Patents by Inventor Louis A. Stannard

Louis A. Stannard 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: 4845625
    Abstract: A system and procedure is disclosed for evaluating published bid line data of commercial airlines and developing therefrom an ordered set of bid lines arranged according to the degree to which such bid lines tend to satisfy individually expressed preferences and priorities of an airline employee. A system subscriber enters his or her preferences and priorities, according to preestablished defined categories, into a computer database, preferably inputting the information through key entries on a touch tone telephone. Subsequently, when monthly bid lines are published by the employer airline, the various bid lines are computer analyzed, one by one, against the subscriber's recorded preferences and priorities, evaluating such data as credit hours, layovers, arrivals and departures, trips, days off, etc. The output of the syste is an ordered list of flight numbers, specific to a given subscriber, arranged in order of tendency to satisfy the subscriber's expressed preferences and priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Inventor: Louis A. Stannard