Solving a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) by selecting a set of locations to visit, selecting a starting point and an ending point from the set of locations, applying a search method to the set of locations, and providing a route as a solution to the TSP, where the search method is a combinatoric approach...http://www.google.de/patents/US6904421?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6904421 - Methods for solving the traveling salesman problem