Sabre Inc.

The Sabre Group, Inc.

Russell L Strothmann

Gary J Potter

Stanislav Brezina

Tony Brice

Amela Abadzic

A system, method, and computer program product calculate the cost for a traveler to drive the traveler's personal vehicle on a trip of a defined distance and duration, and compare the cost of driving the traveler's personal vehicle to the cost of other transportation options, such as the cost of renting a vehicle and driving the rental vehicle on the trip. In this regard, a system for comparing a cost of driving a traveler's vehicle to a cost of other transportation options comprises a server capable of calculating a total cost to drive the traveler's vehicle on a trip. The server is further capable of calculating a total cost to drive a rental vehicle on the trip. The server is further capable of comparing the total cost to drive the traveler's vehicle on the trip to the total cost to drive the rental vehicle on the trip.

System, method, and computer program product for comparing the cost of driving an owned or leased vehicle to the cost various transportation options

Systems predict the availability of travel resources and select an appropriate data source for obtaining travel resource inventory availability information by analyzing historical travel resource availability data. Such systems receive customer travel requests and determine candidate itineraries. The candidate itineraries are used to determine the probability that the candidate itineraries will remain available for certain periods of time based on historical availability information and fare rules. Such systems increase the reliability of booking travel itineraries by determining when it is necessary to obtain updated availability information. The systems make this determination by looking up candidate itineraries in a situation table calculated from historical availability information.

Methods and apparatus for predicting airline seat availability

A system to evaluate movement of computer application functions from an existing computer system platform to an alternate computer system platform. The process includes determining the cost of a generic computing unit by dividing the total costs of the existing computer system platform by the total number of application functions. The percentage of the generic unit attributable to various categories is determined, including hardware and software, support and personnel, and facility costs. Yearly percentage cost changes for the existing computer system platform for a selected number of years are applied in each category. Training costs per generic unit for the alternate computer system platform are applied. The conversion costs per generic unit are applied to the generic unit. The costs of each category in the alternate computer system as a percentage of the existing computer system platform costs are applied to the generic unit to produce comparative costs of the alternate environment.

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Broken Arrow, OK, United States of America

Russell L Strothmann