Dormant shipping label
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorSrinivasan Raman
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Abstract
A system and method for a dormant shipping label system are described. A shipper registers with the dormant shipping label system. Partial shipping information for a shipment is received from the shipper. The dormant shipping label system generates a dormant shipping label based on the partial shipping information and provides the dormant shipping label to the shipper, the dormant shipping label to be activated with a shipping service provider that generated the dormant shipment label upon receipt of additional shipping information to compute a shipping cost of the shipment, and upon receipt of payment of the shipping cost.
Claims20
A dormant shipping label system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a shipper registration module, implemented with the at least one processor, configured to register a user with the dormant shipping label system;
- a shipping information module, implemented with the at least one processor, configured to receive partial shipping information for a shipment from the user;
- a dormant shipping label generator, implemented with the at least one processor, configured to generate a dormant shipping label based on the partial shipping information without calculation of a shipping cost and provide the dormant shipping label to the user, the dormant shipping label comprising an inactive shipping label before receipt of additional shipping information to compute the shipping cost of the shipment, and receipt of a confirmation of payment of the shipping cost, the dormant shipping label activated and valid with a shipping service provider after receipt of the confirmation of payment of the shipping cost.
A computer-implemented method for a dormant shipping label system comprising:
- registering a user with the dormant shipping label system;
- receiving partial shipping information for a shipment from the user;
- and
- generating, using a processor of a machine, a dormant shipping label based on the partial shipping information without calculation of a shipping cost and providing the dormant shipping label to the user, the dormant shipping label comprising an inactive and not valid shipping label before receipt of additional shipping information to compute the shipping cost of the shipment, and receipt of a confirmation of payment of the shipping cost, the dormant shipping label activated and valid with a shipping service provider after receipt of the confirmation of payment of the shipping cost.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, comprising:
- registering a user with the dormant shipping label system;
- receiving partial shipping information for a shipment from the user;
- and
- generating a dormant shipping label based on the partial shipping information and providing the dormant shipping label to the user, the dormant shipping label to be activated with a shipping service provider upon receipt of additional shipping information to compute a shipping cost of the shipment, and upon receipt of payment of the shipping cost.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.