Patent ID: 11859986
Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for facilitating autonomous delivery using a delivery assembly secured to and transported by an autonomous vehicle, the delivery assembly having cubbies and a user interface, the user interface having a display, the method, performed by one or more processors, comprising:
determining a location of the delivery assembly based on sensor data collected by an onboard sensor suite of the autonomous vehicle;
determining a current use case for the user interface of the delivery assembly based on the location of the delivery assembly, from at least three use cases: a point of origination use case, a mid-point destination use case, and a customer user use case;
in response to determining that the current use case is the customer user use case, configuring the user interface to use a customer user configuration, wherein using the customer user configuration comprises:
authenticating and authorizing a customer user to access one or more items in a specific cubby of the cubbies, wherein the specific cubby stores the one or more items within a secured space during the transport of the delivery assembly by the autonomous vehicle; and
allowing the customer user to unload the one or more items from the specific cubby of the delivery assembly, including displaying an arrow in the display of the user interface that points in a direction of to the specific cubby of the cubbies for which the customer user is authenticated and authorized to access; and

in response to determining that the current use case is the point of origination use case, configuring the user interface to use a point of origination configuration, wherein using the point of origination configuration comprises allowing a retail user to load the one or more items into the specific cubby of the delivery assembly.