TRAVEL PLANNER PLATFORM FOR PROVIDING QUALITY TOURISM INFORMATION

• US 20170045365A1
• Filed: 04/19/2015
• Published: 02/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gershon Paz-Tal
• Original Assignee: Gershon Paz-Tal
• Inventors: PAZ-TAL, Gershon
• Granted Patent: US 10,222,220 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/14 Travel agencies
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096816 where the complete route is transmitted to the vehicle at once
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09685 where the complete route is computed only once and not updated
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096883 where input information is obtained using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096894 where input is assisted by the navigation device, i.e. the user does not type the complete name of the destination, e.g. using zip codes, telephone numbers, progressively selecting from initial letters
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for providing Quality Tourism Information (QTI) for a Free Individual Traveler (FIT) to obtain localized information specific to a particular geographic area (e.g., few meters) and compile an itinerary, in real time comprising: a) a web-enabled server (cloud) adapted to communicate with a plurality of sources and databases comprising information on a plurality of tourist attractions, lodging establishments, and services; b) a User Interface (UI) to facilitate interaction with said server and provide solutions to said traveler, said UI comprising, a menu containing introductory solution for a specific geographic area and a function for allowing to specify desired tourist attractions and resources to be submitted via said function to a Tourism Individual Planning (TIP) algorithm; and c) a TIP algorithm for retrieving information from said sources and databases and for generating at least one personal itinerary form said retrieved solutions based on “Tourism Logic”.

Claims

1. A Tourism Solution Generator (TSG) system for providing quality tourism information for a free individual traveler to obtain localized information specific to a particular geographic area and accordingly to compile an itinerary tailored for said traveler in real time, said system comprising:

a. a server adapted to communicate with a plurality of sources and databases that comprise information on a plurality of tourist attractions, lodging establishments, and services; and

b. a User Interface (UI) adapted to facilitate interaction with said server and to provide tourism solutions to said traveler, said UI comprising, a menu containing introductory solution for a specific geographic area and a function for allowing to provide one or more queries to be submitted via said function to a Tourism Individual Planning (TIP) algorithm, wherein said

TIP algorithm is applied for retrieving solutions from said sources and databases and for generating at least one personal itinerary tailored for said traveler form said retrieved solutions and based on the provided one or more queries.

2. The system according to claim 1, in which the function includes a solution form for allowing specifying a particular city, region or route.

3. The system according to claim 2, in which the specific solution allows specifying a particular type of tourist attraction, lodging or service.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the specific solution form allows specifying a particular price range.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an upcoming events module for providing a list of upcoming local events in said the geographic area by means of a call center that is configured to operate according to the TIP algorithm.

7. The system according to claim 1, in which the database is populated with categorized tourism information after being processed by a data processing module of the server.

8. The system according to claim 1, in which the server includes a data collection module for collecting tourism information from external information sources.

6. A method for providing quality tourism information for a free individual traveler to obtain localized information specific to a particular geographic area and to compile an itinerary, comprising the steps of:

a. maintaining a server adapted to communicate with plurality of sources and database comprising information on a plurality of tourist attractions all within the particular geographical area;

b. providing a User Interface (UI) to facilitate interaction with said server, wherein said UI comprises a menu containing introductory travel information as solution on the particular geographical area to allow to specify tourist attractions and resources according to one or more queries;

c. upon receiving one or more queries from the traveler, submitting data that represent said one or more queries to said server via said UI;

d. processing said one or more queries by applying a Tourism Individual Planing (TIP) algorithm and retrieving information from said sources and databases accordingly; and

e. generating at least one tailored itinerary according to said retrieved information.