentation of the card enables product delivery and payment.
  • the present invention yet further provides a method of facilitating return of a product, comprising the steps of receiving from a computer network an advice that a return product has been deposited in a return product storage device connected to the computer network, whereby the return product may be collected.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a delivery system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a front view of a storage device which may be utilised in the system of the embodiment of Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a system utilising remote ordering devices which can be used as storage devices in accordance with the present invention
  • Fig. 4 is a flow diagram showing example steps in the operation of a delivery system in accordance with the embodiment of Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating a process of returning a product in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 6 schematically illustrates a system for enabling the return of product in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates schematically a system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the system comprises a product storage device 1, which will be described in more detail later on, having storage means 201 (Fig. 2) in which goods can be deposited by an operative delivering the goods to the product storage device 1.
  • storage means 201 FIG. 2
  • the product is delivered directly to the address of the orderer.
  • delivery is to the secure product storage device 1.
  • the user 3 may order by way of his computer 4, from a merchants web page 2 provided by a web server 7, the product for delivery via the system.
  • the merchants web page includes or has access to an order means.
  • the order means includes a means for identifying a token, which means may be, for example a number generator for generating sequential numbers each time a product order is raised.
  • the token which as discussed above may be simple number code, is provided to the user 3 via the PC 4, and also recorded in the system. Note that in this example, the token may be recorded at a host device 6 which the product storage device 1 has access to via the Internet 5. Alternatively, the token may be sent to the product storage device 1 designated for delivery of the product by the user 3. On attending at the product storage device 1, the user 3 enters the token via input means 208 (Fig. 2) and the product is released from the storage means 201 to the user 3. Alternatively, a credit card, account number of membership number could be used as the means for identifying a person being authorised to collect an order placed for that account.
  • the system of this embodiment includes a plurality of product storage devices 1 connectable to the Internet as illustrated in Fig. 1.
  • the product storage devices have access to a host device 6 which includes storage means for storing data, including tokens generated by an ordering means that subscribing merchants have access to.
  • a plurality of merchants may subscribe to the system.
  • the merchants require a Web server 7 or access to a Web server 7 so that they can put a Web page on the Internet that can be accessed by the user 3 in order to order goods.
  • the merchants also require access to the order means.
  • the order means may be software provided to the merchants and running on their web server, or maybe software provided to the host 6 and provided on a separate web page which the merchants have a link to.
  • the token may be a simple number generated by the order means and allocated to the product order.
  • An alternative is for the credit card number of the user 3 to be used as a token or a part of the token.
  • the token may be encrypted for transmission over the network.
  • a fulfilment company (who may also be a manufacturer) 8 also has a system 8 connected to the Internet and on placing of an order at a merchant's Web page 2, the fulfilment company 8 is advised of the product order. Further, the token may be provided to the fulfilment company system 8 and utilised to generate an identification means, such as a bar code label, that can be affixed to the product or product packaging. An operative of the fulfilment company can then collect the product from a product warehouse 9 and transport the product to the selected product storage device 1. The product storage device 1 is selected depending on the location of the user 3 and the order means will generally require this information to be input by the user 3.
  • more than one of the same product may be delivered to different storage devices at a number of locations, and the user may be offered multiple locations to collect the product. This could depend on their location, on travel plans, eg. their route home, at the airport, at school.
  • the fulfilment company operative has access to the storage compartments 201 (Fig. 2) and, in order for security, may need to enter a code, such as PIN, utilising PIN pad 208 barcode utilising a barcode scanner or other identifying means.
  • the operative also enters the number of products that he is depositing and the doors to the requisite number of compartments 201 are opened.
  • the products are placed inside.
  • Sensor means (not shown) within the compartments 201, e.g.
  • the product storage device accesses the recorded token, which is stored at the host 6, via the Internet 5 and compares the tokens and is therefore able to confirm to the host 6 that the product has been delivered.
  • the host 6 then generates an electronic mail which is forwarded to the user's 3 computer 4, alerting the user that the product has been delivered to the product storage device 1.
  • Host 6 may also advise the merchant's Web server 7 confirming delivery.
  • the token may be stored in memory at the product storage device as an alternative to requiring access on-line to the host 6.
