US 11,915,188 B2
Delivery server, settlement system, computer readable recording medium, and transmission method
Kenji Okazaki, Toyota (JP); Masato Endo, Chofu (JP); Mayumi Kurita, Tokyo-to (JP); Masashi Toritani, Tokyo-to (JP); Kumiko Matsuura, Tokyo-to (JP); Takayuki Shikoda, Tokyo-to (JP); Masaaki Otsuka, Kawasaki (JP); and Yoshikazu Ishii, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/228,281.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-076223 (JP), filed on Apr. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0334746 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); G06Q 20/10 (2012.01); G06Q 40/02 (2023.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/108 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3676 (2013.01); G06Q 40/02 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delivery server comprising:
a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to:
transmit arrival information of a product to a user terminal carried by a user who has ordered the product;
transmit, when unattended delivery is instructed by the user terminal, unattended delivery information to a home delivery terminal of a delivery person who delivers the product, and request a signature of the user, the unattended delivery information including an image for display on a display of the home delivery terminal;
transmit signature information to the home delivery terminal in response to receiving the signature information regarding the signature of the user from the user terminal;
receive delivery completion information of the product from the home delivery terminal;
acquire, from a sensor, position information indicating a current position of the home delivery terminal after receiving the delivery completion information;
determine, based on delivery object information regarding the product and the position information, whether or not the delivery person is away from a delivery destination of the product by a predetermined distance or more;
notify the user terminal that the delivery person is away by the predetermined distance or more when the delivery person is away by the predetermined distance or more;
determine whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed after receiving the delivery completion information from the home delivery terminal; and
notify the user terminal that the predetermined time has elapsed after the delivery person left when the predetermined time has elapsed after receiving the delivery completion information.