Airline management system generating routings in real-time
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- maintaining a central database of an airline management system to store flight information for one or more airlines;
receiving a request that contains flight information for one of the airlines;
executing a routing module on a host computer system of the airline management system, in response the request, to generate one or more routings in real-time in accordance with the request.
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a computer environment in which a management system for a transportation carrier, e.g., an airline carrier, generates routings in real-time. A routing module executing on a host computer system dynamically generates routings in real-time using a routings map as a mechanism for accessing up to date flight information stored in a central database. To reduce storage requirements in a multi-hosting environment, a single copy of flight information is maintained in the central database for each host airline and airline having a partnership agreement with a hosted airline. Consequently, as flight schedules and relationships between airlines change, possibly substantially continuously in a passenger environment, the management system may reduce the number of erroneous routings provided to an airline for use in booking passengers. Further, by reducing the number of erroneous routings, the number of requests submitted to the system may be reduced thereby increasing system performance.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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maintaining a central database of an airline management system to store flight information for one or more airlines; receiving a request that contains flight information for one of the airlines; executing a routing module on a host computer system of the airline management system, in response the request, to generate one or more routings in real-time in accordance with the request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An airline management system comprising:
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one or more host computer systems that maintain a central database that stores flight information for one or more airlines; a routing module executing on at least one of the host computer systems; a flights module executing on each of the host computer that receives one or more requests, wherein the flights module invokes the routing module in response to receiving the requests to generate one or more routings in real-time in accordance with the requests. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An airline management system comprising:
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means for maintaining a central database of the airline management system to store flight information for one or more airlines; means for receiving a request that contains flight information for one of the airlines; and means for executing a routing module on a host computer system of the airline management system, in response the request, to generate one or more routings in real-time in accordance with the request. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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