Patent ID: 8374970
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An online, Internet-based, multi-carrier, multi-parcel shipping management computer system, said computer system programmed to: receive a request by a first user within an enterprise to ship a parcel, wherein the first user is designated in a memory accessible by the computer system as restricted from finalizing shipping labels, wherein the request comprises a set of partial shipment information, and wherein the set of partial shipment information comprises at least one of: a destination name, a destination address, a return name, a return address, or package information; in response to the request by the first user to ship the parcel: (A)(1) generate a printable bar-coded pre-processing traveler label, wherein the printable bar-coded pre-processing traveler label comprises at least a machine-readable code that corresponds to the request, (B) save in the memory accessible by the computer system, a relationship between the machine-readable code and the set of partial shipment information, and (C) print the printable bar-coded pre-processing traveler label, wherein said printed printable bar-coded pre-processing traveler label comprises an expression of the machine-readable code; receive an input for finalizing a shipping label for shipping the parcel from a second user within the enterprise, wherein the second user is designated in the memory accessible by the computer system as authorized to finalize shipping labels, wherein said input comprises the machine-readable code; retrieve from the memory the set of partial shipment information according to the machine-readable code; and generate a shipping label comprising at least a first item of information from the set of partial shipment information and according to the input from the second user.