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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190457 | System and method for real-time revenue management A system and method for real-time revenue management is provided. Data is received from a scheduling system pertaining to a network comprising a plurality of legs. A sub-network within the network may be identified, and optimization of the sub-network is triggered. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190456 | Agreement method and system to consent to a prorated value of coupon of an interline E-ticket An enhanced agreement method and system to consent to a prorated value of a coupon of an E-ticket corresponding to a multi-segment transport involving at least two carriers for the transportation. The invention is based on a new system architecture, which com... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180657 | System and method for event slot negotiation A method and computer program product for receiving a slot request, from a second respondent having a second seniority level, for an original event slot that was previously reserved by a first respondent having a first seniority level. The second seniority level is ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166019 | Providing suggested actions in response to textual communications A system, method, and computer-readable media are described for suggesting an action based on multiple descriptors within a textual communication (e.g. email, text message). In one embodiment, event descriptors within an email are identified and displayed to the ema... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165920 | System for concurrent optimization of business economics and customer value A computer-implemented system and method to provide options on products to enhance customers' experience. A computer-implemented system is operated that delivers to a customer an option to utilize up to n of m selected products, where m and n are whole numbers and n... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160907 | System and method for allocating replacement vehicle rental costs using a virtual bank of repair facility credits Systems and methods for managing a virtual bank of repair facility credits are disclosed. Various operations for adding and subtracting credits from a repair facility virtual bank account are disclosed. Adjustments to credit totals can be based on repair facility pe... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160906 | System and method for improved rental vehicle reservation management A method and system are disclosed for managing a rental vehicle reservation based at least in part on automated processing of vehicle repair data corresponding to a disabled vehicle that is related to the rental vehicle reservation. For example, a preferred method a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145511 | System and method for locating aircraft passengers The present invention is directed to system and method for locating aircraft passengers. A data feed arrangement receives aircraft data points from at least one first data source and passenger information from a second data source. A data processing arrangement stor... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145535 | Computer implemented methods for providing options on products A computer-implemented system and method to provide options on products to enhance customers' experience. A computer-implemented system is operated that delivers to a customer an option to utilize up to n of m selected products, where n is less than or equal to m. I... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145536 | System for concurrent optimization of business economics and customer value A computer-implemented system and method for an airline to enhance customers' experience. A computer-implemented service is operated that delivers to a customer an option to upgrade on up to n of m selected products, where n is less than m. Information is recorded i... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140399 | System for concurrent optimization of business economics and customer value A computer-implemented system and method to provide options on products to enhance customers' experience. A computer-implemented service is operated that delivers to a customer an option to utilize up to n of m selected products, where n is less than or equal to m. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140366 | Method, system and program product for filling job orders A method, system and program product are disclosed for filling job orders, the method comprising: creating electronically a respective commitment reservation for each of a plurality of workers, with each respective commitment reservation comprising a commitment for ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135627 | Online marketplace for moving and relocation services Methods and systems for operating an online marketplace for the sale of goods and services associated with self-help moving and relocating are described. A customer enters an online marketplace where vendors offer services and goods relating to moving and relocating... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135601 | One-way like display of roundtrip fares A method of evaluating outbound and inbound fare amounts out of a plurality of roundtrip fare recommendations is disclosed. Intended to be displayed in a one-way like display, roundtrip fares are first obtained from a fare-driven availability engine receiving inputs... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131574 | Air travel system and method for planning roundtrip flights using one way combinable fares A method and system for making roundtrip air flight reservations includes an end-user receiving a response having departure dates with a lowest cost outbound fare for each date and return dates with a lowest cost inbound fare for each date, outbound flight and inbou... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131573 | Method to facilitate the transport of shipments via hub based facilities A method to facilitate the transport of shipments via hub based facilities according to a scheduled and uniquely identifiable transport accommodation by (a) acknowledging a customer request to transport at least one shipment between two uniquely identifiable and geo... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131572 | Electronic ticketing system and method The present disclosure provides a method of electronically exchanging tickets for an event in a secondary market from ticket sellers to ticket buyers located at remote terminals. The method comprises associating the tickets with the authentication data of the ticket... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126749 | System and method for processing a request for price information A computer travel reservation system includes at least one data processor connected with at least one memory that stores software executable by the at least one data processor. Also included is a fare family database connected with the at least one data processor th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126748 | Sports and concert event ticket pricing and visualization system A system and method is presented for determining at what price and when to release so-called ‘flex’ price tickets during an on-sale using hazard functional analyses of sales velocity and sales/inquiry ratios. Exponential, power, and Weibull-gamma models are also... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121872 | System and method for allocating seats for a ticketed event A system and method relates to allocating seats to a ticketed event. The method can include receiving a request for a number of seats at a ticketed event, selecting a first seat wherein the first seat is determined to be a best unassigned seat at the ticketed event,... