FLIGHT-RECOMMENDATION-AND-BOOKING METHODS AND SYSTEMS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING

摘要

The current document is directed to methods and systems, including an automated flight-recommendation-and-booking system that provide accurate, short lists of flights that best match a user's preferences and flight parameters specified by the user. In addition, the automated flight-recommendation-and-booking system learns, over time, to provide the most desirable flights to each user. The currently disclosed systems continuously monitor and store detailed information with regard to users' interactions with the systems, flight information, and other types of information that can be used to more accurately identify suitable flights for particular users. The currently disclosed systems initially provide, to a requesting user, information for only a small number of flights that closely correspond to the user's preferences and flight parameters and employ automated machine-learning methods to continuously track users' searches and flight selections in order learn users' preferences and to track users' preferences as they change and evolve, over time.