Online Booking Method and System

• US 20080140458A1
• Filed: 07/04/2005
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Genbook, Inc. (Booksy Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Genbook, Inc. (Booksy Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Moore, Roderick James
• Application Number:
  US11/571,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20080140458A1
• 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

An online booking method for providing bookings for a plurality of service providers (140, 144, 146) which involves providing a plurality of booking links (130, 131) to a plurality of bookable service provider entries (125, 126, 127) for display on a search engine results interface or a directory listing interface, where the booking tags (133) indicate a booking option and include associated booking links (135). A dedicated service provider booking interface is hosted on at least one booking engine (104) and is accessible through one of the booking links (130, 131) after selecting the booking tag (133). The booking engine (104) receives a booking request from a user initiated by user selection of a booking tag (133) on said search engine results interface or directory listing interface. The booking engine (104) then uses the booking request to access the corresponding booking interface which is populated with service provider specific details for enabling users to make a booking.

Claims

1. An online booking method for providing bookings for a plurality of service providers including:

providing a plurality of bookable service provider entries with a plurality of corresponding booking links for display on a search engine results interface or a directory listing interface, said booking links including associated booking tags indicative of a booking option;

hosting a plurality of dedicated service provider booking interfaces on at least one booking engine, said booking interfaces being accessible via the corresponding booking links by selection of the associated booking tags;

receiving at the booking engine a booking request from a user, said booking request being initiated by user selection of a booking tag on said search engine results interface or directory listing interface; and

using said booking request to access a corresponding booking interface hosted on the at least one booking engine, said booking interface being populated with service provider specific details for enabling users to make a booking.

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