Subscription Travel Service Rate Category Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies in making travel arrangements due to the need to search across multiple travel sites for best prices, navigate through numerous checkout screens, and the resource-intensive process of aggregating travel options, leading to wasted time and effort.
Innovation Solution
A subscription-based travel service system that allows users to search and reserve travel services (hotels, rental cars, etc.) with a fixed annual or monthly fee, providing pre-aggregated options and streamlined booking without navigating through multiple checkout screens, using stored personal and payment information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users search across multiple travel sites for best prices, then they can find better travel deals, but they waste significant time and effort navigating multiple sites and checkout processes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple travel service providers and their rate categories into a single unified interface. The system aggregates travel options from multiple providers, consolidates their different rate categories, and presents them together with a single booking interface, eliminating the need for users to navigate multiple separate travel sites while maintaining comprehensive price comparison capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary aggregation and organization of travel services and rate categories before the user arrives. By pre-consolidating travel options from multiple providers and structuring their rate categories in advance, the system readying the data for immediate presentation and booking, thus eliminating the time users would otherwise spend searching and comparing across multiple sites
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system aggregates all travel options from multiple providers, then users get comprehensive choices, but system resources are consumed in processing and presenting all options
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the aggregated travel options by organizing them according to the different rate categories of the travel service providers. Each rate category represents a distinct segment with specific characteristics and pricing structures. This segmentation allows the system to manage and process large volumes of travel options in an organized manner, improving resource efficiency while maintaining comprehensive service availability
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the organizational parameter of travel options from a flat, unstructured list to a hierarchical structure based on rate categories. By transforming the data organization parameter, the system enables more efficient processing, filtering, and presentation of travel options, thereby improving productivity without reducing the versatility of available choices
3Reliability
If users navigate through multiple checkout screens to complete reservations, then they can review and confirm details, but the process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the checkout processes of multiple travel service providers into a single unified booking interface. Instead of requiring users to navigate through separate checkout screens for each provider, the system consolidates all reservation details, pricing information, and confirmation steps into one integrated process, thereby reducing complexity while maintaining reservation accuracy through comprehensive detail review
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a subscription-based travel service that includes one or more processors that perform operations comprising: receiving, by a subscription-based travel service, search criteria comprising a travel period for a user; determining that a subscription of the user with the subscription-based travel service corresponds to a first travel service rate category; identifying, based on the search criteria, a list of travel services associated with the first travel service rate category that are available for consumption during the travel period; presenting the identified list of travel services to the user; and reserving a given travel service of the travel services on the list in response to receiving a selection of the given travel service.