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Airline flight reservation system simulator for optimizing revenues
Assignee: Sabre Properties Inc
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Filing: 1994-09-08
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Granted: 1997-07-29
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Expires: 2014-09-08
Abstract
Abstract A computerized airline flight reservation system simulator that allows airravel carriers to simulate changes in flight schedules and predict the impact of those changes on a carrier's revenue. The simulator includes means for the input of host and other airline scheduled flight information which is used to build a global network of flight services offered on existing central reservation systems (CRS). The network is built according to CRS build and edit rules and simulates the screen display of reservation systems according to CRS display and sorting rules. The system simulates the screen presence on existing CRSs allowing the airline to predict the revenues derived from its present flight schedule and provides means to make proposed changes in its schedule and correspondingly see how such changes may impact revenues.
Inventors
- 👤 James Finlay Barlow
- 👤 Teresa Anna Maria Valdivieso
- 👤 Anadi Gopal Risal
- 👤 Vijay R. Shah
- 👤 Sandeep Gangadhar Parmekar
- 👤 Ramesh Venkata Perumal
- 👤 Sarah Frances Davies
- 👤 Jeffrey Alan Peterson
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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2026-10-26 20:38
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q10/00; G06Q10/02; G06Q10/025
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
192 words
A method of simulating the screen presence of an airline's flight services on existing central reservation systems comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining airline flight schedule information; (b) using the airline flight information to build a record of all flight services on an origin-destination basis; (c) eliminating unattractive flight service options from the record; (d) entering a customer request for a flight service; (e) identifying potential flight services within the record which satisfy the customer request; (f) simulating the display screen of the central reservation systems that appear in response to the customer request; (g) storing the resultant displays in screen simulation files; (h) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the airline's services appearing on the first line of the screen displays; (i) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the airline's services appearing on the first screen of the screen displays; (j) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the percentage of time the airline's services appear on the first line of the screen displays; and (k) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the percentage of time the airline's services appear on the first screen of the screen displays.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
192 words
A method of simulating the screen presence of an airline's flight services on existing central reservation systems comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining airline flight schedule information; (b) using the airline flight information to build a record of all flight services on an origin-destination basis; (c) eliminating unattractive flight service options from the record; (d) entering a customer request for a flight service; (e) identifying potential flight services within the record which satisfy the customer request; (f) simulating the display screen of the central reservation systems that appear in response to the customer request; (g) storing the resultant displays in screen simulation files; (h) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the airline's services appearing on the first line of the screen displays; (i) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the airline's services appearing on the first screen of the screen displays; (j) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the percentage of time the airline's services appear on the first line of the screen displays; and (k) analyzing the screen simulation files to determine the percentage of time the airline's services appear on the first screen of the screen displays.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method according to claim 1 wherein the step of simulating the display screen of the central reservation systems that appear in response to the customer request is performed using the particular system display and edit rules.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
46 words
The method according to claim 1 wherein the step of using the airline flight information to build a record of all flight services on an origin-destination basis includes entering all connecting points for all flight services offered by airline travel providers in all markets of interest.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method according to claim 1 wherein the step of simulating the display screen of the central reservation systems is performed by modeling a category display.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
40 words
The method according to claim 4 wherein the category display contains a plurality of service divisions including nonstop, direct and connecting flight services which are ranked according to such factors such as displacement time, elapse time and number of stops.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method according to claim 1 wherein the step of simulating the display screen of the central reservation systems is performed by modeling an integrated display.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
45 words
The method according to claim 6 wherein the screen simulation process ranks all flight services on an at-large basis for displacement time, elapsed time, number of stops and other similar criteria used by existing central reservation systems to display integrated flight services to travel agents.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
46 words
The method according to claim 1 further including the step of determining the screen presence of an airline's flight service per individual market by taking into account a time of date distribution to account for differences in the frequency of consumer flight requests throughout the day.
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USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows
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| 3.5 Years (Year 4) | 2000-07-28 | 2001-01-27 | 2001-07-29 | $2000.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 2004-07-28 | 2005-01-27 | 2005-07-29 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 2008-07-28 | 2009-01-27 | 2009-07-29 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |