Appeal 2007-1315
Application 09/828,437
1 accept one of the recommendations or reject all the recommendations. If
2 the user does not accept any of the recommendations, the CR 126 re-
3 executes searches using relaxed constraints and is used here to look for a
4 larger range of hotels (step 440) and processing continues with step 400.
5 If HS 118 determines that the user selected a hotel, then HS 118 reserves
6 the hotel using CRS 130 (step 450) and the itinerary is updated (step
7 460).” (Jones, ¶ [0047].)
8 08. Jones describes an embodiment of a search based on pricing in its
9 description of its car rental selection. “In FIG. 5a, GTS 124 sends
10 display data to presentation program 108 providing the user the option of
11 renting a car (step 510). If the user decides to rent a car, then GTS 124
12 sends display data representing rental car recommendations found in
13 travel database 140 (step 515). FIG. 5b shows an example display on
14 display 106 by presentation program 108 showing a rental car company
15 and information about the car and allows the user the option of reserving
16 it. The user may then select a rental car (step 516) and a reservation is
17 made (step 518). After making the reservation, the rental car is added to
18 the itinerary (step 519). If the user did not select any of the displayed
19 rental car recommendations, then GTS 124 invokes CR 126, broadening
20 the scope of the search for the rental car recommendations by relaxing
21 any constraints such as cost (step 517).” (Jones, ¶ [0049].)
22 09. Jones describes returning cost and other descriptive data regarding
23 restaurant choices in FIG. 6a. “ARS 122 refers to a database of
24 restaurants and activities and their addresses held within travel database
25 140. If a user desires to select a restaurant (step 600) then ARS 122
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