Patent ID: 9141922
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07G,H05K

Abstract:
1. A method for a rail transportation company to obtain particulars from a customer about a shipment of goods and to perform the shipment of goods, said method comprising: a. performing a freight railcar type and a freight railcar ownership selection operation, the freight railcar type and the freight railcar ownership selection operation including an exchange of data between a server arrangement and a remote customer computer system over a data network, the exchange of data involving an equipment database storing information about freight railcars, the information distinguishing between a set of freight railcars owned by the customer and freight railcars owned by one or more entities other than the customer, the freight railcar type and the freight railcar ownership selection operation allowing the customer at the customer computer system to direct the rail transportation company via a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to use for the shipment a freight railcar of a type selected by the customer and owned by an entity selected by the customer, the freight railcar type and ownership selection operation including configuring the GUI on the customer computer system by dynamically modifying an input object of the GUI providing equipment options the customer can select, the configuring of the GUI including: b. performing the shipment by using a freight railcar of the type selected by the customer among the freight railcar type options and owned by the entity selected by the customer among the one or more freight railcar ownership options.