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Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Jarrett, Scott L (Department: 3624)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
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08000988
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for selecting a shipping method dependent upon a dynamic model of shipping activity. In one embodiment, a method may include detecting a given shipment event for which one of a plurality of shipping methods is to be selected, determining a current output state of a discrete event model representative of shipping method selections for one or more previous shipment events, and in response to detecting the given shipping event, producing a selection of a particular one of the plurality of shipping methods that mathematically optimizes an objective function, wherein the objective function is dependent on a cost of shipping associated with the given shipment event and on a weighted deviation between the current output state of the discrete event model and a target output state of the discrete event model.
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