Patent ID: 8401976

Claim:
A method for providing a dynamic image containing a delivery barcode that identifies a delivery address of a delivery item, comprising: receiving, at a server, a request for the dynamic image from a client, the request being associated with a user and comprising data, including at least an indication of a user-specified image path, to be converted to the delivery barcode and a specific delivery barcode format, wherein the dynamic image is generated in response to the client request, and does not exist prior to the client request; generating, by a processor, a delivery code based on address information associated with the user, wherein the address information was not provided to the client by the user; generating, by the processor, the dynamic image containing the delivery barcode, which contains information converted from the data, including the user-specified image path, and the generated delivery code; encoding the dynamic image containing the delivery barcode; and providing the encoded dynamic image containing the delivery barcode to the user-specified image path and to the client for application of the delivery barcode to the delivery item.