Patent ID: 7738995

Claim:
A system located at a central hub facility for routing parcels to a location within the central hub facility for inspection, the system comprising: a customs processing computer system comprising: at least one processor configured, prior to a plurality of parcels arriving at the central hub, to: (a) receive search criteria defined by a user, the search criteria to be used to identify parcels that satisfy the search criteria; (b) store the search criteria; (c) access data records associated with the plurality of parcels from memory located at the central hub facility, each of the data records comprising status information related to each parcel, the status information indicating a hold status; (d) use the search criteria to search the data records to identify a set of search results comprising each parcel of the plurality of parcels that satisfies the search criteria; (e) display the set of search results to the user; and (f) receive a selection of one or more particular parcels identified in the set of search results by the user for inspection; and (g) alter the hold status in each data record associated with parcels not selected by the user to a release status; and the at least one processor configured, in response to the plurality of parcels arriving at the central hub, to: (a) access the data records associated with the plurality of parcels from the memory located at the central hub facility; (b) route the one or more particular parcels that have the hold status to the inspection location; and (c) route for delivery any of the plurality of parcels that have the release status.