Patent ID: 11887043
Assignee: ACUITIVE SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a server system of an intermediary entity, the method comprising:
providing, by the server system of the intermediary entity, an online portal including a first webpage through which a requesting entity can request to receive a shipping quote from a shipping entity, the requesting entity being different from the intermediary entity and the shipping entity, and the intermediary entity being different from the shipping entity;
receiving, by the server system of the intermediary entity, a user input from a first computing device of the requesting entity through the first webpage of the online portal, the user input being for initiating a process for receiving the shipping quote in a preferred format selected by the requesting entity;
in response to receiving the user input, transmitting, by the server system of the intermediary entity, an electronic request for shipping cost data to a second computing device of the shipping entity;
providing, by the server system of the intermediary entity, a second webpage of the online portal to the second computing device of the shipping entity for use in inputting the shipping cost data, the second webpage including an interactive form dynamically generated by the server system of the intermediary entity based on the preferred format selected by the requesting entity for the shipping quote;
receiving, by the server system of the intermediary entity, the shipping cost data from the second computing device of the shipping entity through the interactive form in the online portal, the shipping cost data being input into the interactive form by the shipping entity in response to receiving the electronic request, and the shipping cost data being in another format that is different than the preferred format of the requesting entity;
automatically converting, by the server system of the intermediary entity, the shipping cost data from the other format into the shipping quote in the preferred format of the requesting entity; and
transmitting, by the server system of the intermediary entity, the shipping quote in the preferred format through the online portal to the first computing device of the requesting entity for display to the requesting entity.