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117133 | System and method for providing regional community-based membership service Disclosed herein is a system and method for providing a regional community-based membership service. The method includes registering a customer visiting a certain region as a membership service customer through classification of the customer according to a degree of... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117051 | Method for determining the number of available transport seats in a computerized reservation system A process for determining the number of available transport seats in a computerized reservation system, which includes elements for storing data on services that provide transportation between two locations and their current reservation status, broken down by class ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112295 | Personalized hospitality management system The invention is a method and system for customizing a plurality of hospitality site amenities based on a stored user profile. Certain check-in procedures are reduced or eliminated. Hospitality sites are able to provide a guest with an abundance of personalized serv... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108231 | Method and apparatus for improved customer direct on-line reservation of rental vehicles Disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website for rental vehicle reservations wherein the functionality of managing customer profiles/accounts is expanded upon to provide customers with greater control over the profile data stored in their asso... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099308 | Method and system for vehicle service appointments based on diagnostic trouble codes Methods and systems are provided for the analysis of one or more diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs), and for the scheduling of vehicle service appointments based at least in part on the DTC analysis. The method involves analyzing the received DTCs to determine an under... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095400 | Online waiting room system, method and computer program product An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth a system, method and computer program product which may include providing an online waiting room and gatekeeper for controlling access to users in a plurality of tiered classification standby lines, seeking... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095536 | Profitability based ranking of search results for lodging reservations A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is sea... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095401 | Bounce back method, system and apparatus A customer whose conditional purchase offer (CPO) has been accepted may receive a bounce back offer from a vendor (supplier-partner) of other services or products. The bounce back process determines whether a supplier-partner can participate in a bounce back transac... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090603 | System and method for selecting event tickets A system is provided that enables customers to search for event tickets for purchase. A computer interacts with the user to allow the user to specify criteria for event tickets the user wishes to purchase. The system presents relevant event ticket results, and provi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090604 | System and method for processing trip requests A system and method for planning trips and for processing trip requests that utilizes a centralized network for facilitating travel reservations and/or services. The system includes multi-purpose point of service terminals that provide a plurality of modules for var... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090602 | Method and apparatus for leisure and entertainment merchandising Leisure & entertainment attraction information is available from commercial attraction-provider servers. Users subscribe to a computerized service to facilitate making arrangements for visiting such attractions. Subscribers fill in wish-lists to specify their level ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086476 | Method for directed advertising and information distribution using a wireless communications network A method of and system for directing targeted advertising or transmitting information to end users, using wireless or mobile media, including cellular media, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and system interconnects (a) advertisers or sponsors, (b) wirele... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082164 | Reservation acceptance system and computer program product A reservation acceptance system is provided that accepts requests of reservations from customers so that the resources can be used efficiently. The reservation acceptance system includes a reservation request reception portion for accepting a request for providing a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082165 | System and method for theme park line queue management The present disclosure describes a method for managing theme park ride lines by providing an identifying device to a guest, the device configured to uniquely identify the guest, using the identifying device to ascertain an amount of time a guest spends at a predeter... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078483 | Systems and methods for queuing access to network resources One embodiment of the present invention provides apparatus and methods for queuing access by large numbers of Internet or other network-based users to networked systems and resources with limited capacity. In one example embodiment, a queuing system provides user ac... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073719 | System and method for core identity with personas across multiple domains with permissions on profile data based on rights of domain A method for core identity with personas across multiple domains with permissions on profile data based on rights of domain, is described. In one embodiment, the method is to be implemented on a system. In one embodiment the method comprises receiving travel selecti... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069069 | Method for loading flight schedule modifications A method for loading flight schedule modifications in an air travel computerized reservation system, wherein: the flight schedule database is updated; the reservations concerned by the flight schedule modifications are reassigned to update the reservation inventory ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065171 | Event planning system An event planning process is provided for execution by a server system in a computer network including a plurality of user terminals communicatively coupled with the server system via the network. The process includes the steps of: providing an event planning graphi... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060388 | Resource distribution Provided are techniques for allowing consumers to reserve a resource, in which potential consumers have a choice among a number of different reservation contracts for reserving a resource to be provided at a future time. Each reservation contract allows a correspond... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050948 | Method and apparatus for an itinerary planner A method and apparatus for providing an itinerary planner is described. The itinerary planner generates itineraries for visiting locations which are personalized to the user's preferences. Unknown conditions are handled by contingency plans that the itinerary planne... | 11/01/2011 |
