| US 7,539,650 B2 | ||
| System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service providing equipment selection capability | ||
| Leonard John Podgurny, Montreal (Canada); and Anita Ernesaks, Westmount (Canada) | ||
| Assigned to Canadian National Railway Company, Montreal, Quebec (Canada) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 01, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/60,402. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0163378 A1, Aug. 28, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—400 [705/29; 705/26] | 47 Claims |
| 1. A method for computing the price for shipping goods, comprising:
a) causing a computer to deliver first information to a user, the first information prompting the user to enter at the computer
information about a rail transportation service for shipment of goods by one or more railcars;
b) receiving information about a basic pool of railcars and filtering the basic pool of railcars based on one or more filtering
criteria to produce a filtered pool of railcars, the one or more filtering criteria being derived at least in part based on
the information about the rail transportation service entered by the user;
c) causing the computer to deliver second information to the user, the second information prompting the user to select at
the computer one or more railcars among the filtered pool of railcars for the shipment of goods;
d) computing a price for the shipment of the goods at least in part on the basis of:
i) the rail transportation service;
ii) one or more characteristics of the railcars in the filtered pool of railcars selected by the user.
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