Patent ID: 8812333

Claim:
A travel search tool comprising: at least one hardware-based computing resource; a flight search engine configured to output, from a source of flight scheduling information, a plurality of flight itineraries for traveling from an origin to a destination, each flight itinerary comprising a split ticket with at least one pair of travel tickets having a common connection; a ticket splitter executed by the at least one hardware-based computing resource and configured to process the flight itineraries, the ticket splitter further configured to calculate, for each flight itinerary, a probability value corresponding to a probability that the flight itinerary has a total cost less than a reference cost of a single non-split travel ticket for reaching the destination from the origin, and to select each flight itinerary for which the probability value is greater than a predetermined reference value as an element of a set of recommended split tickets; and a low fare engine configured to determine an actual cost for each split ticket of the set of recommended split tickets and to transmit the set of recommended split tickets and the actual costs to a travel service provider.