Aaron D Reid

US Patent:

6360205, Mar 19, 2002

Filed:

Mar 5, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/263310

Inventors:

Maya L. Iyengar - Aurora CO
Aaron J. Reid - Lakewood CO
Antoine K. Toffa - Parker CO
Russel W. Heithoff - Aurora CO

Assignee:

Trip.com, Inc. - Englewood CO

International Classification:

G06F 1700

US Classification:

705 5, 705 80

Abstract:

In accordance with the present invention, a method for providing reservation information related to airline flights, lodging, transportation and the like using a communications network is disclosed. In one embodiment, access to a server machine is divided into sessions. During a first session a user machine makes a first request for reservation information from the server machine. This first request includes input data from a first customer which relates to the desired reservation information. For example, the first customer may input travel times in the hopes of booking a flight which corresponds to those times. The server machine requests the reservation information from a number of target sites based upon the input data. Included in the number of target sites is a first and second target sites. The server machine obtains reservation information which includes first and second reservation information respectively from the first and second target sites.