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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Glenn Boucher, Shelton, CT (US);
Terri A Carroll, Milford, CT (US);
Jacques E Hasbani, Shelton, CT (US);
Kenneth Karbowski, Farmington, CT (US);
Edward M Rauh, West Haven, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A management librarian for shipping carriers is configured to access a registry containing carrier identifiers corresponding to the carriers and module identifier corresponding to carrier rate modules. The carrier rate modules contain item rating instructions arranged to rate the item for a respective carrier from among the carriers. The carrier management librarian is also configured to load into the executable space of a client application a selected carrier rate module corresponding to the selected carrier based on module identifiers accessed in the registry. An entry point for the item rating instructions is identified, based on an associated module identifier corresponding to the selected carrier.