Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing the booking of travel inventory items at an inventory system. A booking request for a type of travel inventory item managed by the inventory system may be received at the inventory system. An expiration time may be determined based at least in part on the booking request, and a travel booking for a travel inventory item of the type may be confirmed based at least in part on the booking request. The inventory system may be updated based on the booked travel inventory item.

Abstract: A computer-implemented travel reservation and booking system includes a reservation system and an inventory system coupled to an output of the reservation system to receive notifications from the reservation system. The inventory system has an output coupled with an inventory display system. The reservation system includes at least one data processor operating under control of software instructions stored in at least one memory to receive passenger name records (PNRs) associated with a particular segment and date and, for each received PNR, to determine if the received PNR has been priced or not. If the received PNR has been priced, then considering the actual price. If the received PNR has not been priced then the at least one data processor estimates a price and further operates to prorate the actual price or the estimated price to obtain prorated prices for each segment and date.

Abstract: A method of generating an offer for resources, such as a hotel room, which meets a customer request and satisfies at least one customer preferences to a predetermined extent, the method comprising: receiving a customer request for one or more resources meeting one or more requirements; searching for a set of resources which meet one or more of the requirements; determining one or more customer preferences from a set of business rules; determining an order of importance for the one or more customer preferences; applying the most important customer preference to the set of resources to select the resources which satisfies the most important customer preference to a predetermined extent so as to produce a revised set of resources; and creating an offer for presentation to a customer from the revised set of resources such that the customer may select an offer for purchase.