REARDEN COMMERCE, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130041902 | TRAVEL SERVICES SEARCH - A system and method for searching travel services. A server computer receives a travel request from a client device operated by a user. The server computer identifies travel options according to the travel request. The server computer classifies the travel options into predefined groups, the classifying based on at least one of past transactions, input from domain experts, input from semantic analysts, analytics data, user preferences, and company policies. The server computer presents the options via presentation of the predefined groups. | 02-14-2013 |
20100211419 | Systems and Methods to Present Travel Options - Systems and methods to present travel options in response to a search request. In one aspect, after a computer system receives a search request from a user, the computer system determines a plurality of travel options in response to the search request. The computer system then presents the travel options using a chart having a dimension graphically representing travel times of the travel options, such as in a Gantt chart with a graphical timescale, which may have a representation of an analog clock. | 08-19-2010 |
20100191572 | Systems and Methods to Use Rules and Constraints for Service Consolidation - Systems and methods to consolidate user preferences for a service and make suggestions for options related to the service. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes: storing preferences of a plurality of users for a service; storing past options that have been previously selected for the service; in response to a request for the service for a subset of the users, combining the preferences of the subset of the users to generate a preference set for the subset of the users, based on a set of predetermined rules, using a computer; and selecting an option based on the preference set generated for the subset of users and the past options that have been previously selected for the service, using the computer. | 07-29-2010 |
20100057565 | Systems and Methods for a Graphical Personal Assistant with Context-Sensitive Advertising - A system and method provides an advertiser access to a plurality of utilities that allow users to electronically manage trip items in a trip itinerary. An interactive tool allows the advertiser to create an advertisement related to the trip items. An identification of utilities in the plurality of utilities in which the advertisement will appear is received from the advertiser. The advertisement is inserted in the identified utilities. | 03-04-2010 |
20100023407 | System and Method for Availability-Based Limited-Time Offerings and Transactions - System and method for availability based on limited-time offerings and transactions. One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that, based on a set of known preferences and historic transactions with customers, culls from a customer database those customers most likely to close a transaction in a short time. The selected customers are notified of the offer, and the system processes the customers responses in a timely manner, and thus allow fleeting inventories to be sold off before they expire. | 01-28-2010 |
20090248457 | System and Method for Providing Travel Schedule of Contacts - One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system, for providing the travel schedule of traveler's contacts. One embodiment of the method comprises receiving a travel itinerary for a traveler; identifying at least one travel segment option corresponding to the travel itinerary of the traveler; identifying from one or more of the traveler's sets of contacts, one or more contacts that have selected the travel segment option identified for the traveler; and presenting for selection the travel segment option for the traveler, and presenting the one or more contacts that have selected the travel segment option identified for the traveler. | 10-01-2009 |
20090210261 | System and Method for Multi-Modal Travel Shopping - One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system, for obtaining a starting point and a destination point for a traveler; identifying multiple options of transportation modes to travel from the starting point to the destination point, and identifying a costs and travel time associated respectively with each transportation mode to travel from a departure terminal to an arrival terminal; identifying respectively for each transportation mode, a costs and travel time associated with local transportation from the starting point to a departure terminal, and identifying a costs and travel time associated with local transportation from an arrival terminal to the destination point; presenting to the traveler for selection, the multiple options of transportation modes to travel from the starting point to the destination point, including costs and travel time associated respectively with each option of transportation mode, including local transportation from the starting point to the departure terminal, from the departure terminal to the arrival terminal, and local transportation from the arrival terminal to the destination point; receiving a selection of a transportation mode and reserving the transportation associated with the respective transportation mode. | 08-20-2009 |
20090125355 | System and Method for Optimization of Group Shipments to Reduce Shipping Costs - Described herein is a method and system to provide optimizing shipping costs that can help arbitrate between a precise solution at an unreasonable cost and a reasonable solution at a very reasonable cost. | 05-14-2009 |
20090101710 | Method and System for Unified Presentation of Event Booking Systems - In one embodiment, a system, that may be executed as a method, is provided for managing the booking of event tickets inside a single system, regardless of the source of the tickets and how the system of each ticket provider actually works. | 04-23-2009 |
