Patent ID: 7624025

Claim:
A computer-implemented method in a server computing system for facilitating the production of a shipping label, the method comprising: causing the shipping label to be produced by a client computing system that is separate and remote from the server computing system, by, transmitting, to the client computing system, a first uniform resource identifier comprising a scheme name and scheme data, the scheme name identifying a shipping protocol and configured to cause a shipping label module to be executed on the client computing system, the scheme data including a second uniform resource identifier that identifies a first code module that is separate and remote from the client computing system, the shipping label module configured, upon execution, to produce the shipping label in accordance with the identified shipping protocol by: communicating, based on the second uniform resource identifier, with the remote first code module to obtain information for production of the shipping label and/or for transmission of information about the production of the shipping label; and initiating output of the shipping label based at least in part on the scheme data.