Patent ID: 8131574
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A network-based travel reservation system, comprising: an end-user device, the end-user device, in response to a round trip request, receives end-user air travel itinerary; asynchronous parallel processing devices programmed to provide: a One Way Combinable fare converter, the One Way Combinable fare converter including an interactive system wherein airfare providers create One Way Combinable fares in roundtrip flights requests ticketed in a country of trip origin, each One Way Combinable fares being combinable together with any other One Way Combinable fare, free of combinability restriction, forming a guaranteed pricing solution complying with roundtrip rules both in domestic and international contexts including complex inbound and outbound segments, the complex inbound and outbound segments being based on non-direct flights; a One Way Fare database connected to the first One Way Combinable fare converter, the One Way Fare database comprising the One Way Combinable fares, the One Way Combinable fares comprising i) segment fare data including pricing rules, said pricing rules comprising each One Way combinable fare is without fare restrictions to be combined with another One Way Combinable fare in roundtrip flights requests ticketed in a country of origin and ii) segment price amount data; a first low fare search pricing engine in bilateral communication with the One Way Fare database and configured to retrieve i) the segment fare data including the pricing rules and ii) segment price amount data; a second low fare search pricing engine in bilateral communication with the One Way Fare database and configured to retrieve i) the segment fare data including the pricing rules and ii) segment price amount data; and a One Way Combinable fare pricer comprising wherein each outbound segment determined One Way Combinable fare is combinable together only with any other inbound segment determined One Way Combinable fare, free of combinability restrictions of a combinability restriction between each combined outbound segment determined One Way Combinable fare and inbound segment determined One Way Combinable fare, forming a guaranteed pricing round trip solution complying with said roundtrip rules both in domestic and international contexts including complex inbound and outbound segments of the end-user air travel itinerary request, the One Way Combinable fares are created by a plurality of airlines or airfare providers and the One Way Combinable fares of each airline are combinable with the One Way Combinable fares of other airlines without fare restriction.