Travel planning system that re-prices travel options to produce answers involving multiple sales channels/PNRs/tickets per answer
First Claim
1. A method for producing a travel solution comprised of multiple travel units, the method comprising:
- sending a travel planning query to a travel planning system, the travel query including a specification of whether or not to expand a search space to include multiple passenger name records, or tickets or sales channels; and
processing the travel query to produce solutions with a specification of possible partitions of the solutions;
selecting a subset of the solutions produced; and
re-pricing the subset of solutions, as multiple tickets, by partitioning the solutions by a partition and re-pricing the partitioned solutions.
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Abstract
Techniques for producing a travel solution comprised of multiple travel units are disclosed. The techniques include sending a travel planning query having a partition specification to a travel planning system. The travel planning system processes the travel query to produce solutions based on partitions. Possible partitions can include passenger name records (PNRs), tickets or sales channels for the returned solutions. Processing can involve relaxing constraints, rules or regulations on solutions and re-pricing solutions, as multiple tickets, by partitioning the solutions by a partition. Tickets can be produced for different portions of the multiple travel units from the travel solution using different selling methods or points of sale channels.
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26 Claims
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1. A method for producing a travel solution comprised of multiple travel units, the method comprising:
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sending a travel planning query to a travel planning system, the travel query including a specification of whether or not to expand a search space to include multiple passenger name records, or tickets or sales channels; and processing the travel query to produce solutions with a specification of possible partitions of the solutions; selecting a subset of the solutions produced; and re-pricing the subset of solutions, as multiple tickets, by partitioning the solutions by a partition and re-pricing the partitioned solutions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer program product, residing on a computer readable medium for producing a travel solution comprised of multiple travel units, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a computer to:
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send a travel planning query to a travel planning system, the travel query including a specification of whether or not to expand a search space to include multiple passenger name records, or tickets or sales channels; and process the travel query to produce solutions with a specification of possible partitions of the solutions; select a subset of the solutions produced; and re-price the subset of solutions, as multiple tickets, by partitioning the solutions by a partition and re-pricing the partitioned solutions. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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