Patent ID: 7302399

Claim:
A travel pricing system, comprising: a data store; and a server coupled to the data store, the server: receiving from a service provider a first reservation record relating to a first type of record, the first reservation record comprising travel attributes and a first version number, the travel attributes arranged in a first record format; associating the first reservation record with a first time stamp; adding the first reservation record and time stamp to the data store using the first reservation record format; receiving from the service provider a second reservation record relating to the first type of record, the second reservation record comprising at least a portion of the travel attributes associated with the first reservation record and a second version number different from the first version number, the travel attributes arranged in a second record format different from the first record format; associating the second reservation record with a second time stamp; and adding the second reservation record and time stamp to the data store using the second reservation record format.