Multi-passenger multi-route travel planning
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1. A system for processing a multiple passenger, multiple route query, the system comprising:
- a travel planning system that searches for airline tickets in response to queries and that finds answers that satisfy the queries, with the queries involving different passengers taking different, but related routes.
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Abstract
Techniques for processing a multiple passenger, multiple route query are disclosed. The techniques include a travel planning system that searches for airline tickets in response to queries and a server that sends multiple, individual queries to the travel planning system and combines solutions received from execution of the multiple individual queries by the travel planning system, producing answers for the multiple passenger, multiple route query.
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1. A system for processing a multiple passenger, multiple route query, the system comprising:
a travel planning system that searches for airline tickets in response to queries and that finds answers that satisfy the queries, with the queries involving different passengers taking different, but related routes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for processing a multiple passenger, multiple route query, the system comprising:
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a travel planning system that searches for airline tickets in response to queries; and a server that sends multiple, individual queries to the travel planning system and combines solutions received from execution of the multiple individual queries by the travel planning system, producing answers for the multiple passenger, multiple route query. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method for processing a multiple passenger, multiple route query, the method comprising:
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searching for airline tickets in response to queries; and determining answers that satisfy the queries, with the queries involving different passengers taking different, but related routes. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method comprising:
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searching for airline tickets in a travel planning system in response to queries; and sending by a server multiple, individual queries to the travel planning system; and combines by the server solutions received from execution of the multiple individual queries by the travel planning system to provide answers for the multiple passenger, multiple route query. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36)
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