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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:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2001
Applicants:
Richard A. Vaughan, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey T. Brinker, Seattle, WA (US);
Tomas A. D. Matos, Sammamish, WA (US);
Inventors:
Richard A. Vaughan, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey T. Brinker, Seattle, WA (US);
Tomas A. D. Matos, Sammamish, WA (US);
Assignee:
Expedia, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for managing inventory data are provided. A travel server obtains inventory data from one or more inventory suppliers and stores the inventory data as SKU group, SKU and SKU inventory records. The travel server utilizes the SKU group, SKU and SKU inventory records to process user requests for available inventory and supplier inventory action requests.