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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185419 | Incremental searching with partial solutions for multi-passenger multi-route travel planning Multiple passenger, multiple route processing includes sending independent queries to a travel planning system for each of a plurality of passenger groups, receiving individual solutions and producing a set of tables, each representing a different partial joint solu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185418 | Multi-passenger multi-route travel planning Multiple passenger multiple route techniques are disclosed including sending independent queries to a travel planning system for each of a plurality of passenger groups and receiving lists of individual solutions appropriate for the passenger groups in response to t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8155986 | Collapsible itineraries Method and system for grouping and displaying travel itineraries are disclosed. The method for grouping travel itineraries includes receiving a list of travel itineraries, grouping the list of travel itineraries to one or more clusters according to a set of grouping... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145577 | Next generation visibility package tracking The present invention involves systems and methods for tracking one or more shipped items that are shipped via a carrier. A set of expected occurrences are established for each item shipped. The items are then shipped and the shipment of the one or more shipped item... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140361 | System and method for integrated travel and expense management The present invention provides a system and method for integrating travel and expense management. The present invention enables an entity to integrate not only data that matches exactly, but also determine the likelihood that data that does not match exactly neverth... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8095402 | System and method for transferring a service policy between domains A method for transferring a service policy between domains, is described. In one embodiment, the method is to be implemented on a system. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090707 | Chance meeting addition to trip planner or meeting planner One embodiment of the present invention includes a system and method for managing a travel plan. In response to a travel plan being identified for a traveler, a search is performed for one or more persons based on a predetermined relation to the traveler. In respons... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082186 | Method and a system for generating a custom itinerary according to user specifications An automated method for operating a bimodal itinerary creation and management system. The method includes specifying by a user of his travel preferences and telling the system to plan and calculate an itinerary, calculating by the system of an itinerary meeting said... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8060389 | System and method for anonymous location based services Provided is a fully automated web service with location based services generally involved in transmission of situational location dependent information to automatically located mobile receiving data processing systems. The web service communicates with a receiving d... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050950 | System and method for boarding passengers based on bids Systems and methods for boarding passengers on flights or other transportation according to bids received from the passengers are provided. Passengers seeking to fly standby on an undersold flight can submit a bid representing the amount the passengers are willing t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 8000987 | Quality model certification assessment cost estimation and optimization A method includes determining a standard set of activities to perform an assessment and certification process, and identifying cost elements and cost drivers for each activity of the standard set of activities. Additionally, the method includes determining requireme... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7962354 | Booking engine for booking airline tickets on multiple host environments A system and method of booking an itinerary on at least one of a multiplicity of host environments include a plurality of host adaptor modules. Each host adaptor module is configured to interact with one of the plurality of host ticketing environments. A booking eng... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953618 | Transport system A transport system having commuters with identification and/or vehicles with identification (“identifiers”) authorizing them to take part in the transport system, at least one vehicle park in which authorized c... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7937280 | Planning and scheduling of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services A system (10) for planning and scheduling service events for one or more assets includes a demand optimizer engine (12) that receives information regarding future service requirements for an asset and operating characteristics of the asset. The demand ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7877280 | Goal oriented travel planning system A travel system for processing travel requests based on a user's travel destination goal such as a meeting place and time. The travel system selects a destination terminal, if one is not provided, and estimates a travel time between the destination terminal and the ... | 01/25/2011 |
| RE42001 | Computer system and method for determining a travel scheme minimizing travel costs for an organization A computer system and a method is disclosed for determining a travel scheme minimizing which minimizes travel costs for an organization, where the organization expects to purchase travel trips for a plurality of travelers for a plurality of travel links. Each trave... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840427 | Shared transport system and service network The network system matches the supply and demand of transportation services by incorporating unused transportation capacity (i.e., empty seats) with a real-time allocation and matching service that enables individuals and goods to conveniently hire that capacity wit... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7720702 | System and method for integrated travel and expense management The present invention provides a system and method for integrating travel and expense management. The present invention enables an entity to integrate not only data that matches exactly, but also determine the likelihood that data that does not match exactly neverth... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7574372 | Methods and apparatus for managing a tour product purchase Components are displayed on a customer computer, each component having an attribute. A component is selected on a display by a customer. The information for the attribute for each selected component is manipulated by the customer. The manipulated attribute informati... