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 32):
A method for a rail transportation company for conducting an online transaction to fulfill a rail-shipment including providing cost information in connection with the rail-shipment, and fulfilling the rail-shipment, the method comprising:\n a. directing a customer system to implement a Graphical User Interface (GUI) configured to provide a commodity input object configured to accept a user input identifying a commodity to be shipped; b. the GUI being configured to provide a dynamically adaptable railcar type object identifying a collection of individually selectable freight railcar type options that the user can chose from for performing the rail-shipment of the commodity specified by a user at the commodity input object, the collection of individually selectable freight railcar type options being dynamically adaptable to the commodity to be shipped; c. in response to user input at the commodity input object identifying a particular commodity to be shipped, causing the GUI to make available for selection at the railcar type input object an adapted collection of freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types suitable to transport the particular commodity and omitting freight railcar type options corresponding to freight railcar types that cannot transport the particular commodity; d. computing a baseline haul price by using as a factor the user input at the GUI identifying the commodity to be shipped and the railcar type selected among the adapted collection of freight railcar type options and displaying the baseline haul price via the GUI; e. executing a program element to:\n i. display at the GUI information including a list of actual railcars, each railcar in said list of actual railcars being of a particular railcar type; \n ii. accept user inputs at the GUI conveying customer-selected shipping options, the customer-selected shipping options:\n 1. identifying a railcar from the list of actual railcars to be used for a shipment of the commodity, the identified railcar being of a type corresponding to the railcar type selected among the adapted collection of freight railcar type options; \n 2. identifying a chargeable service to be performed on the identified railcar to be used for the shipment of the commodity; \n \n iii. compute a customized shipment price by using as a factor one or more inputs identifying the customer-selected shipping options including the chargeable service to be performed on the railcar to be used for the shipment of the commodity; \n f. transporting the commodity by using the railcar identified by the user inputs conveying the customer selected shipping options

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): 0.2183036645267384
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7198842961602309
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2684617276900877
- Mean Citation Score: 602.8961559999998
- Max Citation Score: 660.7052
- Similarity Product: 605.8099961634636

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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