Hotel managing system and managing method thereof

• US 20070067814A1
• Filed: 08/23/2005
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aquila Multimedia Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Aquila Multimedia Company Limited
• Inventors: Wu, Tien-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US11/208,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20070067814A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/98
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2143 located in a single building, e.g. hotel, hospital or museum arrangements specially adapted for plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63; adaptations for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution in television systems H04N7/106
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2225 Local VOD servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2542 for selling goods, e.g. TV shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2543 Billing , e.g. for subscription services payment schemes, architectures or protocols G06Q20/00; e-commerce G06Q30/00; arrangements for billing for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47211 for requesting pay-per-view content payment schemes payment architectures or payment protocols G06Q20/00, G07F
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4825 using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A hotel managing system and a managing method thereof are disclosed. The managing system is applied for plural remote stations connected with each other via a network. The method includes steps of (a) issuing a request from one of the remote stations for initiating a transaction;(b) producing a packet consisted of one or more messages each having a general control information, a guest status information, a PAY-TV information, a guest messaging information, a guest folio information or a housekeeping information (c)transmitting the packet from the remote station to other remote station; (d)receiving the packet by the other remote station and issuing a related response; (e)transmitting the related response from the other remote station back to the remote station; and (f)completing the transaction, thereby providing several functions.

Claims

1. A managing method of plural stations connected with each other via a network, comprising steps of:

(a) issuing a request from a first one of the plural stations for initiating a transaction;

(b) producing a packet having a field for transaction identification and consisted of a message set selected from a group of a general control information, a guest status information, a PAY-TV information, a guest messaging information, a guest folio information, a housekeeping information and a mix thereof;

(c) transmitting the packet from the first station to a second one of the plural station;

(d) receiving the packet by the second station and issuing a related response;

(e) transmitting the related response from the second station back to the first station; and

(f) completing the transaction.

2. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein the packet comprises a 8-bits ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) character.

3. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein the step (c) is an asynchronous transmitting at a speed of 9600 bits per second.

4. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein the packet comprises a start character (ASCII 02), a text character, an End-of-Text (ETX) character (ASCII 03), and a logical redundancy check (LRC) character.

5. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein the related response is an ASCII character consisted of a acknowledge (ACK) character (ASCII 08) and a negative acknowledge (NAK) character (ASCII 15) for indicating success in the transaction while the first station receives the ACK character by 2 second after the packet has been transmitted, and indicating failure in the transaction while the first station receives the NAK character or free of the related response by 2 second after the packet has been transmitted.

6. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein the first station transmits the packet via a transaction layer in at most 3 times for achieving the transaction of the packet, and the transaction layer receives an error message to terminate and achieve the transaction of the packet while the first station receives 3 NAK character or free of the related response.

7. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein plural remote stations comprises at least a host having a property management system (PMS) and a remote station having an aquila advanced television system (AATS), and the PMS and the AATS comprise unique 4-byte transaction identifiers respectively in a form of “

Sxxx” and

“

Hxxx”

for identifying of the transaction, wherein “

x”

is a numeral ASCII character.

8. The managing method according to claim 7, wherein the general control information is composed of an initialization information of the plural stations, a coordinating information of database, a connecting information, a transmitting identification information and an error reporting information for controlling messages of a communication link.

9. The managing method according to claim 7, wherein the guest status information is composed of a check-in information, a check-out information, and a customer information update transmitted via the PMS and the ATTS.

10. The managing method according to claim 7, wherein the PAY-TV information is composed of a charge-update information transmitted from the AATS to the PMS.

11. The managing method according to claim 7, wherein the guest messaging information is composed of a receiver and caller information, an illustration information of a message, and a content information of a message.

12. The managing method according to claim 7, wherein the housekeeping information is composed of the latest housekeeping information transmitted from the ATTS to the PMS.

13. The managing method according to claim 7, wherein the step (a) of issuing the request from the first station is executed via an input device of the host while the first station is the host, and via plural icons of a graphical user interface in the remote station while the first station is the remote station, wherein the plural icons are operated by a remote control panel.

14. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein the message set of the packet comprises a transaction identifier, a serial number, an instruction, and a related information of the instruction, the serial number is a 4-bits field and increased gradually in the transaction, and the packet has an initialized serial number “

0000” and

an end serial number “

9999”

.

15. The managing method according to claim 1, wherein the request and the related response have an identical transaction identifier.

16. A managing system for a hotel comprising:

plural stations;

a network connected with the plural stations; and

a packet transmitted among the plural stations via the network, having a field for transaction identification and consisted of a message set selected from a group of a general control information, a guest status information, a PAY-TV information, a guest messaging information, a guest folio information, a housekeeping information and a mix thereof.

17. The managing system according to claim 16, wherein each one of the plural stations further comprises a RS-232 serial port for connecting with each other via the network, and the plural stations comprises a host having a property management system (PMS) and a remote station having an aquila advanced television system (AATS).

18. The managing system according to claim 17, wherein the remote station further comprises a graphical user interface with plural icons for facilitating the managing system to be operated via a remote control panel.

19. The managing system according to claim 16, wherein the packet comprises a start character (ASCII 02), a text character, an End-of-Text (ETX) character (ASCII 03), and a logical redundancy check (LRC) character.

20. The managing system according to claim 16, wherein the message set of the packet comprises a transaction identifier being identical in one packet, a serial number, an instruction, and a related information of the instruction, all messages in one packet have the same transaction identifier, and the serial number is a 4-bits field.