Computer based system and method for facilitating commerce between shippers and carriers
First Claim
1. A method of facilitating commerce between shippers and carriers, said method comprising the steps of. a) capturing electronic shipment requests for available shipments, said electronic shipment requests originating from remote shippers and including shipment specific criteria and carrier access criteria;
- b) storing said electronic shipment requests in a database of a DMS;
c) presenting said electronic shipment requests to remote carriers meeting the carrier access criteria;
d) receiving carrier fulfillment offers responsive to said presented electronic shipment requests; and
e) presenting said responsive carrier fulfillment offers to the remote shippers originating said electronic shipment requests.
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Abstract
An internet based method of facilitating commerce between shippers and carriers includes the steps of capturing electronic shipment requests for available shipments, the shipment requests including shipment specific criteria and carrier access criteria, and storing the electronic shipment requests in a database. The electronic shipment requests are presented for action to the remote carriers meeting the carrier access criteria. These remote carriers may reply to the shipment requests with fulfillment offers, which are responsive to the presented shipment requests. Carrier fulfillment offers are received and presented to the remote shippers originating the electronic shipment requests. An Internet based system for implementing the method of the present invention is also disclosed.
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1. A method of facilitating commerce between shippers and carriers, said method comprising the steps of.
a) capturing electronic shipment requests for available shipments, said electronic shipment requests originating from remote shippers and including shipment specific criteria and carrier access criteria; -
b) storing said electronic shipment requests in a database of a DMS;
c) presenting said electronic shipment requests to remote carriers meeting the carrier access criteria;
d) receiving carrier fulfillment offers responsive to said presented electronic shipment requests; and
e) presenting said responsive carrier fulfillment offers to the remote shippers originating said electronic shipment requests. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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16. A system constructed and arranged to facilitate commerce between shippers and carriers, said system comprising:
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a) an interface communicating with remote shippers and carriers in a network environment to accept electronic shipment requests for available shipments and to accept carrier fulfillment offers, the electronic shipment requests identifying shipment specific criteria and carrier access criteria; and
b) a dynamic market system including a dynamic market engine, said dynamic market engine communicating with said interface to receive said electronic shipment requests and said carrier fulfillment offers and store said shipment requests and fulfillment offers in the database, said dynamic market engine cooperating with the database to present said electronic shipment requests to remote carriers meeting the carrier access criteria, receive carrier fulfillment offers responsive to said presented electronic shipment requests, and present said responsive carrier fulfillment offers to the remote shippers originating said electronic shipment requests.
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19. A system constructed and arranged to facilitate commerce between shippers and carriers, said system comprising:
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a) an interface communicating with remote systems in a network environment to accept electronic shipment requests for available shipments and to accept carrier fulfillment offers, the electronic shipment requests identifying shipment specific criteria and carrier access criteria; and
b) a dynamic market system including a dynamic market engine, a database and an open market services interface constructed and arranged to interpret the electronic shipment requests and store the interpreted electronic shipment requests in the database, the dynamic market engine cooperating with the open market services interface and the database to present said electronic shipment requests to remote carriers meeting the carrier access criteria, receive carrier fulfillment offers responsive to said presented electronic shipment requests and present said responsive carrier fulfillment offers to the remote shippers originating said electronic shipment requests.
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20. (canceled)
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