Fare and yield driven travel services optimizer for a budget based request system
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1. A budget-based request system, comprising:
- a fare-and-yield-driven travel services optimizer (10) in electronic communications with a user (15) over a communications network (20) and accepting, from the user via the communications network, a network-transmitted trip search request (S100), the trip search request comprising user-input travel segments selection criteria; and
an inventory of travel segments (12, 40, 50, 60) operatively connected to the optimizer (10), each travel segment having a yield criteria indicating a degree of difficulty in selling the travel segment, the optimizer configured to respond to the trip search request by determining a travel segments solution set based on the yield criteria of each travel segment, the solution set comprised of selected travel segments satisfying the travel segments selection criteria.
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A budget based request system includes a travel segments inventory operatively connected to a fare and yield driven travel services optimizer, each travel segment having a yield criteria indicating a degree of difficulty in selling the travel segment. The optimizer responds to a trip search request by determining a travel segments solution set based on the yield criteria of each travel segment, where the solution set is made of travel segments satisfying the travel segments selection criteria.
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1. A budget-based request system, comprising:
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a fare-and-yield-driven travel services optimizer (10) in electronic communications with a user (15) over a communications network (20) and accepting, from the user via the communications network, a network-transmitted trip search request (S100), the trip search request comprising user-input travel segments selection criteria; and
an inventory of travel segments (12, 40, 50, 60) operatively connected to the optimizer (10), each travel segment having a yield criteria indicating a degree of difficulty in selling the travel segment, the optimizer configured to respond to the trip search request by determining a travel segments solution set based on the yield criteria of each travel segment, the solution set comprised of selected travel segments satisfying the travel segments selection criteria. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A budget-based request system, comprising:
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a fare-and-yield-driven travel services optimizer (10);
a user terminal (15) for user initiation of a trip search request comprising user-input travel segments selection criteria;
a computer network (20) connecting the user terminal to the optimizer for bi-directional communication between the optimizer and the user terminal, the trip search request being sent from the user terminal to the optimizer via the computer network;
a travel segments inventory (12, 40, 50, 60) operatively connected to the optimizer (10), each travel segment inventory comprising plural travel segments having a yield criteria indicating a degree of difficulty in selling each travel segment, the optimizer configured to respond to the trip search request by determining a travel segments solution set based on the yield criteria of each travel segment, the solution set comprised of selected travel segments satisfying the travel segments selection criteria received by the optimizer from the trip search request. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A fare-and-yield-driven travel request system, comprising:
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a fare-and-yield-driven-travel services optimizer (10); and
a travel segments inventory (12, 40, 50, 60) operatively connected to the optimizer, each travel segment having a yield criteria indicating a degree of sales difficulty in selling the travel segment, the optimizer configured to respond to travel segments selection criteria of a received trip search request by determining a travel segments solution, from a set of travel segments satisfying the travel segments selection criteria, maximizing selection of travel segments having a high degree of sales difficulty based on the yield criteria of each travel segment in the set, the optimizer generating a electronic travel segments offer file comprising the travel segments solution responsive to the received trip search request.
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