Automated fulfillment system for optimizing web-based transactions
OwnerJeffrey Maxwellinventor
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Abstract
In a method and system for providing travel fulfillment, a plurality of criteria for the travel fulfillment is received by a client from a user. Continual searches for the published prices fulfilling the plurality of prices are conducted concurrently during a time interval by the client and a server coupled to the client via a network. An optimum price satisfying at least one price criteria defined by the user is determined within the published prices. The optimum price is stored and an alert message is sent to the user advising about the travel fulfillment.
Claims20
A method for providing travel fulfillment, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of criteria for the travel fulfillment;
- searching for published prices fulfilling the plurality of criteria, wherein the searching for the published prices occurs continually during a time interval included in the plurality of criteria;
- determining an optimum price within the published prices, wherein the optimum price fulfils at least one price criteria;
- and
- saving the optimum price.
A travel fulfillment system, the system comprising:
- a network;
- a client having a web browser, the client being coupled to the network, wherein the client is operable to execute a client application program for travel fulfillment, wherein the client application program is executable to configure a plurality of criteria for the travel fulfillment, wherein the client application program continually searches selectable nodes of the network for published prices fulfilling the plurality of criteria;
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- a server coupled to the client via the network, wherein the server is operable to execute a server application program to continually search alternate selectable nodes of the network for the published prices fulfilling the plurality of criteria, wherein the server application program and the client application program work co-operatively to determine an optimum price within the published prices, wherein the optimum price fulfils at least one price criteria.
A computer readable medium for providing travel fulfillment, the computer readable medium having instructions for causing a computer system to execute a method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of criteria for the travel fulfillment;
- searching for published prices fulfilling the plurality of criteria, wherein the searching for the published prices occurs continually during a time interval included in the plurality of criteria;
- determining an optimum price within the published prices, wherein the optimum price fulfils at least one price criteria;
- and
- saving the optimum price.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.