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

Claim 12:
13. A travel planning and booking apparatus for facilitating booking of travel via a user interface of a user device, comprising:
a server configured to communicate with said user device and cause the user device to prompt the user to enter a travel request and transmit the travel request to the server and to display results generated by the server in a search interface that comprises a first interface and at least a second interface on a screen of the user device,
the server configured to receive the travel request from the user device, and said travel request including at least a basic travel information comprising different phases of travel including at least a travel origin and a travel destination,
the travel planning and booking apparatus configured to operate as:
a traffic interceptor that conducts an initial query of internet connected sites based on the basic travel information, and
a booking system provider, interfaced with the traffic interceptor and programmed to conduct a refined query of the internet connected sites, the refined query being separate from the initial query and based on the basic travel information and at least one item of supplementary information,
wherein the travel planning and booking apparatus is configured to receive solution data from the internet connected sites, resolve the solution data received from the internet connected sites into a consistent format, and output the solution data to the user device, in the consistent format, as one or more solutions to the travel request,
wherein the travel planning and booking apparatus converts the solution data received in the one or more different formats from the internet connected sites into the consistent format for output to the user device as the one or more solutions to the travel request,
wherein the booking system provider, interfaced with the traffic interceptor, conducts a supplementary query of the travel providers, the supplementary query being separate from the initial query and based on the basic travel information and the 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 at least one of 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 the consistent format,
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,
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,
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, make the bookings and create and store at least one of a travel itinerary and a reminder system in relation to the travel.