Patent ID: 11943302
Assignee: UNIVERSAL AIR TRAVEL PLAN, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. An intermediary transaction processing server (ITPS) comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform processes comprising:
receiving, via a network, a copy of a third-party data batch hand-off-tape (HOT) file, the batch HOT file containing a plurality of passenger name records (PNRs), each passenger name record (PNR) comprising travel itinerary information and travel payment information;
identifying collected customer payment transaction data from the travel payment information from the received copy of the batch HOT file;
processing the batch HOT file such that a computing system account benefiting an airline is enabled to collect payment funding from a settlement service provider (SSP) computing system for transactions contained in the batch file without an airline computing system having been configured to make a request instruction seeking collected customer payment funding from the SSP computing system for travel itineraries from the batch HOT file, and
sending identified collected customer payment cash transaction data from the received copy of the batch HOT file to a settlement service provider (SSP) gateway, the gateway providing the collected customer payment transaction data elements to the SSP computing system, the SSP computing system using the received identified collected customer payment transaction data elements to provide collected customer payment funding to a computing system account benefiting an airline without an airline computing system having been configured to make a request instruction to receive collected customer payment funding from the SSP computing system for travel itineraries from the batch HOT file.