20100049556 | INTERNET MEDIATED BOOKING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a system for providing and pricing travel product inventory contained in external databases not under the control of the operator and additionally comprises ghost databases which are a mirror of the external databases. The system further comprises an information manager adapted to receive search criteria from a user and to apply pricing rules to the search results which determine the final display price quoted to the user. The information manager thereafter filters the priced search results by a productmaster UID to group the same actual travel product inventory as supplied by different suppliers, into a single search result, and then provides the grouped results to the user connected to the system via the communications module. | 02-25-2010 |