Unified Travel Platform Backend Server Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Travelers face inconvenience in managing multiple service providers and accounts for various aspects of their journey, leading to a fragmented travel experience due to the need to use different services and applications for each leg of their trip.
Innovation Solution
A backend processing server communicates with travel service providers to offer travel service options to traveler mobile devices, storing account profiles and transaction rules, allowing for streamlined service provision without requiring travelers to manage multiple accounts or applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If travelers use multiple service providers and applications for each leg of their trip, then service coverage and options are improved, but traveler convenience and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple service providers and applications into a single unified travel platform. The system integrates ground transportation, flight, hotel, and dining services from multiple providers into one interface, allowing travelers to access all services through a single application rather than managing multiple separate applications and accounts.
Solution Approach 2:
The travel platform is designed as a universal system that performs multiple functions across different travel services. A single application provides ground transportation booking, flight reservations, hotel check-in, and dining arrangements, making the system multi-functional and eliminating the need for travelers to use specialized applications for each service type.
2Adaptability or versatility
If travelers manage multiple accounts and credentials for different service providers, then access to various services is improved, but time consumption and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal account management system where a single traveler account provides access to all travel services including ground transportation, flights, hotels, and dining. This eliminates the need for travelers to create and manage separate accounts and credentials for each service provider, significantly reducing time consumption and operational complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If travelers download and manage multiple application programs on their device, then service availability is improved, but device storage requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple service provider applications into a single unified application that travelers download once on their mobile device. This single application provides access to ground transportation, flight, hotel, and dining services, eliminating the need to download and manage multiple separate applications and reducing device storage requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified application is designed as a multi-functional platform that delivers multiple travel services through a single interface. This universal application replaces the need for multiple specialized applications, simplifying the system architecture on the traveler's device while maintaining comprehensive service availability.
4Reliability
If service providers maintain separate booking and management systems, then service specialization is improved, but integration complexity and coordination difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central backend server as an intermediary that connects multiple service providers while maintaining their operational independence. The backend server acts as a mediator that receives requests from the unified application, routes them to appropriate service providers, and coordinates their responses, thereby integrating multiple specialized systems without requiring the service providers to change their core operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system architecture is segmented into distinct components: the unified traveler application, the central backend server, and individual service provider systems. This segmentation allows each service provider to maintain their specialized booking and management systems independently while still being integrated into the overall platform through the backend server, reducing integration complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for providing travel service options to a traveler mobile device includes: storing, account profiles, each including data related to a transaction account including an account identifier and contact information; storing transaction rules, each associated with a travel service option and including a required action; receiving a data message including a specific account identifier, travel reservation, and data fields; identifying, a specific account profile that includes the specific account identifier; identifying a program application based on the specific account profile and travel reservation; processing a transaction rule for the program application based on data included in the data fields; and performing the required action included in the identified transaction rule, wherein the required action includes transmitting at least one travel service option associated with the program application.