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| 20080270254 | Method and System of Building Actual Travel Fares - A method of building actual travel fares in a computer, from fare databases, is disclosed. A graph of nodes representing travel destinations is built which comprises edges connecting pairs of nodes. Each edge references a lowest travel fare. Also, a tree of fares is built for each graph edge. Trees comprise at least a root node holding the lowest travel fare of the corresponding graph edge. They possibly include more nodes comprising a context key and an associated travel fare. Trees are organized to have children nodes holding a travel fare equal to or larger than travel fare of a parent node. Thus, less expensive fare paths can efficiently be extracted since graph edges, included in the fare paths, reference the associated trees of fares and are gone through in ascending order of their lowest fare values. A learning entity is used to build and update the trees of fares. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090076862 | AUTOMATED SPLIT TICKETING - An enhanced travel search tool aimed at providing travel opportunities includes a ticket splitter operating from a list of flight connections provided by a front-end flight search engine. The ticket splitter comprises a unit for valuating all ticket partitions generated from the provided list of connection flights and a tree of split criteria updated in a cache for determining the partitions and attributing to each partition a probability value of obtaining a split-ticket solution. The ticket splitter also includes a unit for selecting those of the valuated partitions that have a probability value higher than a defined threshold and provides a sorted list of recommended partitions to a back-end fare search engine to price all the selected partitions including a reference single-ticket solution. Travel search tool offering of travel opportunities is enhanced by automatically including multi-ticket travel solutions. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100131553 | GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING BEST TRAVEL DEALS - A global distribution system (GDS) organized for searching travel deals from a plurality of travel vendor fare databases ( | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100299318 | ONLINE TRAVEL RESERVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD DELIVERING RESTRICTION-AWARE TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES - An online reservation system including a fare search engine is described. The system includes a database of published fares, a database of rules attached to the published fares and a fare family solver to categorize the published fares into sets of predefined generic fare families on the basis of the rules attached to the published fares. The fare family solver further includes a generic partitioning fare family database holding the attributes of each predefined generic fare family allowing to determine to which fare family the published fares belong to. The attributes of each predefined generic fare family are first set up by a fare family composer operated by an administrator of the system. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20120095981 | System and method to provide a user with a set of solutions in response to a query - An aspect of the exemplary embodiments is an on-line system that includes an interface with system users configured to receive search requests from system users. The system further includes a search engine coupled with the interface. The search engine is configured to respond to a received search request from a user to perform a search that considers priceable criteria and a non-priceable criterion, where a weight of the non-priceable criterion to be accorded during the search relative to the priceable criteria is specified by the user. The search engine is further configured to return search results to the user via the interface. As an example, the search may be a travel-related search, the priceable criteria can include at least a fare amount, and the non-priceable criterion can include a universal criterion such as an ecology-related criterion. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120330742 | System and method to combine redemption and converted commercial fares - In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments provide a computer-implemented method that includes, in response to a request to redeem customer award units, processing data representing at least one commercial fare in conjunction with data representing at least one conversion rule so as to generate at least one converted redemption fare. The method further includes operating on the at least one converted redemption fare with a faring engine to output at least one travel solution calculated in award units. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130018820 | Fare Invalidation Auditing SystemAANM LANDRA; CorinneAACI Le RouretAACO FRAAGP LANDRA; Corinne Le Rouret FRAANM DOURTHE; CedricAACI NiceAACO FRAAGP DOURTHE; Cedric Nice FRAANM CAMBERBEC; AurelieAACI GrasseAACO FRAAGP CAMBERBEC; Aurelie Grasse FR - Disclosed is a method to operate a pricing engine in response to a request to price a travel product. The method includes processing fare-related data and, in response to the pricing engine invalidating a fare in the fare-related data, automatically invoking an invalidation handler for storing information in an invalidation log associated with the invalidated fare, including a reason for the fare being invalidated. The method further includes processing the information stored in the invalidation log in conjunction with other information and storing in a data repository at least one consolidated view configured to display to a user information descriptive of at least one reason why the fare was invalidated. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130173429 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR AND/OR PURCHASING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES - A method of searching for a product or service and presenting the results in a calendar type view; wherein the search is instigated in a request which includes a plurality of parameters, such as a city pair and/or a date, and one or more upsell criteria; the method comprising the steps of: determining via a computer search, results which meet at least one parameter and one or more upsell criteria to thereby determine a flight domain; progressively determining the flight domain via a computer to produce refined results; limiting the number of results in the flight domain based on the at least one parameter, one or more upsell criteria and first one of a plurality of abstraction levels to thereby obtain the refined results, which refined results have lowest prices; and presenting the refined results in a view such as a calendar matrix view. | 07-04-2013 |
