Patents by Inventor Aaron J. Reid

Aaron J. Reid has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6360205
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Trip.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Maya L. Iyengar, Aaron J. Reid, Antoine K. Toffa, Russel W. Heithoff