Patent ID: 6209026
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method of providing personalized traveler data to a user comprising the steps of;maintaining a real-time database containing travel information, on a Web server;automatically updating said information in said database in real time over the Internet;entering requests for personal traveler information into a local processing system, said requests comprising requests to be performed on the Web server reached over the Internet and requests to be performed on the local processing system;contacting the Web server over the Internet with an Internet connection hardware device and establishing a communication link utilizing an Internet communication program;transmitting to said Web server the requests to be performed on the Web server of said requests for personal traveler information;causing the Web server to contact the local processing system at a user specified update frequency and to transmit to the local processing system information processed to the requests to be performed on the Web server from said real-time database; andprocessing said information received from the Web server on the local processing system and processing on the local processing system said requests to be performed on the local processing system, and presenting the processed information from the local processing system and the Web server to the user.