  • the user attends at the product storage device enters the token via the PIN pad 208, or if the token is the credit card, swipes the credit card via card reader 210A, the product storage device 1 compares the token input by the user with the recorded token and if there is a match, releases the product to the user by opening the door of the - Ir respective compartment 201.
  • the product storage device also advises the host 6 via the Internet that the user has taken delivery of the product, and the host can then advise the merchant that delivery has been made.
  • the use of a token therefore enables the product to be tracked from ordering all the way through to delivery.
  • the product storage device 1 is also connected to a payment network, in this case an electronic funds transfer network 10.
  • a payment network in this case an electronic funds transfer network 10.
  • the user 3 can therefore pay on delivery of the product, rather than the prior art systems where the user must pay before the product is delivered and risk the fact that the product may not be delivered at all.
  • the user may, for example, swipe their credit or debit card in the card reader in order to enable payment, and the product may not be released until payment has been made.
  • payment can be made on account via entry of an account number and PIN at the storage device.
  • the storage device matches the account number entered with numbers that have been downloaded to the product storage device via the Internet or numbers that are stored on the host 6 or fulfilment company system 8 and are matched via Internet communications .
  • the fulfilment company may optionally e-mail confirmation of dispatch and an ETA of delivery, to various parties involved, including the computer 4 of the user 3, on receiving the order .
  • the sensor in the compartment can sense that the goods have been removed and generate a transaction record, to absolutely confirm that product has been delivered.
  • the transaction record can be generated by the sensor in the compartment.
  • product tracking is essentially the same apart from the fact that a fulfilment company 8 is not involved and delivery is unnecessary.
  • the fulfilment company 8 may be involved in re-stocking the product storage device 1 with further products which can be ordered later on.
  • the merchant Web page 2 may flag that the product is available in the storage device.
  • the merchant may be a supplier using an e- commerce system provider such as Ariba, Netscape or Commerce One, etc.
  • the product storage device may be any device which can be connected to a network and includes storage means for storage of product, input means, means for releasing the product from storage means and enabling deposit of the product in storage, sensor means for reading the identification means on products and means for enabling payment to an EFT network (in the preferred embodiment) .
  • the co-applicant Imaging Technologies Pty Limited
  • remote ordering devices which include these features and others, and these remote ordering devices with some modification are suitable as product storage devices in accordance with the present invention.
  • a "one stop shop" remote ordering device 100 is illustrated schematically in block form, which is able to operate as a product storage device 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the device is arranged to enable a user to purchase a product which may be vended on site or which may be ordered from a host 101 to which the device 101 is connectable by a communication means 102 (which may be a telephone connection, for example, a dedicated line, or other type of network connection, such as the Internet.
  • the Internet is the preferred network connection medium
  • the device also enables the user to enter and purchase information (e.g. from a connection 105 to the Internet 106) and is operable without cash.
  • connection 104 may be checked by connection 104 to a bank network 103 (e.g. EFT) .
  • a bank network 103 e.g. EFT
  • the device is shown connected directly by a link 103 to the bank network 104.
  • the bank network 104 may be accessed via the host 101.
  • Host 101 and remote ordering device 100 together comprise a remote ordering/vending system.
  • the device may be positioned at any convenient location, in a store, an office, an office lobby, a factory, a shopping centre, on a street corner, for example, to enable multiple users access to the automated "one stop shop" facility offered by the device and system.
  • the remote ordering/product storage device 100 includes a control means 110, which comprises a computer for controlling local operation of the device.
  • the computer includes appropriate software for controlling the device.
  • the device 100 further comprises a card reader 111 for identifying a user by means of magnetic card swipe; a data entry means 112, which may comprise any means for entering data, such as a keypad, audio interface for digitising voice, a printer 113; a video display 114 (which in this embodiment is a touch-screen and therefore also operates as a data entry means 112); a database 115, which may contain product means, information, information on users etc., (in this embodiment the database 115 is in memory in the device 100, and will in fact be stored in the computers memory where the control means 110 comprises a computer, but the database 115 or part of the database, such as user information, for example, may be stored off- site, at the host device 101, for example, and the device 100 may have access to the database, with only an amount of the database that is required for immediate use of the device 100 being maintained on site) ; a storage and dispensing means 116 for storing and dispensing product locally on site (in the present invention, for operation as a product storage device, sens
  • Fig. 2 is a front view of a device in accordance with Fig. 3, illustrating the hardware configuration.
