Patent ID: 7103558
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for determining at least one trip for a travel itinerary having segments stored in a computing system having a processor operating according to an accompanying program instruction set, said method comprising the steps of: inputting itinerary data derived from the itinerary into the processor, said itinerary data defining two or more segments, each of said segments having an origin and a destination; applying a multi-level test to each of the segments defined by the input itinerary data to identify the destination of said segment as a connection or a termination, wherein applying the multi-level test to each of the segments comprises determining that the destination of each of the segments having a next segment is both non-coterminous and non-equivalent to the origin of the next segment; and outputting the trip in response to said applying step wherein the trip is defined by a series of tested segments in which only the last segment in the series has a destination which is a determined termination.