APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING AN AGGREGATED AND ENHANCED ITINERARY

• US 20090012824A1
• Filed: 07/06/2007
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tripit Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Tripit Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: BROCKWAY, Gregg, DENMARK, Andrew, HINTZ, Scott
• Application Number:
  US11/774,489
• Publication Number:
  US 20090012824A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/14 Travel agencies

Abstract

A computer readable storage medium supplies an aggregated and enhanced itinerary. The computer readable storage medium includes instructions to select an itinerary template based upon disparate itinerary booking events created for a user. The computer readable storage medium further includes instructions to evaluate the itinerary messages and identify logical relationships between travel events. The computer readable storage medium further includes instructions to produce enhanced travel information based on logical relationships identified within the itinerary messages. The computer readable storage medium further includes instructions to populate an itinerary with information from the received itinerary messages and enhanced travel information. Finally, the computer readable storage further includes instructions to deliver the itinerary to a user.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions to:

select an itinerary template based upon itinerary messages received from disparate itinerary booking events created for a single user, wherein each itinerary message characterizes a travel event;

evaluate the content of the itinerary messages to identify logical relationships between travel events based on the itinerary template;

produce enhanced travel information based on the logical relationships;

populate an itinerary form with travel events and enhanced travel information to form a comprehensive itinerary; and

deliver the comprehensive itinerary to the user.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to import the comprehensive itinerary in an electronic calendar of the user.

3. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the itinerary messages are email messages.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the itinerary messages are text messages.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the travel events are selected from flight information, restaurant, hotel information, and car rental information.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to select include executable instructions to search a template database.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to select include executable instructions to search a template database in accordance with a scoring system.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to select include executable instructions to search a template database in accordance with historical metrics.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 8 wherein the executable instructions to select include executable instructions to

return multiple itinerary templates identified by said historical metrics search;

populate the multiple itinerary templates;

score the populated itinerary templates; and

select template with the highest score.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to produce enhanced travel information include executable instructions to generate latitude, longitude, and time coordinates associated with travel events.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to produce enhanced travel information include executable instructions to generate location and time dependent maps.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to produce enhanced travel information include executable instructions to generate location and time dependent weather information.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein the executable instructions to produce enhanced travel information include executable instructions to generate information on local points of interest associated with the latitude, longitude, and time coordinates.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein the executable instructions to produce enhanced travel information include executable instructions to generate information missing from the itinerary messages.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to generate alerts.