Patent ID: 11962642
Assignee: SWITCH TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A computer-implemented system for a loyalty switch architecture embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the loyalty switch architecture comprising:
a loyalty switch;
a plurality of loyalty hosts connected to the loyalty switch;
a client computing resource configured to connect and send a messages and transaction messages to loyalty host;
wherein the loyalty switch is configured to:
accept a connection from any number of client computing resources;
receive one or more messages and/or transaction messages from the client computing resource;
if connections with one or more loyalty hosts are nonexistent for the client computing resource, connect to one or more loyalty hosts using a plurality of configurable connection rules and a content of the received message;
route the transaction message to one or more loyalty hosts, in an applicable format, according to routing information or a plurality of configurable routing rules; if received message contains aggregated rewards previously provided by two or more loyalty hosts, rewards will be split as individually provided by each loyalty hosts prior to a message being sent to each loyalty host;
receive one or more responses from the one or more loyalty hosts;
aggregate a plurality of rewards, if present in the responses, from each of the one or more loyalty hosts; if reward aggregation removes information of the loyalty host reward origin, aggregation details are preserved by the one or more loyalty hosts;
send an aggregated response comprising one or more rewards to the client computing resource; and
close the connection with the client computing resource either upon determining that all host connections for the client computing resource do not exist or upon receiving an indication that the client computing resource closed the connection.