Method for auditing the value of a partial ticket change transaction
AssigneeAmadeus S.A.S.
InventorsGuillaume MORTAGNE, Christophe ANGELINI, Norbert LEON
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Abstract
The invention is for auditing the value of a change for at least one non used portion of an interline ticket in a networked travel reservation system including programmed processor performing receiving a request for a change for at least a non-used portion of an interline ticket; calculating the prorated amounts for the original itinerary (Refund) and both the original and new itineraries (Exchange); authorizing the change upon the validating airline ticket's balance being equal or greater than a predefined threshold; and triggering an event upon the validating airline ticket's balance being less than a predefined threshold.
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A method for auditing the value of a partial ticket change transaction for an interline ticket issued for an itinerary in a networked travel reservation system including programmed processor performing the steps of the method, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for a partial ticket change for at least one non-used portion of an interline ticket;
- calculating a prorated amount for all the portions of the original itinerary;
- upon the request being a refund setting a partial ticket change value as stated refund value for at least one non-used portion of the itinerary and calculating a validating carrier ticket's balance as one of a difference between the prorated amount and the partial ticket change value;
- upon the request being an exchange setting the partial ticket change value as the prorate amount for the new itinerary and calculating the validating carrier ticket's balance as a difference between the partial ticket change value and the prorated amount for an exchange;
- authorizing the partial ticket change transaction upon the validating carriers ticket's balance being equal or greater than a predefined threshold;
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- triggering an event upon the validating carriers ticket's balance being less than a predefined threshold.
A system for auditing a request for change for an interline ticket, comprising:
- a requesting computer comprising a processor programmed to issue, change or cancel at least one portion of the interline ticket;
- a validating carrier computer comprising a processor programmed to audit the value of the request for the change for at least one non-used portion of the interline ticket;
- a unit of the requesting computer requesting a partial change of a portion of the interline ticket by transmitting the request to the validating carrier computer;
- a unit of the validating carrier computer receiving the request for a partial change from the requesting computer, the request to change at least one non-used portion of the interline ticket;
- a unit of the validating carrier computer calculating the prorated amount for the itinerary;
- a unit of the validating carrier computer determining a partial ticket change value;
- a unit of the validating carrier computer calculates a validating carrier ticket's balance as one of a difference between the prorated amount and the partial ticket change value for a refund and a difference between the partial ticket change value and the prorated amount for an exchange;
- a unit of the validating carrier computer approving the issuing of the change by the agent computer upon a validating carrier ticket's balance being equal or greater than a predefined threshold;
- a unit of the agent computer issuing the change upon the validating carrier computer approving the change;
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- a unit of the validating carrier computer triggering an event upon the difference between validating carriers ticket's balance being less than a predefined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.