Patent ID: 7376571

Claim:
A system comprising: a host computer configured to perform logistics management tasks for managing freight shipments, wherein each of the logistics management tasks requires completion of a corresponding set of activities by a remote user; and a user interface module generating a user interface having a plurality of windows for accessing the host computer to perform the logistics management tasks, wherein the user interface module generates each of the plurality of windows for performing the logistics management tasks to include an item selection region to receive criteria for selecting one or more of items associated with the freight shipments, one or more activity regions to receive activity data for the activities, and an action input region to receive action input specifying one of the logistics management tasks, and wherein, in response to receiving the action data via one or more of the activity regions of a single one of the windows, the host computing system processes the activity data captured within the single one of the window to complete the one of the logistics management tasks specified within the action input region of the single one of the windows.