PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16270321
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["705", "330000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for conducting an online transaction to fulfill a rail-shipment service inquiry or a rail-shipment service ordering is provided. A customer system is directed to implement a Graphical User Interface (GUI) providing an input object configured to accept a customer input identifying an origin and a destination for a shipment of goods. The GUI is configured for presenting a plurality of customer-selectable shipment options, the plurality of shipment options, including a first shipment option where the shipment uses a railcar owned by the customer and a second shipment option where the shipment uses a railcar owned by an entity other than the customer. The GUI is configured to receive a customer selection of a shipment option among the plurality of shipment options and, in response to a customer selection of a shipment option among the plurality of shipment options, the GUI is adapted to deliver additional information to the customer or request from the customer additional input in order to complete the online transaction.

Claim (Index 6):
A method for conducting an online transaction to fulfill a rail-shipment service inquiry including providing a cost estimate in relation to the transport of goods by rail, comprising:\n (a) adapting a Graphical User Interface (GUI) by dynamically modifying a selection range of an input object providing equipment options a user can select for performing a shipment of goods, the adapting including:\n i. sending commands over a data communication network to a remote customer client system, the commands directing the remote customer client system to implement a GUI providing a goods input object configured to accept user inputs identifying goods to be shipped; \n ii. the GUI being configured to provide a dynamically adaptable railcar type input object identifying a collection of individually selectable freight railcar type options that the user can chose from for performing the shipment of the goods specified by the user at the goods input object, the collection of individually selectable freight railcar types options being dynamically adaptable to the goods to be shipped; \n iii. in response to a user input at the goods input object identifying particular goods to be shipped, executing a program element configured for processing the particular goods to be shipped selected at the goods input object to derive an adapted collection of freight railcar type options, the adapted collection of freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types suitable to transport the particular goods and omitting freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types that cannot transport the particular goods; \n iv. the GUI being configured to make available for selection at the railcar type input object the derived adapted collection of freight railcar type options; \n (b) executing a program element configured to compute the cost estimate by using as factors at least the user input at the GUI identifying the goods to be shipped and the railcar type selected among the adapted collection of freight railcar type options and displaying the computed cost estimate at the GUI.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 85.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45833
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15090325', '14825659', '14193966', '12944320', '10060402']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.215465946649049
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7289392520324615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2668132771873903
- Mean Citation Score: 602.8961559999998
- Max Citation Score: 660.7052
- Similarity Product: 639.2036320382832

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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