Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Reservation – check-in – or booking display for reserved space
Reissue Patent
2000-11-03
2010-12-14
Pannala, Sathyanarayan (Department: 2164)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reservation, check-in, or booking display for reserved space
C707S758000, C710S200000
Reissue Patent
active
RE042001
ABSTRACT:
A computer system and a methodinsert-start id="INS-S-00001" date="20101214" ?is disclosedinsert-end id="INS-S-00001" ?for determining a travel schemedelete-start id="DEL-S-00001" date="20101214" ?minimizingdelete-end id="DEL-S-00001" ?insert-start id="INS-S-00002" date="20101214" ?which minimizesinsert-end id="INS-S-00002" ?travel costs for an organization, where the organization expects to purchase travel trips for a plurality of travelers for a plurality of travel links.delete-start id="DEL-S-00002" date="20101214" ?Each travel link comprises a travel origin and a travel destination, and is served by at least one of the carriers. The system comprises a data input device for receiving travel information relating to the carriers and the links, a data storage device for storing the travel information received by the data input device, a processor, and a data output device.delete-end id="DEL-S-00002" ?From the travel information, the system constructs an objective function representing a travel cost to the organization to purchase travel trips for the plurality of travelers for the plurality of predetermined links, and a set of constraints comprising restrictions relating to the objective function. The constraints are applied to the objective function to determine a solution of the objective function that satisfies the constraints and that minimizes the travel costs of the organization, and a data output device then generates a report representative of the solution.delete-start id="DEL-S-00003" date="20101214" ?The travel information comprises travel cost information for each link for each carrier serving the link, demand and supply information pertaining to a projected demand for each link and a projected supply for each carrier, and carrier goal information pertaining to any predetermined goal the organization may have with respect to any of the carriers.delete-end id="DEL-S-00003" ?
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