  • the hardware comprises the following components, and reference numerals included in brackets indicate how the components relate to functional blocks of Fig. 1.
  • a magnetic card reader 210a (card reader 111) is provided for user identification. Note that a smart card reader or the like may be provided in the alternative or in addition to the card reader 210A.
  • a VDU (visual display unit) 210 (display 114) , is provided to provide information to the user relating to operation of the device.
  • the colour monitor 210 may have a touch-screen facility so that the data entry means 112 also comprises a touch-screen input. This facilitates interaction with the customer.
  • a customised PIN pad 208 and interface buttons 208a are also provided in the illustrated embodiment, but all the functionality of the PIN pad 208 and button 208A may be replaced by the touch-screen 210 in other embodiments and the PIN pad 208 and buttons 208a may be dispersed with.
  • Storage means are provided in the form of compartments 201 (116) , each having a separately lockable door (116) . It will be appreciated that the storage means could have many other configurations (see applicants earlier PCT application PCT/AU93/00416) .
  • each compartment 201 door includes a latch which is controllable by the control means 110 to release the door so that it can be opened so that a user can take a product stored therein or replace a returned product in the compartment and then shut the door.
  • An appropriate mechanism for retaining and opening the doors is described in PCT/AU93/00416 , and will not be described any further here.
  • other types of storage means may be provided in compartments with doors, although these are the preferred storage means.
  • a product may be delivered by way of a chute (see earlier PCT application PCT/AU93 / 00416 ) from a stack of products.
  • the device also mounts a computer module 220 (control means 110) .
  • the computer module 220 is inside the cabinet and inaccessible to the user except via the user input means. Components of the computer module 220 are schematically illustrated. A person skilled in the art will be able to realise an appropriate configuration of the computer module 220 components from this description.
  • Computer module 220 comprises an INTEL based "pentium" processor 221; a 56K band external modem 222 (communication means 118) for communication with the host device 300; 4000 MB or large hard disc drive 223, 3.5 inch floppy diskette drive and CDROM/DVD 224 and 128 MB of RAM 225, constituting a memory for the computer 220.
  • a sound card 226 for the reproduction of audio files is provided.
  • a suitable audio means is provided to reproduce sound including a speaker (not shown in the drawing) .
  • a video capability such as MPEG or quicktime for video images is also provided.
  • An input and output controller card 227 is provided for receiving signals indicative of products being removed from and placed in the compartments 201.
  • the input and output controller card 227 detects whether a product is returned or removed from a compartment and provides appropriate signals to the processor 221.
  • a receipt printer 228 (221) is also provided for printing user receipts.
  • the keypad 208, 208A may be any convenient type of keypad which will enable a user to carry out operation of the device. Generally, it will comprise numeric keys 0 to 9, scroll keys, to enable scrolling of a display appearing on the screen 210 and selection keys 208A to make a selection of a particular item appearing on the screen next to the particular key 208A. As discussed above, where a touch-screen interface is provided, as it is in the preferred embodiment, some keys may not be necessary or the keyboard may even be dispensed with entirely.
  • a bar code scanner 229 is also provided for scanning bar codes to identify products, (product identification means 117 ) .
  • the product delivery device 100 may be a low cost device which includes merely a means for inputting a token and storage means for storing a product.
  • the storage means need not even require a physical input means such as eg. a keypad on the storage device.
  • the input means could be a mobile communications device such as a cell phone, "Palm Pilot" (or other small computing device or portable computer) possessed by the user.
  • the user can use the mobile communications device to communicate via the Internet with the host device or product storage device.
  • the Mobile communications device (or auxiliary device) carried by the user contains and transmits the unique identifier (such as an order number, membership number or account number) which is matched with the unique token for the product stored in the storage device.
  • the mobile communications device therefore acts as the input means and the storage device merely needs a connection with the network.
  • the storage device may have means for communicating directly with the mobile communications device, such as infra-red communications means .
