发明授权
US5270921A Virtual fare methods for a computerized airline seat inventory control
system
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计算机化航空公司座位库存控制系统的虚拟费用方法
- 专利标题: Virtual fare methods for a computerized airline seat inventory control system
- 专利标题(中): 计算机化航空公司座位库存控制系统的虚拟费用方法
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申请号: US640077申请日: 1991-01-11
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公开(公告)号: US5270921A公开(公告)日: 1993-12-14
- 发明人: Scot W. Hornick
- 申请人: Scot W. Hornick
- 申请人地址: IL Chicago
- 专利权人: Andersen Consulting
- 当前专利权人: Andersen Consulting
- 当前专利权人地址: IL Chicago
- 主分类号: G06Q10/00
- IPC分类号: G06Q10/00 ; G06F15/26
摘要:
An airline seat reservation system wherein seat reservations are controlled using, in part, a computerized seat inventory control system. The seat inventory control system, based on a concept termed Network-Based Expected Marginal Seat Revenue (EMSR), does not require the large number of variables required by the other network-based approaches, and it incorporates a probabilistic demand model without resorting to computationally intractable integer programming. The seat inventory control system uses iterative leg-based methods to control bookings in a flight network comprised of a plurality of itinerary/fare class combinations using a plurality of flight legs. When considering a particular flight leg, the total fare paid by a passenger using the leg is adjusted by taking into account an estimate of the displacement cost of the travel on the other legs of the itinerary to create a virtual fare. Expected marginal seat revenues (or more precisely, their current approximations) provide the displacement costs on the legs when computing virtual fares. Using these virtual fares, a leg-based optimization method is applied to the individual legs one-by-one to compute new approximations of the expected marginal seat revenues. This method is iterated until the expected marginal seat revenues concerge to their network-optimal values.