20090030769 | System and Method for Latency Management Assistant - One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system, for receiving an electronic communication from a user, the communication identifying a delay incurred or to be incurred by the user, relative to a pre-identified schedule of events; in response to receiving the electronic communication, accessing data identifying the pre-identified schedule of events; generating one or more options to reschedule one or more events of the schedule of events to account for the identified delay of the user; sending to the user the one or more options to reschedule one or more events of the schedule of events to account for the identified delay of the user; and, in response to receiving at least one of a selection from the user, sending notification of the reschedule to one or more of attendees and service providers of the scheduled events. | 01-29-2009 |
20090030742 | System and Method for Tentative Booking When Service Providers are Temporarily Unavailable - One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system, for receiving a request from a user to perform at least one of schedule an event or book a transaction; selecting a service provider to schedule the event or book the transaction; contacting the selected service provider to schedule the event or book the transaction; in response to at least one of failure to establish a connection with the selected service provider or failure to receive a response from the selected service provider, notifying the user of the failure and requesting the user submit transaction data to schedule the event or book the transaction with the service provider at a subsequent time; and subsequent to receiving the transaction data from the user, establishing a connection with the selected service provider and using the received transaction data to schedule the event or book the transaction with the selected service provider. | 01-29-2009 |
20090030609 | System and Method for Proactive Agenda Management - One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system for identifying a schedule of events for a first user, the schedule of events comprising of one or more of appointments and travel arrangements; identifying a current location of the first user relative to a scheduled location of the first user based on the schedule of events; in response to a divergence between a current location and a scheduled location, projecting a latency for one or more remaining scheduled events; and in response to the projected latency meeting or exceeding an identified amount, identifying priorities among remaining scheduled events and rescheduling one or more remaining scheduled events based on the identified priorities. | 01-29-2009 |
20090006143 | System and Method for Interactive Natural Language Rebooking or Rescheduling of Calendar Activities - One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system, for receiving from a user a request to reschedule a scheduled itinerary of events, the request received in a natural language format; passing the request through a natural language analyzer; processing results of the natural language analyzer against at least one of a current status of progress into the scheduled itinerary and profile data of the user, the profile comprising previous changes of itineraries and preferences of the user; generating one or more options in response to the user request to modify the scheduled itinerary of events, based on available options and based on the processing of the results of the natural language analyzer against at least one of current scheduled itinerary and profile data of the user; and presenting the one or more options to the user in the natural language format in which the user submitted the request. | 01-01-2009 |
20090006142 | System and Method for Tracking Spending Based on Reservations and Payments - One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system for obtaining a schedule of bookings made by a user through an electronic service portal; obtaining a schedule of payment transactions to pay for bookings, the payment transactions comprising one or more of a credit card payment, a cash payment, or a payment via a cash card or debit card; and using the schedule of bookings made via the electronic service portal to identify payment transactions reimbursable to the user from a separate entity and generating an expense report of the reimbursable payment transactions. | 01-01-2009 |
20080201432 | System and Method for Facilitating Transfer of Experience Data in to Generate a New Member Profile for a Online Service Portal - System and method for facilitating trasfer of experience data to generate new member profile is described. In one embodiment, the method, which can be performed on a system, comprises, in response to a user being added as a member of an online service portal, accessing from a database of the service portal, the interactions between the user and the service portal from before the user joined the service portal as a member; and, generating a member profile for the user based on the interactions between the user and the service portal from before the user joined the service portal as a member. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201197 | System and Method for Peer Person- And Situation-Based Recommendations - A system and method for peer person and/or situation-based recommendations. In one embodiment, the method, which may be implemented on a system, comprises receiving a request for a set of entertainment events, the requesting comprising at least one of an identity of an inviter and an identify of an invitee; selecting a first set of entertainment events from a database by comparing information in the request to one or more units of data in the database, comprising peers of the inviter, peers of the invitee; and, providing to be viewed the first set of entertainment events selected from the database. In an alternative embodiment, the selecting the set of entertainment events from the database, further comprises comparing information in the request to one or more units of data in the database, comprising peer companies of the invitee, peer companies of the inviter. | 08-21-2008 |