  • a user 3 consults a doctor and the doctor decides that the user requires a certain prescription drug.
  • the doctor accesses, via the Internet 5, a Web site 2 of a merchant who has a license to distribute pharmaceuticals and who also subscribes to the delivery system of the present invention.
  • the doctor orders the prescription drug for delivery to a product storage device 1 and enters location details of the intended recipient. The system then selects the appropriate product storage device 1 and advises the doctor.
  • the ordering means generates a token, in this case a five digit code number, which is allocated to the product order and also advises the doctor of the token.
  • the doctor provides the token to the intended recipient.
  • the token may also be provided to the host for storage in a database together with details of the product order.
  • the system alerts the fulfilment company that product delivery is required, and gives details of the location of a product storage device.
  • the fulfilment company 8 generates a bar code with the token, for attachment to the product at the product warehouse 8 when the operative picks up the product.
  • the fulfilment company operative then delivers the product (step 35) to the storage means in the product storage device 1.
  • sensor means within the compartment scans the bar code and then advises various parties via the Internet 1 that the product has been delivered to the product storage device 1 (step 36) .
  • the parties advised include (they may be advised via the host 6) :
  • step 37 The merchant 7, for the purposes of tracking the product delivery.
  • the intended recipient attends at the product storage device and enters the token via the input means 208.
  • the product is released to the intended recipient, and the system advises the above parties that the product has been delivered. Also, a receipt may be generated via receipt generating means . Release of the product may not be enabled until the payment has been made via card reader 210 and the EFT system 10.
  • the system of the present invention preferably enables a number of merchants to subscribe to a secure delivery system and has the advantage that users need not pay until the goods are delivered.
  • the user orders the product from a computer at home or in the office.
  • the storage device may also include a user interface which enables the user to order the product from the storage device, ie . over the Internet or any other network connection.
  • the product is ordered for delivery later, eg. the next day, when the user can return to the product storage device (or another product storage device with specified location) where the product has been delivered, and enter the token receive the product.
  • the user can order the product at the product storage device and specify it delivered to another location, eg. their home address.
  • the deliverer could then require the token from the user, before delivering the product .
  • the courier could carry a portable EFT device.
  • Portable EFT device could connect to the network.
  • Embodiments of the present invention may be utilised to facilitate product return as well as product delivery.
  • a product storage device 1 as described in relation to figures 1, 2 and 3, may be utilised for product return.
  • the system disclosed in the figure 1, in this embodiment may be utilised to alert the merchant that a product is to be returned or has been returned to a product storage device 1 (so that the return of product can be collected, for example) , and to provide the user with a receipt for the return of the product which later on can be used to enable application a credit return to the user, or can be used to directly provide credit to a user account.
  • FIG 5 operation of an embodiment of a product return system in accordance with the present invention will be described.
  • a user may have purchased a product which they have subsequently found to be faulty, or which they have decided that they do not want, and they wish to return to the merchant to obtain a refund or credit note for further products.
  • the product may or may not have been obtained by utilising the embodiment of the system described above.
  • the user accesses the merchant web pages 2 of the relevant merchant and advises them that they wish to return the product. This may be done by means of a web page form, for example, or any convenient means .
  • the form may require the user to identify the product or may not. Preferably, identification of the product is required and also identification of the user 3.
  • the order means 2 (which may be software on the merchant ' s web server 7 or may be provided via a link to the host 6 of the system, in a similar manner to the product delivery process described above) identifies product return token and provides the product return token to the user 3 via the PC 4 (step 51) .
  • the order means also advises the host 6 of the product return token.
  • the user attends at a product storage device 1 in their geographical locality.
  • the user utilises the user interface in order to enter the product return token to the product storage device 1.
  • the product storage device 1 is as described above in relation to figures 2 and 3.
  • a compartment 201 door opens and the user deposits the product into the compartment. The user closes the compartment door.
  • the merchant is advised via the system and host 6 that the product has been returned (step 53).
  • the fulfilment company is also advised of the product return.
  • the product storage device 1 in this embodiment issues the user 3 with a receipt, confirming return of the product. Where sensing devices are provided within the compartment 201, these can be used to sense that the product has been placed in the compartment and also confirm this to the merchant.
