Patent ID: 9009145
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for searching for a travel product from a plurality of potentially suitable travel products, the method comprising: receiving one or more search parameters from a web-based interface; launching multiple simultaneous searches based on the search parameters and one or more attributes of the travel product to one or more sources of data to identify the potentially suitable travel products, wherein at least one particular potentially suitable travel product comprises an itinerary including bundled data elements, and each bundled data element corresponds to a respective individual leg of the itinerary; displaying the potentially suitable travel products on the web-based interface; obtaining a selection of a subset of the potentially suitable travel products for further processing; further processing the subset of potentially suitable travel products by normalizing the one or more data elements associated with the subset of potentially suitable travel products into a homogeneous display including separating each bundled data element including the corresponding respective individual leg of the itinerary of the at least one particular potentially suitable travel product; and determining at least one most suitable travel product for a customer based on preferences of the customer and the one or more attributes, wherein the at least one most suitable travel product comprises a combination of two or more separated data elements from two or more potentially suitable travel products of the subset such that the at least one most suitable travel product comprises a combination of a corresponding respective individual leg of each of the two or more separated data elements from the two or more potentially suitable travel products of the subset, wherein the combination of the two or more separated data elements of the at least one most suitable travel product includes at least one of the bundled data elements and the corresponding respective individual leg that has been separated from the itinerary of the at least one particular potentially suitable travel product.