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Method and system of implementing a carrier manager librarian

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  • US 6,078,889 A
  • Filed: 09/30/1997
  • Issued: 06/20/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A carrier management system having a microprocessor, said system further comprising:

  • (a) a plurality of carrier rate modules, each of the carrier rate modules containing item rating instructions arranged to rate an item for a respective carrier from among a plurality of carriers;

    (b) a registry recording carrier identifiers corresponding respectively to the carriers in a one-to-one association with module identifiers indicating respectively how to load the carrier rate modules; and

    (c) a carrier management librarian module containing carrier management instructions arranged to;

    (i) access the registry;

    (ii) load a selected carrier rate module corresponding to the selected carrier, based on a module identifier accessed in the registry, into the executable space of a client application executing the carrier management librarian module; and

    (iii) identify an entry point for the item rating instructions in the loaded, selected carrier rate module in response to an identifier corresponding to the selected carrier specified by the client application.

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