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Electronic shipping label with updateable visual display

  • US 7,511,617 B2
  • Filed: 04/13/2005
  • Issued: 03/31/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A package shipping label comprising:

  • a unique package identifier;

    an electronically updateable visual display, said visual display configured to change upon the application of a localized electric field;

    a guide for interfacing with an external device, wherein the visual display is attached to the guide, and wherein the guide is configured to;

    slideably interface with an external device; and

    ,communicate a distance to an external device interfacing with the guide as the external device slides across the guide, the distance representing the movement of the external device relative to the shipping label, wherein the distance is communicated via alternating levels of contrasting surface appearing in series on the shipping label.

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