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7457761 | Delivery management system The method of managing the delivery of an order from at least one supplier to a respective delivery agent, and from the delivery agent to a respective buyer, given a requested order date and the respective buyers address, consisting of the steps including: determini... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7424449 | Computer-implemented method to provide options on products to enhance customer experience 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... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421396 | Travel information distribution system A travel information distribution system includes a distribution center and a wireless terminal of a user who can readily obtaining necessary travel information in traveling places using the wireless terminal such a portable telephone or a portable personal computer... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418409 | System for concurrent optimization of business economics and customer value satisfaction A method of dynamically formulating value options that maximize customer satisfaction and company profitability includes identifying a set of demand segments for a company, each demand segment having a satisfaction value. The method further includes identifying a se... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415419 | Method and system for presenting rates for travel services A method and system are provided for presenting rates for travel services using dynamic pricing bands. The dynamic pricing bands represent approximate rates for travel services relative to available rates during or close to the proposed dates of travel, or at or nea... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409632 | Classifying, disabling and transmitting form fields in response to data entry An attachment integrated claims (AIC) system includes an e-mail form (with specific fields that must be filled out) that adjusts itself, in both information required and formatting, to meet the demands of the receiving party. It is particularly advantageous for Elec... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7406429 | Booking method and system The invention relates to a method and system for booking reservations in a booking system and synchronizing bookings among several booking systems. The system comprises at least one booking system; at least one service provider; a mediator service; a client, and at ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401029 | Tool for analyzing corporate airline bids A airline travel supplier evaluation tool is provided which will allow companies to efficiently evaluate the value of preferred airline supplier scenarios and improve their negotiating position vis-à-vis their airline suppliers. The user of the software tool may ch... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7401334 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for managing message flow in a multithreaded, message flow environment In one form, a method for managing message flow includes processing messages concurrently by processing nodes in a computer software application. The processing nodes include at least one set of lock acquisition, system resource access and lock release nodes interco... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395220 | System, methods and computer program products for offering products based on extrapolation of inputs A computer system for extrapolating from relatively small amounts of information provided by a consumer to generate a wide range of travel options that are still associated with the information provided by the consumer. For example, the system includes processes for... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392944 | Managing content at a portable, content adjustable personal identification device In one embodiment, at least one information control device manages the content displayed on multiple separate portable, content adjustable personal identification devices. The information control device automatically selects at least one content specification for tr... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386459 | Filtered peer-to-peer business communication in a distributed computer environment A method for filtered peer-to-peer business communication in a distributed computer environment includes accessing offers associated with one or more offerors and requests associated with one or more requestors, each offer and each request including a set of filter ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382334 | Digital information system The invention relates to a digital information system for displaying information on at least one display means with the aid of at least one television set or camera. The exposures are presented at places accessible to and frequented by a general public. The informat... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7366714 | Method and system for providing electronic discovery on computer databases and archives using statement analysis to detect false statements and recover relevant data Electronic discovery on computer systems and archives is provided by using statement analysis of to identify false statements so as to retrieve relevant impeachment data and other evidence related to recorded statements. The recorded statement is analyzed for possib... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363242 | Internet based airline ticket purchasing and vacation planning system and method A system and method of processing a travel plan request from a customer includes (1) receiving customer information from a customer; (2) storing in a database the customer information; (3) sending to an agent a notification by an email, the notification including a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363241 | Ticket booking and issuing system and method for the same A ticketing method that permits a plane ticket or the like to be easily obtained via an in-house system. A ticket booking service request is sent to a net server from a PC through a LAN. Then, an airline company selection screen is sent from the net server to the PC... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350139 | System and method for utilizing a drag and drop technique to complete electronic forms A system and method for utilizing a drag and drop technique to complete electronic forms are provided. A document browser computer (30) accesses one or more electronic forms provided by a document server (32) via an active Internet browser application ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340404 | Booking method and system The invention relates to a method and system for booking reservations in a booking system and synchronizing bookings among several booking systems. The system comprises at least one booking system; at least one service provider; a mediator service; a client, and at ... | 03/04/2008 |
