Provisional Patent Application Draft

BAGGED™: Free to Move™

INVENTOR: JEROME MOGIE GLOVER | DATE: August 20, 2025

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to the field of logistics and travel services, specifically concerning the transportation of personal luggage for travelers.

The current process of traveling with luggage is fraught with inefficiencies and consumer pain points. It typically involves transporting heavy bags to an airport, waiting in long queues for check-in, incurring airline baggage fees, and enduring further delays at crowded baggage carousels upon arrival. This process is physically demanding, a significant source of stress, and detracts from the overall travel experience.

While traditional courier services exist, they operate as disparate, non-integrated systems that are not seamlessly woven into a modern traveler's journey. There remains a clear and unmet need for an integrated, user-friendly method to manage personal luggage from a traveler's origin point directly to their final destination, thereby removing the traveler from the physical logistics chain entirely and creating a truly frictionless travel experience.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is a novel, computer-implemented method and system for providing an end-to-end luggage logistics service. The core of the invention is the strategic integration of a user-facing software application with the existing, large-scale logistics network of a major third-party e-commerce provider (e.g., Amazon, Alibaba, etc.).

The method allows a user to book a luggage pickup from their home or office through a simple interface, have the luggage collected by a driver from the e-commerce logistics network, track the luggage in real-time, and arrive at their destination to find their luggage securely waiting for them. By repurposing and integrating a vast, pre-existing logistics infrastructure for a novel use case, the invention creates a new "free to move" paradigm for travelers, branded as BAGGED™ Free to Move.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The system architecture comprises a user-facing client application (a mobile or web application), a central backend server, and an Application Programming Interface (API) integration with at least one third-party logistics and e-commerce provider. The method proceeds as follows:

  1. Initiation and Booking: A user initiates the process through the client application. The user may authenticate using their existing credentials from the third-party e-commerce partner (e.g., "Login with Amazon Prime") to simplify account creation. The user provides key travel data, including a pickup address (origin), a destination address (e.g., hotel, vacation rental), and travel dates.
  2. Scheduling and Label Generation: The backend server processes the user's request and communicates via API with the third-party logistics provider's system to schedule a pickup, treating the luggage as a standard parcel within their network. A unique, scannable shipping label is generated and delivered digitally to the user, who then attaches it to their luggage.
  3. Pickup and Induction into Logistics Network: A driver from the third-party logistics network arrives at the user's origin address, scans the unique label, and inducts the luggage into the logistics network. This initial scan triggers a notification to the user, confirming successful collection.
  4. Real-Time Tracking: As the luggage transits through the partner's logistics network, it is scanned at multiple key points. The system's backend server continuously ingests this tracking data via the partner's API and translates it into a user-friendly, real-time visual representation of the luggage's status and location within the client application.
  5. Last-Mile Delivery and Confirmation: Upon arrival at the logistics hub nearest the user's destination, the luggage is routed for final delivery by a local driver from the partner network. Upon successful delivery to the specified destination, a confirmation (e.g., photo, signature) is logged, and the user receives a definitive notification that their luggage is securely waiting for them.

POSSIBLE EMBODIMENTS AND VARIATIONS

  • The service may be integrated with specialized delivery subprocesses, such as secure delivery to temporary rental properties ("Airbagged™" method) or synchronized delivery to a user's rental vehicle.
  • The system may collect and anonymize transit data to build a predictive model of human mobility patterns for ancillary business intelligence purposes.
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