Patent ID: 8756166

Claim:
A method for stored item distribution to a user, the user associated with a user identifier, the method comprising: by a computing system: receiving a delivery request associated with the user identifier comprising a requested time, a requested location, and a requested number of containers; facilitating delivery of a set of containers to the requested location at the requested time, the set of containers comprising at least the requested number of containers, each container of the set associated with a unique storage identifier; receiving a set of storage identifiers from a delivery device remote from the computing system, each storage identifier of the set of storage identifiers associated with one of the set of containers; associating the set of storage identifiers comprising a first storage identifier with the user identifier in response to receipt of the set of storage identifiers from the delivery device; receiving a media description in association with the first storage identifier from a user device associated with the user identifier, the user device remote from the computing system; storing the media description as a storage description for the first storage identifier; setting a fill status of the first storage identifier to packed; receiving a removal request comprising storage identifiers associated with empty fill statuses from a pickup device remote from the computing system; removing the storage identifiers having an empty fill status from the set of storage identifiers associated with the user identifier; receiving a summary request associated with the user identifier; in response to receipt of the summary request, sending the storage description of the first storage identifier; receiving a retrieval request associated with the user identifier comprising a selection associated with the storage description, a retrieval location, and a retrieval time; and facilitating delivery of a first container identified by the first storage identifier to the retrieval location at the retrieval time.