Travel planner platform for providing quality tourism information

• US 10,222,220 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2015
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gershon Paz-Tal
• Original Assignee: Gershon Paz-Tal
• Inventors: Paz-Tal, Gershon
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn, Alex C
• Application Number:
  US15/304,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20170045365A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,416 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/14 Travel agencies
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096816 where the complete route is transmitted to the vehicle at once
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09685 where the complete route is computed only once and not updated
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096883 where input information is obtained using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096894 where input is assisted by the navigation device, i.e. the user does not type the complete name of the destination, e.g. using zip codes, telephone numbers, progressively selecting from initial letters
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for providing Quality Tourism Information (QTI) for a Free Individual Traveler (FIT) to obtain localized information specific to a particular geographic area (e.g., few meters) and compile an itinerary, in real time comprising: a) a web-enabled server (cloud) adapted to communicate with a plurality of sources and databases comprising information on a plurality of tourist attractions, lodging establishments, and services; b) a User Interface (UI) to facilitate interaction with said server and provide solutions to said traveler, said UI comprising, a menu containing introductory solution for a specific geographic area and a function for allowing to specify desired tourist attractions and resources to be submitted via said function to a Tourism Individual Planning (TIP) algorithm; and c) a TIP algorithm for retrieving information from said sources and databases and for generating at least one personal itinerary form said retrieved solutions based on “Tourism Logic”.

Claims

1. A Tourism Solution Generator (TSG) system, comprising:

a. a main operation module (Pazit) for providing quality tourism information (QTI) for a free individual traveler (FIT) to obtain localized information specific to a geographic area and to provide QTI and an ongoing itinerary tailored for said FIT in a few seconds;

b. an independent web-enabled server adapted to communicate with a plurality of sources and databases that comprise information on a plurality of tourist attractions, lodging establishments, and services;

c. a call center (C6) configured to operate as a combination of call, contact, content, context, and connecting center based on a tourism individual planning (TIP) algorithm while taking into account human factors based on “

Tourism Logic”

, wherein said call center provides anomaly detection with respect to QTI; and

d. a User Interface (UI) adapted to facilitate interaction with said independent web-enabled server via said call center by using a technological platform and to provide QTI based tourism solutions to said FIT, wherein said QTI defines the total type of information needed by said FIT, said UI comprising a menu containing introductory solutions for the geographic area and a function for allowing said FIT to provide one or more queries, wherein, as a result of the interaction, said independent web-enabled server retrieves solutions and generates in a few seconds in a first response at least one personal itinerary tailored for said FIT based on said TIP algorithm while taking into account the human factors in accordance with said “

Tourism Logic”

by combining and integrating content with the human factors including habits of said FIT, thereby enabling said FIT to obtain, in real time, the travel-related planning in an ongoing and personalized manner.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the interaction with the independent web-enabled server provides QTI that comprises localized and nationalized solutions specific to the geographic area and compiles an itinerary in real time.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the specific solution comprises a type of tourist attraction, lodging or service.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the interaction allows specifying a price range.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an upcoming events module for providing a list of upcoming local events in said the geographic area via said C6 that is configured to operate according to the TIP algorithm.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein said database are populated with categorized tourism information after being processed by a data processing module of the independent web-enabled server.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said independent web-enabled server includes a data collection module for collecting QTI from external information sources.

6. A method for providing quality tourism information (QTI) for a free individual traveler (FIT), comprising the steps of:

a. providing a main operation module (Pazit) configured to obtain localized information specific to a geographic area and to provide relevant QTI and an ongoing itinerary tailored for said FIT in a few seconds;

b. maintaining an independent web-enabled server adapted to communicate with a plurality of sources and databases comprising information on a plurality of tourist attractions all within the geographic area;

c. providing a call center (C6) configured to operate as a combination of call, contact, content, context, and connecting center based on a tourism individual planning (TIP) algorithm while taking into account human factors in accordance with Tourism Logic, wherein said C6 provides anomaly detection with respect to QTI;

d. providing a User Interface (UI) to facilitate interaction with said independent web-enabled server via said C6, wherein said UI comprises a menu containing introductory solutions for on the geographic area to specify tourist attractions and resources according to one or more queries;

e. submitting data that represent said one or more queries to said independent web-enabled server via said UI upon receiving said one or more queries from said FIT;

f. processing said one or more queries by applying said TIP algorithm and by combining and integrating content with the human factors including habits of said FIT based on said “

Tourism Logic”

, and retrieving information as solutions from said sources and databases; and

g. generating an ongoing tailored itinerary according to said retrieved information in a few seconds as a first response, thereby enabling said FIT to obtain, in real time, the relevant travel-related planning in an ongoing and based on a personalized manner.