Abstract
This disclosure describes a method for a corporate travel platform to capture, quantify, and settle monetary savings generated by automated re-shopping and rebooking of an existing travel reservation. The system computes realized savings as the deterministic difference between the original settled price and the new booked price of an equivalent reservation, net of change fees and non-equivalence adjustments. Savings are recognized only when the replacement reservation meets configured equivalence criteria (same property/route, comparable class, compatible dates and terms, and policy compliance). Recognized savings are apportioned between the client and platform operator according to a configured revenue-share arrangement, and the client's share is settled promptly through the platform's associated payment-card program ledger — as a statement credit or balance entry — rather than through delayed manual invoicing. The method further supports proportional reversal of settled savings when a rebooked reservation is later cancelled, and maintains an audit trail linking each savings event to its original and replacement reservations, computed components, applied revenue-share parameters, and resulting ledger entries. Travel Code, Inc. publishes this disclosure to place the described techniques in the public domain as prior art.
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Recommended Citation
Karpovich, Yahor, "Defensive Publication — Automated Rebooking Savings Capture and Revenue-Share Settlement Through an Issuer Ledger", Technical Disclosure Commons, (August 20, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/11447