Patent ID: 9640078
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G08G

Claim:
1. A method for generating a plurality of slot exchange request, the method comprising: acquiring, by one or more processors, a flight schedule for a plurality of flights operated by a first aircraft operator and a second aircraft operator at an airport; acquiring, by the one or more processors, slot information for the flight schedule at the airport, the slot information including authority-issued assigned slots currently assigned among the flight schedule; calculating, by the one or more processors, first cost values associated with flights of the first aircraft operator by identifying differences between a plurality of flight times for the flights of the first aircraft operator and a plurality of slot times for the authority-issued assigned slots currently assigned to the flights of the first aircraft operator; identifying, by the one or more processors as a first alternate authority-issued slot, a first one of the authority-issued assigned slots that is currently assigned to a second flight of the flights of the flight schedule and that would reduce at least one of the first cost values associated with the flights of the first aircraft operator if assigned to a first flight of the flights of the first aircraft operator; and automatically issuing, by the one or more processors, the slot exchange request through a slot exchange program, the slot exchange request requesting an assignment of the first alternate authority-issued slot to the first flight of the flights of the first aircraft operator and an assignment of the authority-issued assigned slot currently assigned to the first flight to the second flight.