Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for selectively identifying lodging content from listings provided by different listing providers and generating a composite listing that includes content selected across the different providers. For example, systems described herein may include content selection models that are trained to select different content types from listings that are provided by different listing providers based on features of the content and/or users. The composite listing may enable a user to book a stay with a lodging facility based on content presented via different third-party content providers for the same facility.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 4, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
TRAVELPASS GROUP, LLC
Inventors:
Joshua Blair Anderson, Jason Wayne Stubbs, Alan M. Feuerlein
Abstract: Systems and methods for machine-based matching of lodging inventory from a plurality of disparate reservation provider systems address the difficulties inherent in comparing prices to obtain a lowest possible price, which difficulties are inherent in the distribution of inventory to multiple third-party reservation providers who are generally permitted to utilize their own naming conventions when describing lodging inventory and who are also free to at least some extent to set prices for the various lodging inventory within their control. The systems and methods match room types using information obtained from the multiple third-party reservation providers, whereby direct comparisons can be made between prices for the same room types even when the reservation providers do not utilize identical descriptions or naming conventions for the respective room inventories.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 15, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 10, 2023
Assignee:
TravelPass Group, LLC
Inventors:
Ryan Williams, Ryan McCoy, Daniel Nelson, Neil Valentine, Scott Jensen
Abstract: Systems and methods for machine-based matching of lodging inventory from a plurality of disparate reservation provider systems address the difficulties inherent in comparing prices to obtain a lowest possible price, which difficulties are inherent in the distribution of inventory to multiple third-party reservation providers who are generally permitted to utilize their own naming conventions when describing lodging inventory and who are also free to at least some extent to set prices for the various lodging inventory within their control. The systems and methods match room types using information obtained from the multiple third-party reservation providers, whereby direct comparisons can be made between prices for the same room types even when the reservation providers do not utilize identical descriptions or naming conventions for the respective room inventories.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 23, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 16, 2021
Assignee:
TravelPass Group, LLC
Inventors:
Ryan Williams, Ryan McCoy, Daniel Nelson, Neil Valentine, Scott Jensen
Abstract: A lowest rate on a multi-night lodging stay is achieved by obtaining lodging rate information for a first lodging location from a plurality of lodging rate sources. The information is correlated with a desired multi-night lodging stay to locate a lowest lodging rate for each of the nights of the desired multi-night lodging stay. Then, a plurality of lodging reservations corresponding to the multi-night lodging stay are generated, wherein at least two of the lodging reservations correspond to different nights of the multi-night lodging stay and are placed through different lodging reservation systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 9, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 2, 2021
Assignee:
TravelPass, Group, LLC
Inventors:
Daniel A. Nelson, Ryan Williams, Ryan McCoy, Neil Valentine, Steven Dalley, Bradley P. Pace