Patent ID: 8812409

Claim:
A method in a shipment preparation computing system, comprising: facilitating preparation of a shipment of an order, by: receiving shipment preparation information from a bar code in a packing list, the shipment preparation information identifying a network resource identifier that identifies a first code module that is remote and separate from the shipment preparation computing system, wherein the shipment preparation information identifies the network resource identifier by including a name that is associated by a second code module with the network resource identifier, wherein the shipment preparation information is encrypted using a one-time key that is unique to the packing list; decrypting the shipment preparation information using the one-time-key that is unique to the packing list; decompressing the shipment preparation information; retrieving, based on the name, the network resource identifier from the second code module, wherein the retrieving is performed after the decrypting and the decompressing of the shipment preparation information; communicating, using the network resource identifier identified by the received shipment preparation information from the bar code, with the first code module to obtain information for the preparation of the shipment of the order; and communicating, using the network resource identifier identified by the received shipment preparation information from the bar code, with the first code module to cause the first code module to persistently store in a data repository status information about the preparation of the shipment of the order; and initiating the shipment of the order based on the shipment preparation information received from the bar code in the packing list.