Patent ID: 11961037
Assignee: GLOBAL STICKS EXPRESS, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for configuring an electronic shipping label device to be attached to an item to be shipped, the method comprising:
receiving, at a system server, from a portable electronic device, an initiation request corresponding to a shipment of an item using the electronic shipping label device, the initiation request transmitted in response to the portable electronic device receiving a request to initiate the shipment at a graphical user interface operated on the portable electronic device;
transmitting a shipping request to a third-party system, the shipping request including shipping parameters corresponding to the shipment;
receiving shipment information from the third-party system in response to the shipping request, the shipment information comprising a third-party shipping label image;
determining a layout for a custom shipping label image for display on the electronic shipping label device, the custom shipping label image comprising a set of custom label elements and the layout specifying target dimensions and a position on the custom shipping label image for each of the set of custom label elements;
analyzing the third-party shipping label image to identify a set of third-party label elements;
identifying a transformation for each of the set of third-party label elements;
generating each of the set of custom label elements by performing a respective transformation on a corresponding third-party label element in accordance with a respective set of target dimensions of the layout;
generating the custom shipping label image using the set of custom label elements and the layout; and
transmitting the custom shipping label image to the portable electronic device, the portable electronic device configured to transmit the custom shipping label image to the electronic shipping label device for display at an electronic paper display of the electronic shipping label device.