Method, computer program, and system for pushing flight...

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2000-10-12

2009-10-13

Mooneyham, Janice A. (Department: 3689)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

C705S005000

Reexamination Certificate

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07603281

ABSTRACT:
A method, computer program, and system for automatically pushing flight status information to passengers and/or their agents whenever an airline flight is delayed, cancelled, or otherwise subject to a status change. The invention is implemented with a computer program that instructs a host computer operated by a global airline distribution provider. The computer program includes: a code segment for receiving and storing in a database scheduled times of departure or arrival for substantially all U.S. airline flights departing or arriving within a certain time; a code segment for receiving and storing in the database any updated times of departure or arrival for the flights; a code segment for comparing, for each of the flights, the scheduled time of departure or arrival to the updated time of departure or arrival; a code segment for flagging records in the database corresponding to flights in which the updated times of departure or arrival vary from the scheduled times of departure or arrival by a predetermined amount of time; and a code segment for periodically querying all flagged records and pushing notification information to at least one passenger or an agent of the passenger on each flight corresponding to a record that has been flagged.

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