Patent ID: 7778880

Claim:
A storage system for managing groups of property items, the system comprising: a plurality of storage units, each storage unit being assigned to a corresponding customer and being sized to contain for storage every item of a group of various miscellaneous property items associated with the customer, every property item of the group having been moved from a site of the corresponding customer, and each storage unit being either a room in a storage facility or a portable storage container; a database including a computerized inventory for each assigned storage unit, each inventory including a record corresponding to each property item in the corresponding group of items associated with the customer and being stored in the corresponding assigned storage unit, and each record including a photographic image of the corresponding stored item; and a link between each customer and the database, the link including an Internet website that provides access for each customer to view the photographic images of the computerized inventory of the corresponding group of property items; and wherein the website includes at least one interactive element and a group of selectable instructions, the at least one interactive element being configured to allow each customer to select one or more photographic images, which correspond to one or more property items from the corresponding group of property items associated with the customer and being stored in the corresponding assigned storage unit, and to select instructions from the group of instructions concerning the one or more property items, and to send the selected instructions to personnel of the storage facility.