Patent ID: 7341186
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for confirming the delivery of one or more items by a delivery service to a delivery location, comprising: a placard located at the delivery location, already posted at the delivery location at time of delivery, comprising at least one machine-readable unique location indicia; a machine-readable unique item indicia associated with each of the one or more items; a data acquisition and storage device having a scanning element and capable of transferring information, wherein the at least one machine-readable unique location indicia is scanned by the scanning element and each of the machine-readable unique item indicia are scanned by the scanning element and the location indicia is linked to each of the machine-readable unique item indicia to create linked item indicia; and a server, to which information about said location indicia and said linked item indicia is transferred from said data acquisition and storage device and made accessible over a network via the server.