Patent ID: 8082186

Claim:
An automated method for operating a bimodal itinerary creation and management computer system having creation and management modes, said method comprising: specifying by a user during said creation mode, of at least some of his travel preferences and signaling to the system to plan and calculate an itinerary; scoring a given point-of-interest (POI) along the route of said itinerary, wherein each heuristic will increase or decrease the score of a given POI, and wherein some of these heuristics depend on the various properties of the POI, while others depend on the current state of said itinerary; calculating by a processor of the system of said itinerary satisfying said user's travel preferences; presenting said itinerary to said user; and selecting one of: accepting this as the final itinerary by said user; and at least once, further specifying and fine tuning his preferences, and recalculating the itinerary, until a sufficiently satisfactory itinerary is created, wherein during said management mode, said method further comprises checking off by said user of entries on said itinerary he has visited, and further comprising changing of plans by said user and recalculating by the system of the remaining itinerary to agree with the changed itinerary, and wherein during said management mode, the computer system may be run on one of a Web server, desktop application and mobile device.