Providing travel destination information
AssigneeTriporati, Inc.
InventorsJim Hornthal, Sharlene Wang, Patrick Middleton, Patrick McKeever, Nishant Menon, Stuart Dodgson
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Abstract
Embodiments generally relate to providing travel destinations. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining first travel destination information associated with a first travel destination. The method also includes determining one or more alternative travel destinations based on similarities between each alternative travel destination and the first travel destination and based on pricing. The method also includes providing the one or more alternative travel destinations and pricing.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining first travel destination information associated with a first travel destination;
- determining one or more alternative travel destinations based on similarities between each alternative travel destination and the first travel destination and based on pricing, wherein the determining comprises excluding one or more alternative travel destinations that are either within a predetermined distance from an origin city or within a predetermined distance from the first travel destination;
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- causing a user interface to display a comparison between the first travel destination and the one or more alternative travel destinations, wherein the comparison indicates the pricing of the first travel destination compared to the pricing of the one or more alternative travel destinations, and wherein the comparison indicates which attributes of each of the one or more alternative travel destinations are similar those attributes of the first travel destination.
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Software encoded in one or more computer-readable media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining first travel destination information associated with a first travel destination;
- determining one or more alternative travel destinations based on similarities between each alternative travel destination and the first travel destination and based on pricing, wherein the determining comprises excluding one or more alternative travel destinations that are either within a predetermined distance from an origin city or within a predetermined distance from the first travel destination;
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- causing a user interface to display a comparison between the first travel destination and the one or more alternative travel destinations, wherein the comparison indicates the pricing of the first travel destination compared to the pricing of the one or more alternative travel destinations, and wherein the comparison indicates which attributes of each of the one or more alternative travel destinations are similar those attributes of the first travel destination.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining first travel destination information associated with a first travel destination;
- determining one or more alternative travel destinations based on similarities between each alternative travel destination and the first travel destination and based on pricing, wherein the determining comprises excluding one or more alternative travel destinations that are either within a predetermined distance from an origin city or within a predetermined distance from the first travel destination;
- causing a user interface to display a comparison between the first travel destination and the one or more alternative travel destinations, wherein the comparison indicates the pricing of the first travel destination compared to the pricing of the one or more alternative travel destinations, and wherein the comparison indicates which attributes of each of the one or more alternative travel destinations are similar those attributes of the first travel destination enabling a user to customize an interest profile, wherein the interest profile specifies particular interests of the user;
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- providing updated alternative travel destinations to the user based on the customized interest profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.