Patent ID: 8126917

Claim:
A method for controlling a transporting of an object, the object having at least one information item relating to a destination address to which the object is to be transported, a set of address components is predetermined and a predetermined address database is provided which in each case contains one computer-available record per destination address for a set of possible destination addresses, each record in the predetermined address database in each case includes one entry for each predetermined address component, the method comprises the steps of: detecting at least one destination address information item on the object by automatically performing the further steps of: displaying a screen form on a screen device of a detection computer, the screen form in each case containing one input field for each address component; performing at least once, the sequence of: after a user inputs into one of the input fields of the screen form, detecting a character string input into the input field and determining into which of the input fields the character string has been input; determining whether no record, exactly one record or several records of the predetermined address database are consistent with all previous user inputs, a record is consistent with all the previous user inputs when each character string input into the input field is contained in an entry which the record has for the address component to which the input field corresponds; checking whether a predetermined abort criterion is met; performing the sequence again if the abort criterion is not met, the abort criterion being met at least when exactly one record is consistent with all the previous user inputs; and triggering the transportation of the object to the destination address of the exactly one consistent record when exactly one consistent record has been found.