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H04L 12/16 (2006.01) H04L 9/32 (2006.01) G06F 17/60 (2000.01)
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CA 2334177
A reservation method and system for limousine services and other surface transportation services of vendors which supply both a vehicle and a driver. Each vendor specifies when and where it will pick up and drop off travelers; the number and type of vehicles it has; the percentage of each type which is available for new reservations; and the manner (time and/or distance) in which its base price is to be determined. Customer desired pickup and drop off locations are compared to those serviced by vendors to determine those vendors for which both the pickup and dropoff locations for a particular trip are within the region serviced by a single vendor, and whether the desired vehicle is available; and if so, the customer is advised accordingly, a corresponding reservation is booked, and the customer's credit card account is charged. Reservations are scanned to extract those for which corresponding pickup or dropoff times are within a specified number of hours in the future. Where a pickup place is an airport, the extracted reservations are cross-checked against status information respecting corresponding airline flights to determine those reservations for which a corresponding flight arrival time is delayed or advanced, or the flight has been diverted. Reservation changes are made to reallocate vehicles of the same vendor, or to change the reservation to a different vendor, in accordance with such flight information changes and vehicle availability.
Wagner Richard T.
Zappulla Edward
Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Novatran Holding Inc.
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