Processing and Optimizing Travel Insurance Transactions
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Abstract
A method and system are provided for processing communications between travel service providers and travel insurers where travel service providers use different messaging formats. A travel service provider transmits itinerary data to a travel insurer in one messaging format. The travel insurer may then convert the itinerary data into a format compatible with the travel insurer'"'"'s system and determine an optimal policy choice based on the itinerary data. The travel insurer may then transmit this choice to the travel service provider in the travel service provider'"'"'s preferred messaging format, and the travel service provider offers the product to the consumer through the travel service provider'"'"'s interface.
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21. A method for processing transactions involving a travel insurer and a travel service provider, comprising:
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receiving, by a travel insurer computing device, itinerary data in a travel service provider messaging format generated by the travel service provider; converting, by the travel insurer computing device, the itinerary data in the travel service provider messaging format to itinerary data in a travel insurer messaging format based on a mapping of the travel service provider messaging format to the travel insurer messaging format, wherein the mapping is one of a plurality of mappings between messaging formats associated with travel service providers and the travel insurer messaging format; determining, by the travel insurer computing device, a travel insurance policy based on the itinerary data in the travel insurer messaging format; and transmitting, by the travel insurer computing device, information pertaining to the determined travel insurance policy to a customer computing device for presentation to a customer of the travel service provider. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, part of a travel insurer computing system, having processor-executable instructions stored thereon for processing transactions involving a travel insurer and a travel service provider, the processor-executable instructions including instructions for:
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receiving itinerary data in a travel service provider messaging format generated by the travel service provider; converting the itinerary data in the travel service provider messaging format to itinerary data in a travel insurer messaging format based on a mapping of the travel service provider messaging format to the travel insurer messaging format, wherein the mapping is one of a plurality of mappings between messaging formats associated with travel service providers and the travel insurer messaging format; determining a travel insurance policy based on the itinerary data in the travel insurer messaging format; and transmitting information pertaining to the determined travel insurance policy to a customer computing device for presentation to a customer of the travel service provider. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A travel insurer computing system for processing transactions involving a travel insurer and a travel service provider, comprising:
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a travel insurer server, configured to; receive itinerary data in a travel service provider messaging format generated by the travel service provider; convert the itinerary data in the travel service provider messaging format to itinerary data in a travel insurer messaging format based on a mapping of the travel service provider messaging format to the travel insurer messaging format, wherein the mapping is one of a plurality of mappings between messaging formats associated with travel service providers and the travel insurer messaging format; determine a travel insurance policy based on the itinerary data in the travel insurer messaging format; and transmit information pertaining to the determined travel insurance policy to a customer computing device for presentation to a customer of the travel service provider; and a database, configured to store the plurality of mappings between messaging formats associated with travel service providers and the travel insurer messaging format. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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