Open Mobile Online Reservation and Ordering Systems
First Claim
1. A fully integrated mobile and online service platform, comprising of mobile and online ordering, reservation and notification systems that can operate either separately, or combined together, in order to suit to the different needs and tastes of each of business owners or end consumers.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a new “mobile and online based ordering and reservation system” by integrating, synchronizing and utilizing the capability of wireless devices, Internet servers, business web sites and service aggregation portals, to automate the mobile and online ordering and reservation processes in real time, and therefore offering a plural of new mobile and online services and applications.
More specifically, the Internet server serves as the host to the service aggregation and as the intermediary device between customers and business. It automatically synchronizes all of the service requests and responses. Therefore, this invention takes full advantage of the flexibility, mobility, availability and convenience of the wireless devices, and the reliability, scalability, the huge processing power of the Internet servers, and the great broadband penetration of the computers into businesses and consumers.
The unique and novel, mobile and online based ordering and reservation platform and system, for such time sensitive services, provides the mobile phone and Internet users and various types of business owners with comprehensive sets of options, including the mobile phones installed with the open source “Android” software platform developed by the “Open Handheld Alliance (OHA), such as the “gPhone” released by “Google”, to deliver the requests and responses automatically and instantly through means of synchronization between mobile and Internet communications. Based on the open source mobile phone platform and the Internet server infrastructure, an intuitive and easy-to-use mobile phone and online based ordering and reservation management system is uniquely defined in the architecture of the current invention to allow both the business owners and end consumers with real time communications for a plural of mobile and online ordering and reservation services.
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16 Claims
- 1. A fully integrated mobile and online service platform, comprising of mobile and online ordering, reservation and notification systems that can operate either separately, or combined together, in order to suit to the different needs and tastes of each of business owners or end consumers.
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15. A fully integrated comprehensive mobile and online service platform, comprising of mobile and online ordering, reservation and notification systems that can offer some or all of the above features described and claimed above, and applied to different business segments other than restaurant industry. It can be used for the other industries that may also touch on the daily life of people, on all activities such as the hair cut reservation, salons and spas reservation, massage reservation, sports facility reservation, public facility or private facility reservation, reservation for students or parents to meet the school teachers for any specific reasons, reservation for going to the bar, attending entertainment events or gatherings, or reservation for a child birthday party at certain places and facilities, and ordering of birthday party gift packages for the party reservations, and etc. The list can go on and is not limited to the ones mentioned above. The key is to utilize the new fully integrated platform to maximize the benefits it brings in to the customers and to the business owners alike.
For many of the activities mentioned above, mobile or online reservation is a preferred choice, and at the same time, many of them requires mobile or online ordering as well to prepare for the events. For example, reservation of the birthday party may means also the need to place advanced mobile or online order of gift cards, gift packages, and some special goody bags for the birthday parties. Our integrated system shall then be ideal to be used by the business owner to put onto their web sites for the convenience of their customers. Additionally, the systems can be applied to different countries with different languages to serve to different populations and special needs. For example, this platform can be fully converted into a Chinese version so that it can serve the Chinese community in China, or the Chinese speaker community in US or in any other countries. It can of course be used in any other languages for any other countries or any other specific ethic communities in certain countries or regions. Additionally or optionally, this system can be implemented in many ways, including but not limited to the use of either fully centralized database systems, or localized distributed database systems, or the combination of centralized database systems (server side) and localized database systems (client side) on the database side. It can be implemented in different types of mobile phones, using either the mobile based web access, or using the open mobile platform based on “ - Android”
platform and installed with our “
mobile ordering, reservation and notification system”
for the interaction between the mobile system and the Internet aggregation portal sites (aggregation servers).Additionally or optionally, this system can also be implemented in many ways, including but not limited to the use of photos, flash video, and real or marketing video clips based on streaming techniques to showcase the environment of the associated business, its history and present status, its environment, its management and people, its current offerings, and its individual items (such as dishes), and even some customer testimonials. Each of the business and its web site listed on the aggregation web sites can be supported via the advanced video streaming technologies to make the mobile and the online service more intuitive, interactive, and more appealing to the customers. Additionally or optionally, this system can be implemented in many ways, including but not limited to the use of web site design technologies specifically suitable for mobile and PDA devices with a smaller screen, to support the mobile and online ordering, catering, and reservation, as well as all other services, for people on the go who like to request the online order/catering/reservation and etc. from their mobile devices and PDA devices.
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16. A fully integrated comprehensive mobile and online order and reservation service platform, comprising of mobile and online ordering, catering, and reservation systems that can offer some or all of the above features described and claimed above, and can be implemented in many ways, including but not limited to the support of customers who may have no access to Internet when they are on the go, but would like to make advanced reservation or ordering as well. In this case, our implementation includes but not limited to the support of use of the advanced open mobile platform based “
- ordering, reservation and notification system”
, or the traditional mobile phone based Instant Messaging by the end customers from a mobile or PDA device. When the customer sends the Instant Messaging to the mobile and online service platform, the centralized server will be able to receive the Instant Message, and then decode the message, and select the request information to the customers to help him/her to decide which mobile or online request or what types of mobile or online request should be sent on behave of him or her. If the information is not sufficient to help the consumer to make the final decision, new instant message will be sent to the customer to ask for more input or clarifications, or sent more requested information to the customer, so he/she can make a decision. Once the customer has decided what he/she needs and confirmed to the mobile or the online service platform, the mobile and the online service platform will then send the mobile or the online request on behave of him to the business owners (or restaurants) to request the mobile or online service, and at the same time, send the instant message back to the customer to copy him/her as well, as the proof of mobile and online request and also as the information for him/her to follow up accordingly.
- ordering, reservation and notification system”
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