ROBERT F WILSON, MD
Osteopathic Medicine at Delaware St, Minneapolis, MN

2007014, Jun 21, 2007

Dec 20, 2005

11/313138

Roger Ashby - Edina MN, US
Michael Lawrence - Eden Prairie MN, US
Robert Wilson - Minneapolis MN, US

G06Q 10/00

705005000

A customer-based availability system and method for a service provider such as a transportation carrier is disclosed. This system and method provides programmable logic to allow predetermined request types and service types to be defined. Associations are then formed between request types and service types. When a request is received from a potential customer to book a service, it is automatically determined whether the request is included within one of the request types. If so, it is automatically determined whether that request type is associated with a service type that includes the requested service. If this is the case, the request is allowed to book the service regardless of whether the service is considered to be unavailable, or the sale of the service is otherwise restricted.

2007015, Jul 5, 2007

Dec 29, 2005

11/321509

Thomas Bird - Eagan MN, US
Roger Hed - Eagan MN, US
Robert Wilson - Minneapolis MN, US

G06Q 10/00

705005000

The invention is directed to a computer environment in which a management system for a transportation carrier, e.g., an airline carrier, generates a list of routings based on preference data for a customer. The preference data includes data that may be used to select a particular routing, e.g., ticket class, seat assignment, meal service, airline, type of aircraft, connection points, connection times, fare, and an extended travel window. The preference data may be entered via a network user interface and stored in a central database. One or more profiles may be stored for a customer, such as a business profile, personal profile, or trip specific profiles. In this manner, when a user submits a search request, the management system generates a list of routings that satisfy the customer preference data. Furthermore, the management system may provide increased performance by reducing the number of search requests submitted by a customer.

2009018, Jul 16, 2009

Dec 20, 2005

11/313105

Roger J. Ashby - Edina MN, US
Michael J. Lawrence - Eden Prairie MN, US
Robert T. Wilson - Minneapolis MN, US

G06Q 10/00, G06Q 50/00

705 5, 705 10

A system and method for managing inventory on a market basis is disclosed. When employed by a transportation carrier, the system allows for the creation of a market group that includes a limited amount of space that is provided by any one or more of a certain group of physical routes (e.g., airline flights traveling between predetermined departure and destination points flying on selected dates). A qualifying customer or request may book one or more seats to this market group rather than to a specific physical route. The customer is guaranteed a seat on one of the physical routes, but is not informed as to the route on which travel will occur until a time closer to departure when the space allocated to the market group is mapped to the physical routes. In one embodiment, the market groups are defined using programmable business rules of a type interpreted by a rules engine.