METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMITTING ALERTS ON HOTEL DEALS
First Claim
1. A method for providing alerts related to hotel deals based on a specific criteria, the method comprising:
- receiving a first request from a user to provide, on a periodic basis, alerts related to saving-deals available on one or more hotels satisfying the specific criteria; and
during each periodic instance of the periodic basis;
querying one or more hotel-deal sources to identify and collect information related to the saving-deals available on one or more hotels satisfying the specific criteria;
generating a first list of hotel deals pertaining to the specific criteria based on the query of the one or more hotel-deal sources; and
transmitting the first list of hotel deals to the user as a first personalized alert using a specific transmission mechanism.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for transmitting hotel deal alerts. In one embodiment, a deal alert service receives a request to periodically receive hotel related deals satisfying a specific criteria, such as being from one or more geographic locations. Based on a frequency of the periodic basis, the deal alert service generates a list of hotel deals and sends it to the user during each frequency cycle. The deal alert service transmits the list of hotel deals using a specific transmission mechanism indicated by the user. Additionally, each list item of the list of hotel-deals includes a hyperlink to a primary source offering the hotel and the saving-deal. Upon selecting a list item of the list of hotel-deals, the user is transported to an entity associated with the primary source, through which the user is able to complete a transaction to book a hotel room and receive the posted saving-deal.
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38 Claims
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1. A method for providing alerts related to hotel deals based on a specific criteria, the method comprising:
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receiving a first request from a user to provide, on a periodic basis, alerts related to saving-deals available on one or more hotels satisfying the specific criteria; and during each periodic instance of the periodic basis; querying one or more hotel-deal sources to identify and collect information related to the saving-deals available on one or more hotels satisfying the specific criteria; generating a first list of hotel deals pertaining to the specific criteria based on the query of the one or more hotel-deal sources; and transmitting the first list of hotel deals to the user as a first personalized alert using a specific transmission mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method for providing alerts related to hotel deals in a given geographic location, the method comprising:
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receiving a first request from a user to provide, on a periodic basis, alerts related to saving-deals available on one or more hotels located at a first geographic location; and during each periodic instance of the periodic basis; querying one or more hotel-deal sources to identify and collect information related to the saving-deals available on one or more hotels located at the first geographic location; generating a first list of hotel deals pertaining to the first geographic location based on the query of the one or more hotel-deal sources; and transmitting the first list of hotel deals to the user as a first personalized alert using a specific transmission mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for providing alerts related to hotel deals to a user, the method comprising:
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providing a preferences menu to enable a user to select one or more geographic locations and a frequency at which the user would prefer to receive alerts related to saving-deals pertaining to the selected one or more geographic locations; subsequent to the user providing an input using the preferences menu, generating, on a periodic basis as indicated by the selected frequency, a list of hotel deals pertaining to each of the selected one or more geographic locations, wherein each list item of the generated list of hotel deals includes a hyperlink to a web location of a corresponding primary source; and transmitting, according to the periodic basis, the list of hotel deals to the user utilizing a specific transmission mechanism, wherein, upon the user selecting a first hyperlink from a first list item from the list of hotel deals, the user is transferred to a first web location of a first primary source corresponding to the first list item, enabling the user to consummate a transaction to book a reservation and receive the saving-deal for a first hotel associated with the first list item. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A hotel-deal alerting system for providing alerts related to hotel deals to a user, the hotel-deal alerting system comprising:
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a receiving module configured to receive a first request from a user to provide, on a periodic basis, alerts related to saving-deals available on one or more hotels located at a first geographic location; a querying module configured to query, at each given periodic instance of the periodic basis, one or more hotel-deal sources to identify and collect information related to the saving-deals available on one or more hotels located at the first geographic location; a deal-generation module configured to generate, at each given periodic instance, a first list of hotel deals pertaining to the first geographic location based on the query of the one or more hotel-deal sources; and a transmitting module configured to transmit, at each given periodic instance, the first list of hotel deals to the user as a first personalized alert using a specific transmission mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A hotel-deal alerting system for providing alerts related to hotel deals to a user, the hotel-deal alerting system comprising:
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a processor; a memory configured to store a set of instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the hotel-deal alerting system to perform a method, the method including; providing a preferences menu to enable a user to select one or more geographic locations and a frequency at which the user would prefer to receive alerts related to saving-deals pertaining to the selected one or more geographic locations; subsequent to the user providing an input using the preferences menu, generating, on a periodic basis as indicated by the selected frequency, a list of hotel deals pertaining to each of the selected one or more geographic locations, wherein each list item of the generated list of hotel deals includes a hyperlink to a web location of a corresponding primary source; and transmitting, according to the periodic basis, the list of hotel deals to the user utilizing a specific transmission mechanism, wherein, upon the user selecting a first hyperlink from a first list item from the list of hotel deals, the user is transferred to a first web location of a first primary source corresponding to the first list item, enabling the user to consummate a transaction to book a reservation and receive the saving-deal for a first hotel associated with the first list item.
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38. A hotel-deal alerting system for providing alerts related to hotel deals to a user, the hotel-deal alerting system comprising:
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receiving means for receiving a first request from a user to provide, on a periodic basis, alerts related to saving-deals available on one or more hotels located at a first geographic location; querying means for querying, at each given periodic instance of the periodic basis, one or more hotel-deal sources to identify and collect information related to the saving-deals available on one or more hotels located at the first geographic location; deal-generation means for generating, at each given periodic instance, a first list of hotel deals pertaining to the first geographic location based on the query of the one or more hotel-deal sources; and transmitting means for transmitting, at each given periodic instance, the first list of hotel deals to the user as a first personalized alert using a specific transmission mechanism.
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