Patent ID: 7574372
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for selecting a final travel package comprising at least two destinations, comprising: displaying on a customer computer a plurality of components, said plurality of components comprising air travel, hotel accommodations, and car rental, wherein each of said plurality of components having at least one attribute; selecting on a display via user input by a customer at least one component of said plurality of components; manipulating by the customer information for at least one attribute for each selected component; transmitting by the customer computer to a server said manipulated attribute information received from said customer for each selected component; based on the transmitted manipulated attribute information, calculating by the server a plurality of available travel packages, each of said available plurality of travel packages comprising at least two available components, each of the at least two available components corresponding to a value of each of the selected components, wherein each of the at least two available components represents inventory manipulated by a seller in real-time; receiving and displaying simultaneously by said customer computer from said server the calculated plurality of travel packages; selecting on the display via the user input by the customer at least one of the available components from each of at least two different displayed available travel packages; creating a final travel package by assembling the selected available components from each of the at least two different displayed available of travel packages; requesting by the customer a reservation of the created final travel package; transmitting by the customer computer to said server said created final travel package and the reservation request; generating by the server a confirmation that the final travel package is reserved for the customer in response to the transmitted reservation request; and transmitting by the server to the customer computer the generated confirmation, wherein the created final travel package is a customized travel package.