Competitive availability tools
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1. A system for providing availability answers for seating on an airline flight, the system comprises:
- an availability predictor that produces a predicted answer for seating availability on a competitive flight to the airline flight;
an availability system that produces an actual availability answer for the airline flight; and
a computing system that includes decision logic to produce a decision with respect to the actual availability answer from the availability system based on comparing the predicted answer from the availability predictor and the actual availability answer from the availability system.
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Abstract
A competitive, availability prediction system for predicting relative, competitive availability of seating on an airline flight is described. The system includes an availability predictor that predicts seating availability on a competitive flight, an availability system that produces an actual availability response for a flight and decision logic that compares the predicted answer from the availability predictor and the potential answer from the availability system to establish a decision with respect to actual availability.
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1. A system for providing availability answers for seating on an airline flight, the system comprises:
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an availability predictor that produces a predicted answer for seating availability on a competitive flight to the airline flight; an availability system that produces an actual availability answer for the airline flight; and a computing system that includes decision logic to produce a decision with respect to the actual availability answer from the availability system based on comparing the predicted answer from the availability predictor and the actual availability answer from the availability system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method executed on a computer system the method, comprising:
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receiving by the computer system a request for availability of seating on an airline flight; executing in the computer system an algorithm to produce a predicted answer that predicts seating availability on a flight that is a competitive flight to airline flight; determining in the computer system an actual availability answer for the airline flight; comparing the predicted answer from the algorithm and the actual availability answer from the availability system to establish a decision with respect to the actual availability answer; and modifying the actual availability answer if indicted by the decision. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium for determining relative availability of seating on an airline flight, comprises instructions for causing a computing device to:
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produce an actual availability answer for a flight; determine a predicted answer for seating availability on a competitor'"'"'s flight that is a competitive flight to the airline flight; compare the predicted answer and the actual availability answer to determine if the actual seat availability answer should be modified; and modify the actual availability answer if indicated by the compare instructions. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium for determining relative availability of seating on an airline flight, the product comprising instructions for causing a competitive device to:
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determining a predicted answer for seating availability on a competitor'"'"'s flight that is a competitive flight to an airline flight; compare the predicted answer and an actual availability answer to determine if the actual seat availability answer should be modified; and modify the actual availability answer in accordance with the compare instructions. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36)
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