Travel Search Trip Object Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current travel search platforms do not effectively facilitate user collaboration and sharing of search results, limiting the ability to organize and plan trips collectively.
Innovation Solution
A travel search machine that generates and assigns search results to user-selected trip objects, allowing users to share these trip objects with others, enabling collaboration through comments and ratings, and facilitating the planning of trips by linking search results to a trip identifier.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If search results are presented individually without organization, then users can view search results, but users cannot efficiently organize and share trip-related information collectively
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments search results into organized trip objects that group related travel information (flights, hotels, activities) together. Each trip object serves as a container that organizes scattered search results into coherent trip plans, enabling users to systematically manage and share trip-related information without losing any search results.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple search results and trip objects into shareable trip plans that can be collectively viewed and edited by multiple users. By merging individual search results into unified trip objects, the system enables collaborative trip planning while preserving all original search information.
2Adaptability or versatility
If trip objects are made shareable with multiple users, then user collaboration is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements trip objects as universal containers that serve multiple functions: storing search results, enabling sharing, facilitating collaboration, and organizing trip information. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems for each capability, thereby managing complexity while enhancing adaptability and user collaboration.
3Stability of the object's composition
If search results are linked to trip identifiers, then trip organization is improved, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates trip objects as structured copies or representations of search results, linked to trip identifiers. Instead of complex direct linkages, the system uses trip objects as intermediary copies that organize search results and link them to trip plans, simplifying the data structure while maintaining stable trip information composition.
Data Source
AI summary
A travel search machine generates a trip object defined by a corresponding trip identifier. The trip object may have a corresponding trip data structure to which one or more search results may be assigned by a user. For example, the travel search machine may be configured to receive a trip identifier as a submission from a user device, generate a trip data structure corresponding to the trip identifier, and responsive to a received command from a user device, assign one or more search results to the trip data structure, such that reference to the trip data structure via the received trip identifier causes a presentation of at least some of the one or more search results assigned to the trip data structure.