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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2023
Capital One Services, Llc, McLean, VA (US);
Viraj Chaudhary, Katy, TX (US);
Abdelkader M'hamed Benkreira, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Jennifer Kwok, New York, NY (US);
Capital One Services, LLC, McLean, VA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method includes receiving, by a processor, flight information from a computer device associated with an airline identifying a flight and passengers on the flight that purchased flight tickets by utilizing payment cards associated with a card authorizing entity. Passenger food preferences for the flight passengers based at least in part on historical payment card transaction data of the flight passengers is received from a computing device associated with the card authorizing entity based on the flight information. A food inventory available to be serviced on the flight is received. Automatically determining a flight-specific food inventory, to minimize an overall weight of the flight-specific food inventory to be carried by the flight based on the passenger food preferences. Automatically transmitting food packing instructions to a packing-related machine based on the flight-specific food inventory so as to assemble a portion of the flight-specific food inventory.