Patent ID: 7765119
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: performing a post-travel analysis for each of a plurality of travelers after each traveler returns from a trip; storing results from the post-travel analysis in a data repository or database; surveying prices paid for travel purchases or reservations to identify price increases for travel purchases or reservations, wherein the price increases include an increase in a price of a travel purchase during an identified period of time, and wherein the travel purchases or reservations surveyed are purchases or reservations repeated more often than a threshold frequency; identifying, by a computer system, a correlation between identified price increases for travel purchases or reservations and identified events; predicting, by the computer system, of future price increases in select travel bookings based on the identified correlation between the identified price increases for travel purchases or reservations and the identified events; purchasing or reserving, using the an electronic services computer system, a set of travel bookings for a first event of the identified events based on the following: the predicting of the future price increases, the post-travel analysis, purchases or reservations already executed for an event, and a relationship of current purchases or reservations to total purchase or reservation expectations for the event based on stored historical aggregate data from prior travelers; subsequent to purchasing or reserving the set of travel bookings, receiving a request from a customer for information regarding available travel resources for the first event; and selling one or more of the set of travel bookings to the customer.