Patent ID: 8175930

Claim:
A computer program product for providing a system for selling shipping services online, the system comprising: a data recording medium; a product selector encoded on said data recording medium for selecting, by a buyer, a product to be purchased, said product being offered for sale by a seller; a shipping service information collector encoded on said data recording medium for obtaining information about said shipping services from carriers; a shipping parameter collector encoded on said data recording medium for obtaining information to specify shipping parameters in connection with said product to be purchased, said information for specifying said parameters being provided by at least one of said buyer and said seller; a shipping option computing module encoded on said data recording medium and connected to said shipping service information collector and to said shipping parameter collector for computing available shipping services; a shipping service selector encoded on said data recording medium and connected to said shipping option computing module for selecting, by said buyer, a shipping service in connection with a given carrier among said available shipping services; a shipping service notifying module encoded on said data recording medium and connected to said shipping service selector for generating a shipping service request and transmitting said request to said given carrier; and a transaction concluding module encoded on said data recording medium for receiving from said carrier a response to said request and transmitting said response to said buyer.