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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
May. 21, 2009
Applicant:
Arthur Francis Champernowne, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventor:
Arthur Francis Champernowne, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Expedia, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06Q 50/14 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for processing fare queries to find the best fares. In one embodiment of this invention a query server utilizes a branching and bounding based technique to implicitly enumerate possible solutions to arrive at best fare solutions.