Patents by Inventor Frederic Hoff

Frederic Hoff 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: 11227237
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for processing exchange requests. An itinerary change request is received to modify at least one attribute of an existing ticket that includes one or more existing ancillary services. A replacement ticket and one or more replacement ancillary services may be identified by identifying a recommendation for a replacement ticket, determining whether the one or more existing ancillary services are available with the replacement ticket, constructing a search filter including category descriptions and a similarity score for the one or more replacement ancillary services, and transmitting the recommendation for the replacement ticket and one or more replacement ancillary services to a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: AMADEUS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Romain Baron, Yannick Hoffsess, Frederic Hoff, Cedric Dourthe, Alexandre Chabod
  • Publication number: 20190258966
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for processing exchange requests. An itinerary change request is received to modify at least one attribute of an existing ticket that includes one or more existing ancillary services. A replacement ticket and one or more replacement ancillary services may be identified by identifying a recommendation for a replacement ticket, determining whether the one or more existing ancillary services are available with the replacement ticket, constructing a search filter including category descriptions and a similarity score for the one or more replacement ancillary services, and transmitting the recommendation for the replacement ticket and one or more replacement ancillary services to a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Romain Baron, Yannick Hoffsess, Frederic Hoff, Cedric Dourthe, Alexandre Chabod
  • Patent number: 8428980
    Abstract: A central computer system for processing user travel requests including an outbound journey and an inbound journey, includes elements for calculating and returning information on travel products to user, including sale prices, the central computer system being accessible from at least one user terminal, and including: A travel solutions search engine that can access at least one travel segment database (FDB) and having elements for determining outbound segments and inbound segments that comply with input criteria; A fare search engine having elements to determine the fare associated with possible travel solutions; A travel products grouping engine that applies grouping criteria which include at least one fare equivalence criterion; Elements for extracting the outbound and inbound segments from each group of travel products; Elements for displaying information on at least one group of travel products on the user terminal, separating the outbound segments and inbound segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Amadeus S.A.S.
    Inventors: Thierry Blaszka, Gilles Chaumont, Rudy Daniello, Cedric Dourthe, Frederic Hoff
  • Publication number: 20070233529
    Abstract: A travel product reservation system having a central computer system for processing the user requests, includes elements for calculating and returning to the user selling price information relating to travel products, the central computer system being accessible from at least one user station. The reservation system includes: database containing rules for determining the association with a fare family for each travel fare, a search engine for products that meet the input criteria of a user request and associated fares, the search engine being in communication with the database for accessing the determination rules and applying them to the travel products that meet the input criteria, for returning to the user station, for display, a reply containing information relating to the products that meet the input criteria, sorting them into fare families.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: AMADEUS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Benedicte Isnardon, Thierry Blaszka, Frederic Hoff, Natalia Perekhvatova, Rudy Daniello
  • Publication number: 20070233530
    Abstract: A central computer system for processing user travel requests including an outbound journey and an inbound journey, includes elements for calculating and returning information on travel products to user, including sale prices, the central computer system being accessible from at least one user terminal, and including: A travel solutions search engine that can access at least one travel segment database (FDB) and having elements for determining outbound segments and inbound segments that comply with input criteria; A fare search engine having elements to determine the fare associated with possible travel solutions; A travel products grouping engine that applies grouping criteria which include at least one fare equivalence criterion; Elements for extracting the outbound and inbound segments from each group of travel products; Elements for displaying information on at least one group of travel products on the user terminal, separating the outbound segments and inbound segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: AMADEUS s.a.s.
    Inventors: Thierry Blaszka, Gilles Chaumont, Rudy Daniello, Cedric Dourthe, Frederic Hoff