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AssigneeAmerican Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc., a New York Corporation
InventorsNancy Greene, Harvey Katz, David Kroner, Chris Munkacsy, Marniee Nottingham, Matthew Rogers
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Many customers are members of multiple frequent customer programs. When a customer wishes to book reward travel, searching each frequent customer program of which the customer is a member is difficult and time-consuming. A rewards program provider, such as a transactional account company, can provide members the opportunity to link frequent customer programs to the rewards program. When a customer searches for reward travel, the customer enters the request through the rewards program provider. The rewards program provider then sends a request to each frequent customer program which includes the customer identification. The frequent customer programs each return a search result tailored to the specific customer, taking into consideration the customer's status and point balance in the frequent customer program. The rewards program provider then allows the customer to book a selected reservation using points corresponding to a specific frequent customer program and/or points corresponding to the provider's rewards program.
A method of searching, transferring, and booking reward travel for a participant, comprising:
A system for searching, transferring, and booking reward travel for a participant, comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to search, transfer, and book reward travel, said control logic comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.