Patent ID: 9251478
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method of handling a shopping request at a travel reservation system, the method comprising: receiving the shopping request from an inquiring entity at a query processing server of the travel reservation system; directing the shopping request from the query processing server to a first platform of a first travel content provider; if the query processing server receives a first response to the shopping request from the first platform within a given time limit, forwarding the first response from the query processing server to the inquiring entity; if the first platform fails to respond to the query processing server within the given time limit, forwarding a second response to the shopping request from the query processing server to the inquiring entity based upon query response data stored in a cache at the query processing server; and if the query processing server receives a third response to the shopping request from the first platform after the given time limit has been exceeded, updating the query response data for the first travel content provider in the cache at the query processing server based upon the third response.