Patent ID: 8073719
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, in an electronic service portal computing device, inputs to book a single multi-leg travel itinerary for a user, including: automatically determining an optimum price alternative for each leg of the single multi-leg travel itinerary for the user and prompting the user for acceptance of the optimum price alternative; if the optimum price alternative is unacceptable to the user, automatically determining another optimum price alternative excluding the optimum price alternative and presenting the another optimum price alternative to the user until an acceptance by the user is received; automatically determining, by the electronic service portal computing device, whether to replace the first profile for the first leg of the itinerary with a selection of a separate profile from the group of profiles, the determination made based on a predetermined criterion; and billing, by the electronic service portal computing device, the first leg of the single multi-leg travel itinerary according to first information about a payment mechanism contained in a profile assigned for the first leg and the second leg of the single multi-leg travel itinerary according to second information about a payment mechanism contained in a profile assigned for the second leg.