US Patent 7966205 Fare rules summarizer for travel planning

Patent 7966205 was granted and assigned to ITA Software on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

ITA Software

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

79662050

Patent Inventor Names

Rodney Daughtrey0

Date of Patent

June 21, 2011

Patent Application Number

098122240

Date Filed

March 19, 2001

Patent Primary Examiner

Thomas Dixon

Patent abstract

A user interface for a fare summary tool is described. The user interface is for display on a monitor and includes a fare evaluation result table that displays fare rule summaries for fares in slices of an itinerary. A method for producing a rule summary is also described. The method retrieves fares and fare rules for a city pair over a specified time period and evaluates the retrieved fares against the retrieve rules to return a status corresponding to pass, fail defer. The method produces a summary of the results of evaluating the rules that indicates the status of the rules for each category of rules and displays the summary on a user output device.