Patent ID: 7908158
Filing Date: 2011-03-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing customized attributes relating to a passenger's experience during travel that can be used to select accommodations when making travel reservations, the method comprising: defining, by one or more computers, software travel objects, wherein the software travel objects are configurable to represent a variety of types of accommodations used in transportation of passengers; associating one or more of the software travel objects with configurable properties, wherein the configurable properties specify attributes of the accommodations, wherein one or more of the configurable properties comprises a dynamic configurable property whose attributes are travel segment-dependent, wherein associating the software travel objects with configurable properties further comprises: receiving, through a user interface, information specifying an attribute for a particular travel segment, from among the travel segment-dependent attributes associated with the dynamic configurable property, to customize the dynamic configurable property for the particular travel segment, during run-time of a software application that manages travel reservations for the accommodations; outputting the customized configurable properties for use by a user in a selection of one or more of the accommodations during a travel reservation; determining that the particular travel segment has been completed; and based on determining that the particular travel segment has been completed, dynamically changing the attribute for the dynamic configurable property, from the attribute specified for the particular travel segment, to a different travel segment-dependent attribute associated with the dynamic configurable property.