Patent ID: 7539650
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07G,H05K

Abstract:
1. A method for computing the price for shipping goods, comprising: a) causing a computer to deliver first information to a user, the first information prompting the user to enter at the computer information about a rail transportation service for shipment of goods by one or more railcars; b) receiving information about a basic pool of railcars and filtering the basic pool of railcars based on one or more filtering criteria to produce a filtered pool of railcars, the one or more filtering criteria being derived at least in part based on the information about the rail transportation service entered by the user; c) causing the computer to deliver second information to the user, the second information prompting the user to select at the computer one or more railcars among the filtered pool of railcars for the shipment of goods; d) computing a price for the shipment of the goods at least in part on the basis of: