Patent ID: 7409353

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for producing shipping labels, the method comprising: under control of a shipping label module executing on a client computing system that executes a Web browser, the client computing system separate from a remote computing system that executes a Web server, the Web browser operable to receive from the Web server a first uniform resource identifier having a scheme name and scheme data, the scheme name identifying a shipping protocol and configured to cause the Web browser to execute the shipping label module and to provide the scheme data to the shipping label module, the scheme data including shipment information and post-back information, producing, in accordance with the shipping protocol, a shipping label by: initiating output of the shipping label based on the shipment information; and posting information about the producing of the shipping label to a first code module provided by a first computing system remote and separate from the client computing system, based at least in part on the post-back information.