Patent ID: 11321661

Abstract:
A method and system for determining available shipment options between origin and destination address locations includes defining a plurality of service area polygons as geospatial objects in a geospatial database that correspond to geographic service areas served by a carrier, building a plurality of route definitions that define the shipping services between each origin/destination pair of service area polygons, and defining a plurality of route guide polygons as geospatial objects in the geospatial database that further limit the available shipping services at predetermined locations within the service area polygons. The method also includes receiving a shipping request query that specifies the origin and destination address locations for the proposed shipment, converting the origin and destination address locations to origin and destination geospatial locations, and geospatially determining that the origin and destination geospatial locations fall within origin and destination geospatial service area polygon objects and within one or more geospatial route guide polygon objects. The method further includes eliminating routes with unavailable shipping services between the origin and destination address locations and offering routes with available shipping services for selection by the user.