Patent ID: 7401030

Claim:
A system for tracking receipt and internal movement resulting in a delivery or other final disposition status of items such as packages within an organization, wherein each item is sent by a sender and received from a carrier to be delivered to a recipient, said system comprising: a) a portable data terminal programmed to: (i) record information regarding the receipt of the item, and (ii) record information regarding the internal movement of the item wherein the receipt information and the internal movement information are recorded with a data collection format; b) a base station for communicating with the portable data terminal for uploading electronic files for modifying the data collection format; and c) means for allowing a user to create one or more data collection formats at the base station, and to transmit the one or more data collection formats to the portable data terminal, wherein the portable data terminal can collect data in the one or more data collection formats transmitted by the base station.