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Event interface for a carrier manager system

US6873978B1 · kind B1 · utility

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17Claims
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Filing dateOct 1, 1997
Grant dateMar 29, 2005
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Expiry dateOct 1, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07B17/00024
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A carrier management module in a carrier management system with a first application and a second application is configured to broker carrier rating requests from the second application to the first application through an event interface. The carrier, management module also loads carrier rate modules, programmed to rate items for carriers, so that both applications can call rating routines in the carrier rate modules to rate an item for the associated carrier. Specifically, the carrier management module accesses a system registry of supported carriers to determine whether to dispatch an event to the first application to rate an item for a carrier not supported by the carrier rate module.

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