Patents by Inventor John Blankenbaker

John Blankenbaker 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).

  • Publication number: 20140129265
    Abstract: A system, method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in accordance with an example embodiment in order to provide a collection of services in a cloud environment that may be utilized by partners and web developers to build innovative travel applications. An example method may comprise providing a plurality of application user interfaces (APIs) allowing development of an application, each of the plurality of APIs being classified as at least one of an informational service, a transactional service, or an intelligence service, each informational service comprising static content, each transactional service configured for at least one of booking, shopping, or fulfillment transactions, and each intelligence service comprising contextual performance metrics derived from at least one of shopping data or transactional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Sabre, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Arena, John Blankenbaker, Rajeev Bellubbi, James French, Rosauro Chito Manansala, Ben Vinod
  • Patent number: 6804658
    Abstract: An airline origin-destination revenue management software system supports decisions to accept or deny request for booking on airline seats by comparing the fare for the request with a minimum acceptable fare predetermined by the system. In order to determine the minimum acceptable fare, the system typically solves an optimization problem that takes as input the airline's flight network schedule, fares and forecasted passenger demands for all products available for booking on the airline's flight network, and available capacity on each of the airline's scheduled flights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Delta Air Lines, Inc.
    Inventors: Alvin Lim, John Blankenbaker, Andrew David
  • Publication number: 20030115093
    Abstract: An airline origin-destination revenue management software system supports decisions to accept or deny request for booking on airline seats by comparing the fare for the request with a minimum acceptable fare predetermined by the system. In order to determine the minimum acceptable fare, the system typically solves an optimization problem that takes as input the airline's flight network schedule, fares and forecasted passenger demands for all products available for booking on the airline's flight network, and available capacity on each of the airline's scheduled flights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: Delta Air Lines, Inc.
    Inventors: Alvin Lim, John Blankenbaker, Andrew David