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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2002
Andrew John Cardno, Wellington, NZ;
Nicholas John Mulgan, Wellington, NZ;
Compudigm International Limited, Wellington, NZ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of planning a travel route including maintaining in a memory a reference database comprising one or more travel data sets, each travel data set representing a travel option from a travel origin to a travel destination and including an origin identifier and a destination identifier, obtaining one or more travel preferences for a travel route from a user, retrieving one or more travel data sets from the reference database to construct one or more candidate travel plans, calculating a plurality of penalty values based on the user travel preferences, each penalty value associated with a corresponding travel data set, and selecting one or more candidate travel plans so as to minimize the sum of penalty values associated with the travel data sets of a candidate travel plan. The present invention encompasses hardware, software and firmware suitable to accomplish the method.