Patent ID: 11972372
Assignee: SERKO LIMITED
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A travel planning and booking system that communicates with a user device to provide to a user an interface configured to receive at least a search request including basic travel information for a trip to be taken by the traveler, the basic travel information including travel phases, which include a travel origin and a travel destination and any waypoints therebetween, to book the trip for the traveler, the travel booking system comprising:
one or more servers configured to communicate with the user device and cause the user device to prompt the user to enter the search request including the basic travel information and transmit the search request including the basic travel information to the one or more servers and to display results generated by the servers in a search interface that comprises a first interface and at least a second interface on a screen of the user device,
the one or more servers further configured to receive the search request including the basic travel information from the user device, and still further configured to operate as:
a traffic interceptor that communicates with travel providers and conducts an initial query of the travel providers based on the basic travel information received from the user device, and
a booking system provider, interfaced with the traffic interceptor and configured to conduct a supplementary query of the travel providers, the supplementary query being separate from the initial query and based on the basic information and at least one item of supplementary information,
the at least one item of supplementary information received from at least one of: a traveler profile, a corporate profile, a backend connection providing ancillary information relating to at least one of the travel phases, and a route micro-mapper that conducts a localized query of travel providers relating to travel local to each phase of the travel phases of the proposed travel between the travel origin and the travel destination,

wherein the travel planning and booking system is configured to generate at least one solution for each of the travel phases, and to present to the user, via the first interface, the at least one solution for each of the travel phases in a consistent format in the interface,
wherein the first interface presents a first output from the traffic interceptor in the consistent format, and the second interface presents a second output from the booking system provider in the consistent format, the first interface and the second interface located adjacently to one another on the screen of the user device,
wherein the first interface, through the travel planning and booking system, converts the first output from the traffic interceptor pursuant to the initial query from one or more first formats of the first output to the consistent format for presentation to the user via the interface,
wherein the second interface, through the travel planning and booking system, converts the second output from the booking system provider pursuant to the supplementary query from one or more second formats of the second output to the consistent format for presentation to the user via the interface,
wherein the search interface allows the user to select between (a) the first output presented on the first interface and (b) the second output presented on the second interface, in order to allow the user to replace the first output with a selected output from said second interface, and
wherein the booking system provider is configured to, once all the phases of travel have been confirmed by the user, to make the bookings and create and store at least one of a travel itinerary and a reminder system in relation to the travel.