Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Reservation – check-in – or booking display for reserved space
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-05
2005-04-05
Laneau, Ronald (Department: 3627)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reservation, check-in, or booking display for reserved space
C705S015000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06876973
ABSTRACT:
A method useful with a computer network for providing a searchable data base of restaurants which can be accessed by prospective patrons, and once having obtained access the patron can then examine the listing and select the desired restaurant. Upon selection, the prospective patron exchanges with the restaurant data base an interactive information exchange in which the patron specifies the desired reservation date and time and the number of prospective guests. Upon receipt of this information a comparison is made between the seats desired and the number of seats estimated to be available at that time, and if the comparison matches then the requested reservation is confirmed. If there is no match, then an automated arithmetic process computes the next available time and submits that to the patron in the interactive process. In the course of the foregoing computation the process adopts a running average of occupancy intervals which is then used to estimate the next available time. This interval may be based on payment reconciliation, provided by a concurrently running process. Various attention garnering devices may be utilized by each restaaurant to attract the potential patrons.
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Bak-Boychuk I. Michael
Laneau Ronald
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