| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7561963 |
System, method, and computer program product for comparing the cost of driving an owned or lease |
July 14, 2009 |
| A system, method, and computer program product calculate the cost for a traveler to drive the traveler's personal vehicle on a trip of a defined distance and duration, and compare the cost of driving the traveler's personal vehicle to the cost of other transportation options, such as the |
| 7376617 |
Demand aggregation and distribution system |
May 20, 2008 |
| Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention use a data processing system to aggregate information reflecting demand for an item based on input requests associated with the item, each request having been received from a remote user and including |
| 7376611 |
Demand aggregation and distribution system |
May 20, 2008 |
| Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention use a data processing system to aggregate information reflecting demand for an item based on input requests associated with the item, each request having been received from a remote user and including |
| 7350150 |
Methods and apparatus for accessing information from multiple remote sources |
March 25, 2008 |
| In accordance with the present invention a process is provided for interfacing a legacy application and internet-based application and for displaying information from each application in a frame of a multi-frame browser on a client workstation. Further, the interface system enables u |
| 7340405 |
Method and system for developing optimized schedules |
March 4, 2008 |
| In accordance with the present invention a process is provided for optimizing a schedule of legs employed in transporting objects between geographic markets. The process identifies a set of itineraries for serving a set of markets, and then generates a set of market plans for each ma |
| 7328166 |
Global reservations transaction management system and method |
February 5, 2008 |
| A reservation system and methodology ensures that all changes to a database in a federation are reliably and immediately communicated to all of the other databases in the federation. The system communicates information concerning hotel reservation transactions. The system comprises m |
| 7311252 |
Methods and apparatus for predicting airline seat availability |
December 25, 2007 |
| Systems predict the availability of travel resources and select an appropriate data source for obtaining travel resource inventory availability information by analyzing historical travel resource availability data. Such systems receive customer travel requests and determine candidate |
| 7243845 |
Systems and methods for event driven baggage management |
July 17, 2007 |
| Systems and methods for event driven baggage management are disclosed. Readers are used to detect and monitor the location of tags attached to baggage as the baggage moves from the point at which a traveler drops of the baggage at the origin of a trip to the point at which the traveler |
| 7240020 |
Apparatus and method for creating a marketing initiative |
July 3, 2007 |
| An apparatus and method for creating or presenting marketing initiatives in a sales manager system. A user inputs offer parameters for a new initiative. The offer parameters includes an initiative time period and an initiative description. After the parameters have been entered, cust |
| 7228207 |
Methods and systems for routing mobile vehicles |
June 5, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to methods and systems for routing mobile vehicles under maintenance and operational constraints. In the case of aircraft, the methods and systems may generate an aircraft routing proposal based on information describing a possible flight of an aircraft, |
| 7050987 |
System and method for coordinating travel itineraries |
May 23, 2006 |
| The methods and systems for coordinating the travel itineraries of multiple travelers, who are leaving from more than one origin location, but are arriving at the same destination location, provide automated techniques for determining which itineraries for each traveler best meets th |
| 7006903 |
Method and system for routing mobile vehicles and scheduling maintenance for those vehicles rela |
February 28, 2006 |
| Methods and systems for routing and scheduling maintenance for aircraft. An aircraft routing and maintenance scheduling system generates an aircraft routing proposal based on information describing a possible flight of an aircraft and a maintenance scheduling proposal that correspond |
| 6974079 |
Methods and apparatus for predicting airline seat availability |
December 13, 2005 |
| Systems predict the availability of travel resources and select an appropriate data source for obtaining travel resource inventory availability information by analyzing historical travel resource availability data. Such systems receive customer travel requests and determine candidate |
| 6957189 |
Apparatus and method for creating a marketing initiative |
October 18, 2005 |
| An apparatus and method for creating or presenting marketing initiatives in a sales manager system. A user inputs offer parameters for a new initiative. The offer parameters includes an initiative time period and an initiative description. After the parameters have been entered, customer |
| 6714945 |
System, method, and article of manufacture for propagating transaction processing facility based |
