Patent ID: 7477132

Claim:
A method for operating an electronic parcel compartment system, whereby information of users of the electronic parcel compartment system is acquired via a user interface, the method comprising: assigning a registered user to a user group on the basis of the acquired information wherein the user group comprises a group of registered users having the same access profile to the parcel compartment system; enabling the registered user of the user group to have access to a selection of several functions of the electronic parcel compartment system via controls of the electronic parcel system depending on the user group to which the registered user belongs, effectuating control of access possibilities, whereby the user is given access to the particular starting menu of his user group, wherein at least one of certain parcel compartments and groups of parcel compartments are accessible only to certain user groups; and activating, after assignment of a registered user to at least one specific user group, a function that causes an essentially simultaneous opening of several parcel compartments.