Patents by Inventor Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl
Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl 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).
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Publication number: 20140310032Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes selecting accommodations during a travel reservation is described. The method includes receiving, at a software application that manages travel reservations, input that customizes configurable attributes of software travel objects representing accommodations used in transportation of passengers. The method also includes receiving criteria from a customer specifying preferences that affect a passenger's experience during travel, ranking the received criteria so that one or more criterion are preferred, selecting one or more of the accommodations using an optimization function to compare the ranked criteria to the customized configurable attributes, and outputting the selected one or more accommodations for use by the customer in selecting a first accommodation for the passenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: William Christopher Stirlen, Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl
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Patent number: 8805710Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes selecting accommodations during a travel reservation is described. The method includes receiving, at a software application that manages travel reservations, input that customizes configurable attributes of software travel objects representing accommodations used in transportation of passengers. The method also includes receiving criteria from a customer specifying preferences that affect a passenger's experience during travel, ranking the received criteria so that one or more criterion are preferred, selecting one or more of the accommodations using an optimization function to compare the ranked criteria to the customized configurable attributes, and outputting the selected one or more accommodations for use by the customer in selecting a first accommodation for the passenger.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: William Christopher Stirlen, Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl
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Publication number: 20140200933Abstract: This document describes a computer-implemented method for guiding a user through a travel check-in procedure. The method includes receiving passenger identification information associated with a passenger checking in for a travel segment, and determining a check-in status of the passenger using the passenger identification information. The method also includes generating a check-in workflow based on the check-in status of the passenger. The method further includes providing for display on a user interface a current step in the check-in workflow, the current step corresponding to a current action in the check-in workflow to be completed by a user, and upon request of the user to continue to a next step in the workflow, providing for display on the user interface the next step in the check-in workflow, the next step corresponding to a next action in the check-in workflow to be completed by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Eric Allan Frome, Divish Priya Ranjan, Rosalie Mack Phillips, Seth Aaron Horowitz
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Patent number: 8706533Abstract: This document describes a computer-implemented method for guiding a user through a travel check-in procedure. The method includes receiving passenger identification information associated with a passenger checking in for a travel segment, and determining a check-in status of the passenger using the passenger identification information. The method also includes generating a check-in workflow based on the check-in status of the passenger. The method further includes providing for display on a user interface a current step in the check-in workflow, the current step corresponding to a current action in the check-in workflow to be completed by a user, and upon request of the user to continue to a next step in the workflow, providing for display on the user interface the next step in the check-in workflow, the next step corresponding to a next action in the check-in workflow to be completed by the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Eric Allan Frome, Divish Priya Ranjan, Rosalie Mack Phillips, Seth Aaron Horowitz
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Publication number: 20140058771Abstract: This document describes a computer-implemented method for facilitating a check-in finalization process for a travel passenger. The method includes receiving one or more check-in parameters related to a check-in procedure for a passenger checking in for a travel segment, and determining from the received check-in parameters a check-in workflow status corresponding to which of a plurality of steps of the check-in procedure have been completed. The method also includes identifying one or more finalization actions that are available for finalizing the check-in procedure based on the check-in workflow status. The method further includes determining a primary finalization action from the one or more finalization actions, the primary finalization action being the finalization action most likely to be taken to finalize the check-in procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Inventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Eric Allan Frome, Divish Priya Ranjan, Rosalie Mack Phillips, Seth Aaron Horowitz
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Patent number: 8645172Abstract: This document describes a computer-implemented method for facilitating a check-in finalization process for a travel passenger. The method includes receiving one or more check-in parameters related to a check-in procedure for a passenger checking in for a travel segment, and determining from the received check-in parameters a check-in workflow status corresponding to which of a plurality of steps of the check-in procedure have been completed. The method also includes identifying one or more finalization actions that are available for finalizing the check-in procedure based on the check-in workflow status. The method further includes determining a primary finalization action from the one or more finalization actions, the primary finalization action being the finalization action most likely to be taken to finalize the check-in procedure.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Eric Allan Frome, Divish Priya Ranjan, Rosalie Mack Phillips, Seth Aaron Horowitz
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Publication number: 20110054953Abstract: This document describes a computer-implemented method for guiding a user through a travel check-in procedure. The method includes receiving passenger identification information associated with a passenger checking in for a travel segment, and determining a check-in status of the passenger using the passenger identification information. The method also includes generating a check-in workflow based on the check-in status of the passenger. The method further includes providing for display on a user interface a current step in the check-in workflow, the current step corresponding to a current action in the check-in workflow to be completed by a user, and upon request of the user to continue to a next step in the workflow, providing for display on the user interface the next step in the check-in workflow, the next step corresponding to a next action in the check-in workflow to be completed by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Eric Allan Frome, Divish Priya Ranjan, Rosalie Mack Phillips, Seth Aaron Horowitz
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Publication number: 20110054954Abstract: This document describes a computer-implemented method for facilitating a check-in finalization process for a travel passenger. The method includes receiving one or more check-in parameters related to a check-in procedure for a passenger checking in for a travel segment, and determining from the received check-in parameters a check-in workflow status corresponding to which of a plurality of steps of the check-in procedure have been completed. The method also includes identifying one or more finalization actions that are available for finalizing the check-in procedure based on the check-in workflow status. The method further includes determining a primary finalization action from the one or more finalization actions, the primary finalization action being the finalization action most likely to be taken to finalize the check-in procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Eric Allan Frome, Divish Priya Ranjan, Rosalie Mack Phillips, Seth Aaron Horowitz
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Patent number: 7849023Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes receiving digital accommodation criteria for an accommodation assignment requested for a passenger and accessing accommodation properties that specify characteristics of accommodations offered on a travel conveyance. A first portion of the accommodation properties are base properties and a second portion of the accommodation properties are derivation properties derived from the base properties during execution of a software program configured to access the accommodation properties. The process also includes assigning weights to the accommodation properties based on a comparison between the accommodation properties and the received accommodation criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Richard Joseph Lamprea Montero, Michal Mudron, William Christopher Stirlen
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Publication number: 20090240679Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes receiving digital accommodation criteria for an accommodation assignment requested for a passenger and accessing accommodation properties that specify characteristics of accommodations offered on a travel conveyance. A first portion of the accommodation properties are base properties and a second portion of the accommodation properties are derivation properties derived from the base properties during execution of a software program configured to access the accommodation properties. The process also includes assigning weights to the accommodation properties based on a comparison between the accommodation properties and the received accommodation criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES GMBHInventors: Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl, Richard Joseph Lamprea Montero, Michal Mudron, William Christopher Stirlen
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Publication number: 20090063204Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes defining software travel objects that are configurable to represent a variety of types of accommodations used in transportation of passengers, associating the software travel objects with configurable properties that specify accommodation attributes that affect a passenger's experience during travel, and receiving, through a user interface, information used to customize the configurable properties during run-time of a software application that manages travel reservations for accommodations. The process also includes outputting the customized configurable properties for use by a user in a selection of one or more of the accommodations during a travel reservation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES GMBHInventors: William Christopher Stirlen, Thomas Walter Heinrich Mehl