Reservation method offering an alternative event

• US 20060287898A1
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Murashita, Kimitaka, Suzuki, Shoji, Iwata, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/480,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20060287898A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events

Abstract

The present invention relates to a reservation server which comprises a retaining section for retaining store/facility information including a reservation-needed service and a reservation situation, a network terminal for outputting alternative event substituting for the service, a receiving section for receiving a desired service, a reservation managing section for selectively reading out the store/facility information and the alternative event, and a transmitting section for transmitting the information and event. Accordingly, a service provider can notify a user of a service and reservation situation of a store near the user or the start/end time of the service, and the time to be taken for the service and can suggest an alternative event in a time zone convenient to the user.

Claims

1-31. -31. (canceled)

32. A reservation server, comprising:

a retaining section for retaining store information which includes the contents of services provided by a store and reservation information of the services; and

a transmitting section for transmitting, through a radio network, the store information retained in said retaining section to a user terminal which is present in a specified area (hereinafter will be called the first specified area) whose base point is the reservation server,

said transmitting section unilaterally transmitting the store information as one-way information to the user terminal, irrespective of the presence or absence of access from the user terminal.

33. A reservation server as set forth in claim 33, comprising:

a receiving section for receiving, from said user terminal through the radio network, user-desiring service which is desired by a user of the user terminal; and

a reservation managing section which updates the store information retained in said retaining section based on the user-desiring service received by said receiving section, thereby accepting a reservation from the user.

34. A reservation server as set forth in claim 33, wherein said transmitting section transmits the store information to the user terminal within the first specified area and a user terminal which is present within a second specified area whose base point is the user terminal present within the first specified area.

35. A reservation system, comprising:

a user terminal which transceives data; and

a reservation server which is connected to the user terminal through a radio network, said reservation server including;

a retaining section for retaining store information including the contents of services provided by a store for which said reservation server is provided;

a transmitting section for transmitting, through a radio network, the store information retained in said retaining section to a user terminal which is present in a specified area whose base point is the reservation server,

wherein said transmitting section unilaterally transmits the store information as one-way information to the user terminal, irrespective of the presence or absence of accessing from the user terminal,

said user terminal including;

a receiving section for receiving the store information transmitted from said transmitting section of said reservation server; and

a displaying section for showing the store information received by said receiving section.

36. A method of making a reservation, comprising:

receiving a reservation-needed request for a desired event; and

;

outputting alternative event information for an event substituting for said desired event.