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Systems and methods for consolidated global shipping

  • US 7,761,348 B2
  • Filed: 12/30/2004
  • Issued: 07/20/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An integrated global shipment system comprising:

  • one or more computers having one or more processors and one or more memory devices, said one or more memory devices storing a shipment consolidation application program from which said one or more processors reads and executes instructions,wherein the shipment consolidating application program includes instructions for;

    (1) receiving a request for consolidating a plurality of child shipments into a consolidated freight shipment, each child shipment of said plurality of child shipments comprising a plurality of packages, each child shipment of said plurality of child shipments having an identical destination county(2) receiving shipping data for each of said child shipments;

    (3) generating a consolidated freight shipment reference number;

    (4) processing each child shipment of said plurality of child shipments through the steps of;

    (a) determining from said shipping data whether said child shipment is a LTL (Less-than-Truckload) child shipment;

    (b) responsive to the determination that said child shipment is a LTL child shipment,(i) identifying from said shipping data a LTL shipment reference number that identifies said child shipment; and

    (ii) associating said LTL shipment reference number with said consolidated freight shipment reference number; and

    (c) responsive to the determination that said child shipment is not a LTL child shipment,(i) identifying from said shipping data one or more package reference numbers that respectively identify each package associated with said child shipment; and

    (ii) associating each of said one or more package reference numbers with said consolidated freight shipment reference number; and

    (d) storing the associations in step (b)(ii) or (c)(ii) in a data file; and

    (5) generating a consolidated shipment output based in part upon said data file.

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