Patent ID: 7337411

Claim:
A system comprising: a host computer that maintains respective text-based identification codes for a set of selectable items associated with freight shipments; and a client computer executing a user interface module that presents a single window having: a text input field to receive one of the identification codes that, when submitted by a user, selects a corresponding one of the plurality of selectable items, a first selection mechanism that presents a first subset of the selectable items for selection by the user, wherein the user interface module automatically updates the first subset of the selectable items to include the selectable items that correspond to the identification codes previously submitted by the user in the text input field, a search input, and a second selection mechanism, wherein, in response to activation of the search input when the text input field is empty, the second selection mechanism presents all of the set of the selectable items for selection by the user, and wherein, in response to activation of the search input when the text input field contains text, the user interface module utilizes the text contained within the text input field as a narrowing parameter to determine a second subset of the selectable items.