  • the fulfilment company may be, alternatively, advised by the merchant that the product is to be picked up.
  • the product storage device 1 and/or host 6 advise the fulfilment company 8 and merchant of the location of the product storage device and the fulfilment company representative attends at the product storage device and picks up the product (which they may do as part of a general servicing of the product storage device i.e. picking up a number of products and depositing others) .
  • the fulfilment company delivers the returned product to the merchant (step 54) .
  • the merchant credits a user account with a value for the returned product.
  • the user account may be a bank account and the credit may be via the Internet of via EFT, or it may be an account with the merchant e.g. crediting the user for purchase of further goods at a subsequent time.
  • the system allows for any type of user account to be credited.
  • the above example describes how a purchased product is returned because it is perhaps faulty or the user does not require it after all.
  • the system is also suitable for the return of hired products e.g. videos, DVDs, books and other products.
  • hired products e.g. videos, DVDs, books and other products.
  • the user account may not be credited, but a user database with the leasing merchant may be notified that the user has returned the product.
  • Various embodiments of this system and method may enable a number of variations on; a) how the user notifies the merchant of return of a product; b) the type of product storage device used for return; and c) how credit return to the user is dealt with.
  • Variations on the way that the user can notify the merchant of product return include the following: 1. the user may return the product to a product storage device and then advise the merchant via e.g. the Internet that the product has been returned, so that a fulfilment representative can attend at the device and pick up the returned product . 2.
  • the product storage device as described above in relation to figures 2 and 3 includes a communication means for communicating with the merchant computing system 7 and the host 6. The user attends at the product storage device with the product that they wish to return, and contacts the merchant 7 and/or host 6 via the interface on the product storage device 1, and enters the details of the returned product in a similar manner as discussed above.
  • the system provides the user with a returned product token which acts as a receipt .
  • the user need not themselves notify the merchant of product return.
  • the product may be physically associated with an identifier, such as e.g. a barcode on the product.
  • the product is returned to a product storage device 1 by the user.
  • a sensor in the product storage device may notify the merchant and/or host that a product has been returned.
  • the product is subsequently collected from the product storage device and returned to the merchant, who can identify from the identification means the user who the product was delivered to in the first place, and therefore can deal with any appropriate crediting of the users account.
  • the user returns a product to the product storage device 1.
  • the user enters into the product storage device 1 details of the product being returned and receives a receipt (token) in return.
  • the product storage device 1 subsequently notifies the merchant of return of the product, and the product can be subsequently picked up and the user credited.
  • token or identifier may be the same token as is used for product delivery if the product was delivered by the system of the present invention described above .
  • Credit may also be returned to the user in a number of different ways.
  • the system When the user returns the return product to the product storage device, the system operates to process credit to the user immediately and issue the credit to the credit, debit or account stored on file for the user, the user being a registered consumer/member of the system.
  • the product storage device 1 may be provided with a card-swipe and EFT connection to enable a count to be credited directly.
  • FIG 6 a plurality of return bins 400 are networked via the Internet to a host 6, a merchant system 7, a fulfilment system 8 (similar to the embodiment of figure 1) .
  • the return product drop bins 400 include a return slot 401 for receiving product and optical sensors (not shown) within the return slot.
  • a processor within the return product bin 400 records the time and date that return of a product is detected by the optosensor.
  • the host 6, merchant system 7, fulfilment system 8 may then be advised via the communications system. Note that the host 6 only may be advised and subsequently the host 6 may advise the merchant system 7 or fulfilment system 8, or any permutation of this .
  • a fulfilment representative can then attend at the bin 400 and remove the products.
  • the products may have identifiers e.g. barcodes, as discussed above, in order to identify the user that returned the product so that a user account can be credited or it can be confirmed (e.g. if the product is merely a hire product) that the user has returned the product.
  • the drop bin 400 does not in this embodiment include any facility for inputting a token. It nevertheless provides a simple system for enabling the return of product, which does not require as complex hardware as the product storage device of figures 2 and 3.
  • the product storage device having an interface to the system that the user can access (e.g.
