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US 8,150,780 B2Granted
Method for calculating car hire
AssigneeThe Greenbrier Management Services, LLC
InventorsGary Edward Brandt, Gary Alan Snyder, Robert Bradley Ashton
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Abstract
An automated system having a memory storing a plurality of potential reclaims in a queue, and a processor that automatically selects which of the plurality of potential reclaims to apply to a movement cycle of a unit of railroad transport equipment, by processing mutually exclusive combinations of potential reclaims, and so as to maximize the total value of the applied reclaim(s).
Claims8
An automated system comprising:
- (a) a memory storing a plurality of potential reclaims in a reclaim queue, each associated with at least one parameter, where said plurality of potential reclaims includes at least one combination of said plurality of potential reclaims mutually exclusive with another combination of said plurality of potential reclaims;
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- (b) a processor that selectively, automatically applies a selected one of said combinations of potential reclaims to at least one movement cycle of a unit of railroad transport equipment, so as to maximize the total value of the selectively applied combination, by a comparison of said at least one parameter to numerical codes for said movement cycle, each numerical code respectively representing statistical information about said movement cycle, wherein the term “mutually exclusive” means that only one of two combinations of said plurality of reclaims can be applied to a movement cycle.
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