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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8027854 | Method, system, and computer program product for interfacing with information sources A method, system and computer program product for interfacing between information requesters and information sources. In an embodiment, information is obtained from one or more information sources in response to client requests. In an embodiment, information receive... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8005696 | Incremental searching in multi-passenger multi-route travel planning A multiple routes for multiple passengers are produced by ordering passenger groups and for each passenger group, constructing an individual query and sending the individual query to a travel planning system. Solutions based on the individual query are received from... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005695 | Bias of queries for multi-passenger multi-route travel planning Determining multiple routes for multiple passenger groups, includes sending to a scheduler, multiple individual queries with a bias to produce individual solutions that meet joint travel requirements, merging results from the multiple individual queries to produce j... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7966205 | Fare rules summarizer for travel planning A user interface for a fare summary tool is described. The user interface is for display on a monitor and includes a fare evaluation result table that displays fare rule summaries for fares in slices of an itinerary. A method for producing a rule summary is also des... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7921022 | Multi-passenger multi-route travel planning Multiple passenger multiple route travel queries are solved using travel planning systems that receive multiple, individual queries to produce individual solutions that meet joint travel requirements. The multiple, individual sub-queries are merged to produce joint ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7881952 | Competitive availability tools A competitive, availability prediction system for predicting relative, competitive availability of seating on an airline flight is described. The system includes an availability predictor that predicts seating availability on a competitive flight, an availability sy... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7840587 | Query caching for travel planning systems A query cache for travel planning includes a cache database that stores query results and a cache test mechanism that receives a travel planning query and uses the query to find a result in the cache database and if a result is found returns the result, the result i... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840426 | Flexible-date travel queries Techniques for processing flexible-date queries are described. Techniques include a interface to enter a flexible date query including a description of a traveler's desired stay at a destination. A user receives a set of solutions that satisfy the flexible date quer... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7711587 | Providing travel information using cached query answers Systems and techniques for presenting travel information to a user are described. A code that includes predetermined travel parameters specified by the user is included in a web page. Access to the web page by a user is detected. A travel query is populated with the... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7668740 | Method, system, and computer program product for interfacing with information sources A method, system and computer program product for interfacing between information requesters and information sources. In an embodiment, information is obtained from one or more information sources in response to client requests. In an embodiment, information receive... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7562027 | Availability processing in a travel planning system A travel planning system that implements seat availability determinations is described. The planning system includes a scheduling process for determining a set of instances of transportation that satisfy a user query and a faring process that determines fares valid ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7409643 | Graphical user interface for travel planning system A graphical user interface for a travel planning system is described. The graphical user interface is implemented as a web page and includes a tabular region of the graphical user interface that displays summarized travel options and comprises a plurality of cells t... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7346526 | System and method for entering flexible travel queries with layover description Techniques for processing flexible-date queries are described. Techniques include a interface to enter a flexible date query including a description of a traveler's desired stay at a destination. A user receives a set of solutions that satisfy the flexible date quer... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340403 | Method, system, and computer-readable medium for generating a diverse set of travel options A method for generating a diverse list of N travel options Rts from a larger list of travel options Ts, is described. The method includes generating a prioritized ordered list of requirements Rs and sorting the list of travel options Ts by an ordering function F to ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340402 | Generating a diverse set of travel options An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of pricing solutions in accordance with at least one destination and at least one origin. The search process... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7263664 | Graphical user interface for travel planning system A user interface for presenting travel itineraries to a user includes an itinerary region for displaying travel itineraries and a filter region. Each travel itinerary has a corresponding value for a first travel criterion and the travel itineraries are grouped into ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7216085 | Competitive availability tools A competitive, availability prediction system for predicting relative, competitive availability of seating on an airline flight is described. The system includes an availability predictor that predicts seating availability on a competitive flight, an availability sy... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7085726 | Robustness and notifications in travel planning system A method includes determining a travel itinerary that includes a first segment that is scheduled to arrive at a location at an arrival time and a second segment that is scheduled to depart from the location at a departure time. The method also includes deriving a pr... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6993569 | Transmitting information over a network A method includes transmitting information by transmitting an executable to a remote location over a network, generating data that is associated with the executable, and transmitting the generated data to the remote location over the network. At least part of the da... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6801226 | Graphical user interface for travel planning system A graphical user interface for a travel planning system is described. The graphical user interface is implemented as a web page and includes a tabular region of the graphical user interface that displays summarized travel options and comprises a plurality of cells t... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6609098 | Pricing graph representation for sets of pricing solutions for travel planning system An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of pricing solutions in accordance with at least one destination and at least one origin. The sea... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6418413 | Method and apparatus for providing availability of airline seats A computer program product, method and system for producing seat availability information for a mode of travel such as airline travel produce a prediction of availability of a seat in accordance with an availability query. The prediction is used in place ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6381578 | Factored representation of a set of priceable units An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of pricing solutions in accordance with at least one destination and at least one origin. The sea... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6377932 | Rules validation for travel planning system An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of pricing solutions in accordance with at least one destination and at least one origin. The sea... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6295521 | Travel planning system An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of pricing solutions in accordance with at least one destination and at least one origin. The sea... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6275808 | Pricing graph representation for sets of pricing solutions for travel planning system An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of pricing solutions in accordance with at least one destination and at least one origin. The sea... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6263323 | Technique for producing constructed fares A technique for producing constructed fares that include an arbitrary added to a published fare is described. The techniques determine interior cities that appear with gateway cities in arbitraries for the airline and searches for gateway cities correspon... | 07/17/2001 |
