Patent ID: 11907890
Assignee: DEUTSCHE POST AG
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause an apparatus at least to perform or control:
obtaining or causing obtaining an image of at least a part of a surface of a consignment unit;
deriving or causing deriving a representation of the at least a part of the surface from the image, the representation comprising a set of values respectively representing a corresponding set of height levels of corresponding sections of the at least a part of the surface;
generating or causing generating a string of characters based on the representation of the at least a part of the surface, the string of characters comprising at least a first portion representative of the set of height levels of the corresponding sections of the at least a part of the surface and a second portion generated based on a function of the representation and/or of the first portion of the string of characters; and
associating or causing associating information representing the string of characters with shipping information of the consignment unit.