System and method for providing enhanced information at the inventory

摘要

Computer-implemented travel reservation and booking system that comprises a reservation system and an inventory system coupled to an output of the reservation system to receive notifications from the reservation system. The inventory system has an output coupled with an inventory display system. The reservation system includes at least one data processor operating under control of software instructions stored in at least one memory to receive passenger name records (PNRs) associated with a particular segment and date and, for each received PNR, to determine if the received PNR has been priced or not; if the received PNR has actually been priced, then considering the actual price; if the received PNR has not been priced then the at least one data processor estimates a price; the at least one data processor further operates to prorate the actual price or the estimated price to obtain prorated prices for each segment and date of the PNR and to include the prorated prices in a notification sent from said reservation system to said inventory system, where the notification also includes booking-related counters. The inventory system comprises at least one data processor operating under control of software instructions stored in at least one memory to use the prorated prices in conjunction with the booking counters to compute a plurality of monetary-related counters and to output aggregated values of the monetary-related counters to the inventory display system for display to a user of the inventory system. A corresponding method is disclosed, as is a non-transitory computer-readable medium that contains software program instructions, where execution of the software program instructions by at least one data processor results in performance of operations that comprise execution of the method.