Patent ID: 7885838

Claim:
A method of offering at least one package over a decentralized computer network to a consumer using a web browsing appliance, wherein each package includes at least one travel component, and wherein the method comprises: (a) storing descriptions of available travel components in a database; (b) storing a plurality of travel package templates in a database; (c) receiving a request for a package from a consumer; thereafter (d) dynamically generating, with a computer system, at least one travel package based on the consumer request, at least one of the plurality of travel package templates that is associated with an affinity space description, and at least one available travel component description that includes an affinity space coordinate, wherein the generating includes comparing the affinity space coordinate with the affinity space description; (e) offering the at least one generated travel package to the consumer by transmitting a description of the generated travel package over the decentralized computer network to the consumer's web browsing appliance; and (f) performing, with the computer system, a purchasing transaction to purchase at least one of the generated travel packages.