Patent ID: 8477345

Claim:
A method for producing a label that can be applied onto a mailpiece, the method comprising: providing a data service via a network node, the data service being performed in a provider server of a service provider; performing a one-time printing of the label via a control program, such that an intelligent document is transmitted from the provider server via a network to a user client, wherein: a program module is incorporated into the intelligent document; the program module is configured to create displayable information indicating a result of a checking step, or of an additional checking step in order to check whether a precondition has been met within the intelligent document; the intelligent document is an intelligent PDF (iPDF) comprising the displayable information, wherein an unambiguous document ID is embedded into the iPDF, and the displayable information comprises static content and dynamic content, wherein incorporation of the dynamic content into the intelligent document is carried out separately and at a different time from incorporation of the static content; at least one of the checking steps comprises querying the provider server to check whether contents of the intelligent document have been printed; and the one-time printing being done if a network connection exists between the user client and the provider server, and if, on the basis of a query to the provider server, it has been ascertained that that label had not been printed before; transmitting a message from the user client to the provider server when the label is printed for the first time; and logging the printing in the provider server in response to the message.