RESERVATION CHANGING SYSTEM
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Abstract
A reservation changing system provides diverse services. A memory card obtains, via a mobile telephone, a distance from a present location to a boarding station for a train for which a reservation has been made, and judges whether to perform a train reservation change search depending on the relationship between the obtained distance and a time remaining until a departure time of the train. When it is judged that a reservation change search is to be performed, the memory card obtains an expected arrival time at the station from a timetable server apparatus, compares the obtained expected arrival time with the departure time, and when a time margin between the two times is insufficient, the memory card instructs a reservation center apparatus, via the mobile telephone, to change the reservation, and receives and stores reservation information.
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30 Claims
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1-24. -24. (canceled)
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25. A portable IC card for managing reservation information pertaining to a reservation for a transport to be boarded at a transfer location, the IC card comprising:
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a storage unit that stores therein an inter-boarding-location timetable indicating a time required for traveling from a nearest boarding location to a transfer location; an obtaining unit operable to obtain an expected boarding arrival time of a user at the nearest boarding location; a calculation unit operable to calculate an expected transfer arrival time of the user at the transfer location by (i) extracting, from the inter-boarding-location timetable, a time required to travel from the nearest boarding location to the transfer location and (ii) adding the expected boarding arrival time at the nearest boarding location to the time extracted from the inter-boarding-location timetable; and a reservation management unit that stores therein the reservation information including an expected departure time of the transport from the transfer location, wherein when the expected transfer arrival time at the transfer location is later than the expected departure time from the transfer location, in place of the reservation, a request is made for a new reservation for another transport that is to depart from the transfer location after the expected transfer arrival time. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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