Patent ID: 8760281

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving travel data from a plurality of data sources; identifying an alert data type from the travel data, wherein identifying the alert data type comprises determining whether the alert data type is associated with an in-band alert or an out-of-band alert, wherein the out-of-band alert is based on a comparison to historical travel data; generating, by a processing device, an alert for the alert data type based on a primary alert condition, the alert to provide a notification that the travel data will affect a travel property; determining a priority of the alert; and issuing the alert when alerts matching the priority of the alert are authorized by system settings, wherein the system settings indicate that when the alert data type is associated with the in-band alert, to issue the alert during a runtime and when the alert data type is associated with the out-of-band alert, to issue the alert at the end of a day during which the travel data was received.