Patent ID: 7444290

Claim:
A modified call-tag system capable of fulfilling an anywhere to anywhere package shipping request, the system comprising: (A) a customer computer executing: a client application configured to generate and transmit a call-tag record, said call-tag record comprising at least one of a call-tag request or an anywhere to anywhere request, said call-tag request comprising data identifying a buyer and a unique merchant identifier, and said anywhere to anywhere request comprising a first shipping address and a second shipping address; and (B) one or more servers in electronic communication with said customer computer, said one or more servers executing: (1) a carrier application configured to: receive said call-tag record from said client application; determine whether said call-tag record includes either said anywhere to anywhere request or said call-tag request; in response to determining that said call-tag record includes said anywhere to anywhere request, generate a shipping label request based at least in part on said anywhere to anywhere request and said first and second shipping addresses of said anywhere to anywhere request; and in response to determining that said call-tag record includes said call-tag request: (1) determine an address associated with said buyer based at least in part on said data identifying said buyer, (2) use said unique merchant identifier to query a merchant database in order to determine an address associated with said merchant, and (3) generate a shipping label request based at least in part on said call-tag request and said buyer and merchant addresses; and (2) a shipping label application in electronic communication with said carrier application, said shipping label application configured to receive said shipping label request and to generate a shipping label based at least in part on said shipping label request, said shipping label indicating that said package should be shipped from a first location to a second location, wherein said first and second locations correspond to said first and second shipping addresses, respectively, when said shipping label request is based at least in part on said anywhere to anywhere request, and said first and second locations are based at least in part on said buyer and merchant addresses, respectively, when said shipping label request is based at least in part on said call-tag request.