Method and system for unused ticket management

• US 7,711,586 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2005
• Issued: 05/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deem, Incorporated (Jack Taylor Family Voting Trust U A D 4 14 99)
• Original Assignee: Rearden, LLC
• Inventors: Aggarwal, Gautam, Alag, Satnam, Messa, Suzette, GaBany, Jay
• Primary Examiner(s): Rudy; Andrew Joseph
• Application Number:
  US11/240,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20060190315A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,677 Days
• Field of Search: 705 5- 10, 705/400, 700/14, 702/172, 702/178, 702/187, 706/25, 706/47
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination

Abstract

A method and system for unused ticket management, that identifying travel data related to one of future or past travel data for one or more travelers; identifying one or more unused travel purchase; generating a value for the unused travel purchase, the value corresponding to the one or more travelers, the respective values based at least in part on the travel data of the one or more travelers; and presenting to at least one of the one or more travelers, one or more options of unused travel purchases and the respective generated values.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying, by a computer server, travel data related to at least one of future and past travel data pre-associated with at least one traveler;

identifying at least one unused travel purchase;

generating a value for the unused travel purchase, the value corresponding to the at least one traveler, the respective values based at least on one of the travel data of the at least one traveler, a residual value of the unused travel purchase, and an expiration date of the unused travel purchase; and

presenting to at least one traveler, an option to purchase at least one unused travel purchase at the respective generated value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating includes predicting future travel for at least one traveler based at least in part on past travel data related to the at least one traveler.

3. The method of claim 2, farther comprising, in response to at least one traveler initiating a travel request.

4. The method of claim 1, performed in response to one or more of a request for a travel booking by at least one traveler, a cancellation of a planned travel, and a passage of a predetermined length of time.

5. The method of claim 1, in response to at least one traveler requesting a travel booking, performing the identifying data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the travel data includes one or more of a quantity of prior travels by the traveler, a frequency of travels within a predetermined length of time, prior destinations of the travels, cost of the travels, carriers used in the prior travels, and a quantity or frequency of cancellations or modifications of prior travels.

7. The method of claim 1, performed prior to a request for travel plans by at least one traveler.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the travel data into separate groups of travelers based on attribute data corresponding to respective travelers.

9. The method of clam 8, wherein the attribute data includes one or more of a traveler'"'"'s position in an organization and geographical location.

10. A machine readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed by a computer server, perform a method comprising of:

identifying travel data related to at least one of future and past travel data for pre-associated with at least one traveler;

identifying at least one or more unused travel purchase;

generating a value for the unused travel purchase, the value corresponding to the at least one traveler, the respective values based at least on one of the travel data of the at least one traveler, a residual value of the unused travel purchase, and an expiration date of the unused travel purchase; and

presenting to at least one of the one or more travelers traveler, an option to purchase at least one unused travel purchase at the respective generated value.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the generating the value for the unused travel purchase is based at least in part on a residual value of the unused travel purchase and an expiration date of the unused travel purchase.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the generating includes predicting future travel for at least one traveler based at least in part on past travel data related to the at least one traveler.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising, in response to at least one of traveler initiating a travel request.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, performed in response to at least one of a request for a travel booking by at least one traveler, a cancellation of a planned travel, and a passage of a predetermined length of time.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, in response to at least one traveler requesting a travel booking, performing the identifying data.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the travel data includes one or more of a quantity of prior travels by the traveler, a frequency of travels within a predetermined length of time, prior destinations of the travels, cost of the travels, carriers used in the prior travels, and a quantity or frequency of cancellations or modifications of prior travels.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, performed prior to a request for travel plans by at least one traveler.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising storing the travel data into separate groups of travelers based on attribute data corresponding to respective travelers.

19. A system comprising:

means for identifying travel data related to at least one of future and past travel data pre-associated with at least one traveler;

means for identifying at least one unused travel purchase;

means for generating a value for the unused travel purchase, the value corresponding to the at least one traveler, the respective values based at least on one of the travel data of the at least one traveler, a residual value of the unused travel purchase, and an expiration date of the unused travel purchase; and

means for presenting to at least one traveler, an option to purchase at least one unused travel purchase at the respective generated value.