Patent ID: 7822618
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: A47G,G06Q,G07C,G07F

Abstract:
1. A home delivery package collecting/delivering system allowing a home delivery carrier to collect and deliver a package from a home delivery consignor sending the package to a home delivery consignee receiving the package based on transmission and reception of information via a network, the home delivery package collecting/delivering system comprising: home delivery boxes used by customers for storing the package therein, each home delivery box having a box door switchable between a locked state and an unlocked state by a lock; card readers respectively provided for the home delivery boxes, each reading information recorded on a first memory card used when the home delivery carrier picks up the package stored in a home delivery box and information recorded on a second memory card used when the home delivery carrier puts the package into a home delivery box; and customer terminals connected to a home delivery carrier terminal of the home delivery carrier via the network, for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the respective card readers, wherein the first memory card is produced by a carrier terminal of a home delivery carrier to pick up the package from the home delivery box of the home delivery consignor, based on information output from the customer terminals; the second memory card is produced by a carrier terminal of a home delivery carrier to put the package into the home delivery box of the home delivery consignee, based on information output from the customer terminals; and the home delivery carrier unlocks the box doors of the home delivery boxes by the first and second memory cards so as to pick up the package from and put the package into the home delivery boxes; and wherein a home delivery box of a customer serves as a home delivery consignor box when the home delivery box stores a package to be picked up therefrom and serves as a home delivery consignee box when the home delivery box stores a package brought thereto, wherein the first and second memory cards are produced by the carrier terminal or carrier terminals so as to include information transmitted from both the consignor and consignee via the network, and the first memory card includes at least a consignor password necessary to unlock the lock of the home delivery box of the consignor, and the second memory card includes at least consignee password necessary to unlock the lock of the home delivery box of the consignee.