Patent ID: 7567912

Claim:
A method of secure and reliable automatic recognition of threshold condition satisfaction related to international reporting of shipment movement, the method including; exposing a registration module via a public or private network; registering computerized data sources in a plurality of countries involved in international shipment movement to report the shipment movement, including establishing a secure connection, authenticating the computerized data source and exposing a reporting module via the public or private network consistent with assigned roles for the computerized data sources; establishing a computerized database of particular threshold conditions and required particular supporting logistical documents; computing the particular threshold conditions of interest and associated logistical document collection requirements by automatically translating INCO shipping terminology as applicable to particular shipment movements; accepting from the computerized data sources reports of the particular shipment movements and automatically linking the reports to the required particular supporting logistical documents provided by the computerized data sources; accepting an electronically submitted invoice and automatically linking the invoice to the particular shipment movements; and monitoring, using a computer, the reports and comparing them to the threshold conditions, notifying at least one interested party who is not moving shipments that the particular shipment movement has reached the particular threshold condition and that the required supporting logistical documents have been linked, and exposing the linked supporting logistical documents and the invoice to the interested party.