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Abstract

A system and procedure is disclosed for evaluating published bid line data of commercial airlines and developing therefrom an ordered set of bid lines arranged according to the degree to which such bid lines tend to satisfy individually expressed preferences and priorities of an airline employee. A system subscriber enters his or her preferences and priorities, according to preestablished defined categories, into a computer database, preferably inputting the information through key entries on a touch tone telephone. Subsequently, when monthly bid lines are published by the employer airline, the various bid lines are computer analyzed, one by one, against the subscriber's recorded preferences and priorities, evaluating such data as credit hours, layovers, arrivals and departures, trips, days off, etc. The output of the syste is an ordered list of flight numbers, specific to a given subscriber, arranged in order of tendency to satisfy the subscriber's expressed preferences and priorities. This may be a printed record, an electronic transmission or the like. The procedures utilized are readily applicable to so-called open time bidding, as well as to bid swapping. Many of the techniques of the invention are applicable as well to other selection procedures in which selections are based upon pre-established preferences.

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First Claim