  • Such as a product storage device described in relation to figures 2 and 3 may be associated with a simple product return bin such as the return bin 400 described in relation to figure 6.
  • the return bin may be connected by communications means to the relatively complex product storage device 1, which is in turn connected via communication means (e.g. the Internet) to the rest of the system.
  • a storage bin 400 may be associated with a single merchant e.g. each merchant may have their own product return bin. They may be directly networked to the particular merchant or via a host system which acts as a portal to the particular merchant. A plurality of bins may be connected to a complex product storage device such as described in relation to figures 2 and 3 , one bin for each merchant .
  • Product storage device whether it be a return bin, a device for delivery of product, or a combination of both, can take many different forms, and is not limited to the forms as discussed above.
  • Other forms may include:
  • a luggage system includes luggage storage compartments where a user can swipe a card and pay for a number of days storage.
  • a token (such as a security key or pin or password) is provided to the user on their entering their goods into the compartment. This token is used to release the goods.
  • Such a system could be used as a return product system, the luggage storage system being networked, as discussed above. It could also be used to deliver product to a user.
  • Both the product delivery system and product return system of this invention may include a database (which may be stored by the host system 6, for example) , which stores details of merchants that are registered with the system, locations of the devices (product return, product storage or combined devices), details of consumers that are registered with the system (users) and also details of fulfilment companies registered with the system. Provision of such a database enables the system to have intelligence. For example, a merchant may wish to use a particular fulfilment representative in order to collect or distribute product on their behalf. The database links the merchant with the preferred fulfilment company. Further, consumers may be registered only for particular merchants and the database would keep details of this .
  • the database may be utilised by the system when users access the database via their own computer, for example, to determine which merchants the user is connected with, (for example, if they are only connected with a selection of the subscribing merchants) . Further on return of products, the database can be used to select which merchant and which fulfilment company to send information that a return product has been returned.
  • the database may enable functionality such as, when a user is returning a product of a product storage device having an interface, to enable the user to select and identify a merchant out of many different subscribing merchants enabling return of an item to one of a number of merchants. For example, a unique storage compartment (or number of storage compartments) are allocated to the merchant that the returnee selected to return an item to and the merchant is notified of a pending collection. When the merchant or representative of the merchant arrives at the device and identifies themselves with a token unique to that merchant, the relevant storage compartment will be opened so that the product can be extracted.
  • the system can be set up to enable merchants, fulfilment partners and consumers to be identified as separate groups so that only transactions and information relevant to them is available to them.
  • the return transactions are recorded with a status and the system automatically updates the status of the transaction when an action occurs, e.g. as in the following table.
  • a token can be any token, including credit card, debit card number of a person, a password, a PIN code or e-mail address. Accounts credited or debited could include hotel guest accounts (where the token could be a room key) , or a communication service provide a billing account where the token could be a phone number and PIN code or e-mail account and PIN code .
  • communications system used is the Internet. It should be noted that any communications system could be used e.g. a wireless communications system, CSML, EDI, etc. It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that numerous variations and/or modifications may be made to the invention as shown in the specific embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as broadly described. The present embodiments are, therefore, to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive.

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L'invention concerne un système de livraison, en particulier pour la livraison de produits commandés sur réseau informatique (par exemple, sur Internet) en commerce électronique. L'exécution est le problème majeur du commerce électronique, car la livraison des produits commandés sur Internet est lente et non fiable. Il est proposé de fournir une pluralité de dispositifs de stockage de produit fiables en divers emplacement géographiques. De préférence, les dispositifs de stockage sont mis en réseau via un système hôte. Lorsqu'un utilisateur achète un produit via le site Web de tel ou tel vendeur, un jeton est établi par le système (via une liaison avec l'hôte ou via un moyen de commande sur le système du vendeur). L'utilisateur reçoit le jeton. Le système assure la livraison du produit à un dispositif de stockage de produit au voisinage géographique de l'utilisateur. Il est possible de notifier la livraison à l'utilisateur, lequel s'oriente vers le dispositif de stockage de produit concerné, introduit le jeton via une interface, et le dispositif en question libère le produit pour l'utilisateur. Il est possible d'utiliser ce dispositif pour un retour de produit au système.
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