March 30, 2004 |
| A system, method, and article of manufacture for propagating data from a transaction processing facility (TPF) based computer to a relational database associated with a server computer and providing the propagated data to a variety of clients are presented. A TPF based computer includes |
| 6630942 |
Methods and apparatus for accessing information from multiple remote sources |
October 7, 2003 |
| In accordance with the present invention a process is provided for interfacing a legacy application and internet-based application and for displaying information from each application in a frame of a multi-frame browser on a client workstation. Further, the interface system enables u |
| 6356934 |
Intermediate server having control program for storing content accessed during browsing sessions |
March 12, 2002 |
| An intermediate server for sharing data between a sender computer and receiver computer(s)is disclosed. A sender initiates a browsing session by (1) requesting a session setup form from the intermediate server that is returned with a beginning URL or (2) being redirected to the intermedi |
| 6330617 |
System, method and computer program product for data conversion in a computer network |
December 11, 2001 |
| Conversion of a data in a variable field message to a fixed format message. The variable field message has a varying length and fields of varying types of data. The corresponding fixed format message has fields of a fixed data type and length, which facilitates parsing and processing dat |
| 6286029 |
Kiosk controller that retrieves content from servers and then pushes the retrieved content to a |
September 4, 2001 |
| An intermediate server, or kiosk controller, serves as an agent between content servers and kiosk computers. A control program loaded on the intermediate server directs the intermediate server to retrieve content data from various content servers on a network. The particular content to |
| 6253200 |
Structured query language to IMS transaction mapper |
June 26, 2001 |
| A process to access an IMS transaction based computer system from a structured query language (SQL) application program without revising or migrating the transaction based system. Binary virtual table mappings are built. An SQL statement from the SQL application program is parsed. Vi |
| 6229534 |
Methods and apparatus for accessing information from multiple remote sources |
May 8, 2001 |
| In accordance with the present invention a process is provided for interfacing a legacy application and internet-based application and for displaying information from each application in a frame of a multi-frame browser on a client workstation. Further, the interface system enables u |
| 6208975 |
Information aggregation and synthesization system |
March 27, 2001 |
| An information aggregation and synthesization system and process. The present invention provides aggregation and packaging of structured or unstructured information from disparate sources such as those available on a network such as the Internet. A network compatible/addressable interfac |
| 6199104 |
Server-based host monitor |
March 6, 2001 |
| A server-based host monitor is provided that allows a host computer to send host data to an intermediate server interfaced with a network. The intermediate server includes a conversion program that translates the host data into a format common with the network. The translated host data i |
| 6122642 |
System for propagating, retrieving and using transaction processing facility airline computerize |
September 19, 2000 |
| A system and method for propagating airline computerized reservation system TPF data to a relational database platform comprising a computerized reservation system transaction processing source computer in communication with an output data file, an input data structure, a functional serv |
| 6122620 |
System for the radio transmission of real-time airline flight information |
September 19, 2000 |
| A flight delivery system that utilizes an architectural structure and network that allows real-time digital signals to be stored, retrieved and converted to an audio signal for radio transmission to achieve nearly instantaneous transmission of real-time data. The system, utilizes a c |
| 6085164 |
Apparatus and method of allocating flight inventory resources based on the current market value |
July 4, 2000 |
| The present invention relates to an inventory control method and architecture that maximizes revenues derived from the sale of a given inventory resource to a customer. More particularly, the present invention uses a continuous nested execution environment that allows a determination |
| 6076067 |
System and method for incorporating origination and destination effects into a vehicle assignmen |
June 13, 2000 |
| A comprehensive system and methodology for incorporating origination and destination network effects into a transportation industry's vehicle assignment process. The invention utilizes a decomposition strategy to combine a simplified version of network segment-FAM with the network flow |
| 5995943 |
Information aggregation and synthesization system |
November 30, 1999 |
| An information aggregation and synthesization system and process. The present invention provides aggregation and packaging of structured or unstructured information from disparate sources such as those available on a network such as the Internet. A network compatible/addressable interfac |
