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Automated transaction processing system and approach

  • US 20050033671A1
  • Filed: 09/10/2004
  • Published: 02/10/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1996
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A transaction-processing system for facilitating transactions involving merchant offerings among parties including shippers and carriers, aspects of each transaction being characterized by transaction-based documents that are respectively provided by different parties to the transaction, the system comprising:

  • a transaction databank having a plurality of anchor locations, each anchor location for storing a plurality of transaction-profile attributes that correspond to a transaction; and

    a computer arrangement adapted to;

    identify attributes for a common transaction, the identified attributes being carried by the respective transaction-based documents as respectively provided from the different parties to the common transaction, use the identified attributes to construct a plurality of transaction-profile attributes in a particular one of the anchor locations, and in response to another transaction-based document for the common transaction carrying the identified attributes, use the constructed transaction-profile attributes in the particular anchor location to advance progress toward completion of the transaction.

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