Patent ID: 8719064

Claim:
A method for facilitating cross-carrier tracking of passengers based on trip details that indicate whether and which in-vehicle service selections were requested by the passengers in relation to transit via different carriers, the method being implemented on a computer system that includes one or more physical processors executing with one or more computer program instructions which, when executed, perform the method, the method comprising: obtaining, by the computer system, a first set of information relating to a first carrier and a second set of information relating to a second carrier that is different from the first carrier, the first set of information comprising first identification information and one or more first trip details and the second set of information comprising second identification information and one or more second trip details, wherein the first identifying information indicates a first device identifier, and a first account that is associated with the particular passenger and the first carrier, and wherein the second identifying information indicates a second device identifier, and a second account that is associated with the particular passenger and the second carrier; determining, by the computer system, that the first set of information relates to a first trip of a particular passenger with the first carrier and the second set of information relates to a second trip of the particular passenger with the second carrier based on a determination that the first device identifier corresponds to the second device identifier; obtaining, by the computer system, a third set of information relating to the first carrier, the third set of information comprising third identification information and one or more third trip details, wherein the third identification information indicates a third device identifier different from the first device identifier, and a third account that is associated with the particular passenger and the first carrier; determining, by the computer system, that the third set of information relates to a third trip of the particular passenger with the first carrier based on a determination that the first account corresponds to the third account; and determining, by the computer system, preference information of the particular passenger based on the one or more first trip details, the one or more second trip details, and the one or more third trip details.