Patent ID: 7233682
Filing Date: 2007-06-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for security screening a package, which comprises the steps of: (a) providing at a first packing station a package having initial contents which are different and packaged based upon a computer system recorded packaging configuration of the initial contents into the package; (b) providing a first image from the computer system of the package showing the initial contents based upon the packing; (c) sending the package to a shipping station for a commercial carrier remote from the first packing station to be shipped; (d) scanning the package at the remote shipping station; (e) creating a second image of the package from the scanning without opening the package showing the contents; (f) comparing the second image with the first image by remotely accessing the first computer image; and (g) segregating the package if the second image differs at least a predetermined amount from the first image.