Price Comparison For Travel Or Accommodations
AssigneeWebsites By Jove, LLC
InventorsNina Holly, James Testa
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Abstract
Inter alia, methods, and means for price comparisons for travel and accommodations. One embodiment identifies an online database where users input the actual prices paid for travel services and accommodations, including any discounts, coupons, or price premiums. The database can be searched by all uses who have subscribed to the service. In one embodiment, the search criteria can any combination of vendor name, travel dates, start and end locations, booking date, flight number, etc. The users can thus determine the prices actually paid by other users for a given travel service or accommodation. This information could be valuable in negotiation better prices from vendors, or in determining if there are better times to make travel bookings.
Claims4
In combination:
- (a) an accommodations database containing travel accommodations, and
- (b) a means for searching accommodations database to find accommodations that match the search criteria for the accommodations, to select those accommodations and provide the price the users actually paid for the accommodations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.