System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service providing equipment selection capability
First Claim
1. A method for transporting goods by rail, comprising:
- (a) adapting a Graphical User Interface (GUI) by dynamically modifying a selection range of an input object providing equipment options a user can select for performing a shipment of goods, the adapting including;
i. sending commands over a data communication network to a remote customer client system, the commands directing the remote customer client system to implement a GUI providing a goods input object configured to accept user inputs identifying goods to be shipped;
ii. the GUI being configured to provide a dynamically adaptable railcar type input object identifying a collection of individually selectable freight railcar type options that the user can chose from for performing the shipment of the goods specified by a user at the goods input object, the collection of individually selectable freight railcar types options being dynamically adaptable to the goods to be shipped;
iii. in response to a user input at the goods input object identifying particular goods to be shipped, sending commands over the data communication network to the remote customer client system for directing the GUI to make available for selection at the railcar type input object an adapted collection of freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types suitable to transport the particular goods and omitting freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types that cannot transport the particular goods;
(b) in response to selection of a particular freight railcar type option at the railcar type input object, transporting the particular goods by rail using a freight railcar of a type corresponding to the selected freight railcar type option.
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Abstract
A method and system for computing the price for shipping goods. The method includes causing a computer to deliver first information to a user prompting the user to enter at the computer information about a rail transportation service for shipment of goods by one or more railcars. Information about a basic pool of railcars is received and filtered based on one or more filtering criteria to produce a filtered pool of railcars. The computer is then caused to deliver second information to the user prompting the user to select at the computer one or more railcars among the filtered pool of railcars for the shipment of goods. A price for the shipment of the goods is then computed at least in part on the basis of the rail transportation service and the one or more characteristics of the railcars in the filtered pool of railcars selected by the user.
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16 Claims
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1. A method for transporting goods by rail, comprising:
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(a) adapting a Graphical User Interface (GUI) by dynamically modifying a selection range of an input object providing equipment options a user can select for performing a shipment of goods, the adapting including; i. sending commands over a data communication network to a remote customer client system, the commands directing the remote customer client system to implement a GUI providing a goods input object configured to accept user inputs identifying goods to be shipped; ii. the GUI being configured to provide a dynamically adaptable railcar type input object identifying a collection of individually selectable freight railcar type options that the user can chose from for performing the shipment of the goods specified by a user at the goods input object, the collection of individually selectable freight railcar types options being dynamically adaptable to the goods to be shipped; iii. in response to a user input at the goods input object identifying particular goods to be shipped, sending commands over the data communication network to the remote customer client system for directing the GUI to make available for selection at the railcar type input object an adapted collection of freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types suitable to transport the particular goods and omitting freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types that cannot transport the particular goods; (b) in response to selection of a particular freight railcar type option at the railcar type input object, transporting the particular goods by rail using a freight railcar of a type corresponding to the selected freight railcar type option. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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