Patent ID: 7136821

Claim:
A computer-based e-commerce method dynamically formulating a collection of vendor offered travel products, wherein said method comprises a plurality of steps, one or more of said steps performed locally or remotely, said method comprising: retrieving two or more offerings of travel products from two or more vendors, said offerings including at least two product types selected from airline seating, hotel rooms, car rentals, and auxiliary travel support items with any of associated: price, time restrictions, use restrictions, class, availability, rules, and description(s); retaining said two or more offerings of travel products in computer storage; intelligently compiling travel packages comprising selected ones of said two or more offerings of travel products, each package including offerings of at least two product types, said compiling based on a congruency matching of defined restrictions and other criteria comprising any of geographic distributions, type of product, time considerations, cost, intelligent agents, and distribution channel limitations, wherein the defined restrictions for at least one product in a package are dependent on another product accepted in or excluded from the package; receiving one or more search request(s) for possible packages; presenting possible packages meeting a requesters criteria; determining a total cost by any of: summation of individual costs of products included in said compiled package, commissions, discounts, and special promotional items, and processing payment of a one or more selected travel packages.