Banquet hall reservation management system

• US 5,909,668 A
• Filed: 08/28/1996
• Issued: 06/01/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Fukuma, Mikio
• Primary Examiner(s): MacDonald, Allen R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Myhre, James W.
• Application Number:
  US08/705,855
• Time in Patent Office: 1,007 Days
• Field of Search: 705/5, 705/6, 705/7, 705/8, 705/15
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants

Abstract

The present invention relates to providing a banquet hall reservation management system for managing reservation and vacancy status of divisible banquet halls even when a partition pattern of a banquet hall is changed without changing the application program. Hence, the work load of the banquet hall provider is reduced, and the quality of service increased. The banquet hall reservation management system includes a management table where conflicting areas due to using a banquet area are registered, a management information input means to input names of new banquet areas and their conflicting areas in the event of changing partition pattern, and a management table generating means that creates a new management table based on the management information obtained by the management information input means.

Claims

1. A computerized banquet hall reservation management system, managing reservation of banquet halls capable of being partitioned into a plurality of areas, one area or a combination of the areas being used as one banquet area, said banquet hall reservation management system comprising:

a management information input screen displaying unit receiving reservation information;

a management table registering conflicting areas for each banquet area, said conflicting areas unable to be used while a banquet area is used;

a reservation management table registering the reservation information for each banquet area;

vacancy determination means for determining whether an arbitrary banquet area is unreserved on an elected date by referring to said reservation management table;

conflicting area detecting means for detecting, if said vacancy determination means determines that the arbitrary banquet area is unreserved, conflicting areas which are unable to be used while said arbitrary banquet area is used by referring to said management table;

reservation means for writing reservation information indicating that said arbitrary banquet area and said conflicting areas will be used on the elected date into said reservation management table;

a reservation information input screen notifying a user and displaying a reservation number when the registration of a reservation is completed; and

reservation number transmitting means for transmitting the reservation number displayed by the reservation information input screen to a customer.

2. A banquet hall reservation management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said reservation management table comprising a plural of reservation management tables per date.

3. A banquet hall reservation management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

management information input means for inputting, when partition pattern of the banquet hall is changed, information concerning new banquet areas and conflicting areas which are unable to be used while said new banquet area is used; and

management table generating means for generating a new management table according to the information inputted by the management information input means.

4. A banquet hall reservation management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said reservation management table registers purpose identification information which identifies a purpose of using the arbitrary banquet area as reservation information of the arbitrary banquet area, and the number of banquet areas which are already reserved and inhibit the conflicting area from being used while the banquet areas are used as reservation information of the each conflicting area.

5. A banquet hall reservation management system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said reservation means generates, if said reservation management table has no reservation management table corresponding to said elected date, a new reservation management table, and writes purpose identification information which identifies a purpose of using the arbitrary banquet area as reservation information of said arbitrary banquet area and initial value "1" as the reservation information of said conflicting areas.

6. A banquet hall reservation management system as claimed in claim 4, wherein when a reservation for a banquet area is canceled,

said reservation means detects conflicting areas of the banquet area by refering to said management table, and erases the purpose identification information of said banquet area from said reservation management table and decrement the reservation information of said conflicting areas by one.

7. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program to be executed by a computer for a banquet hall reservation management system managing reservation of banquet halls capable of being partitioned into a plurality of areas, one area or a combination of the areas being used as one banquet area, said computer program to perform the functions of:

registering in a reservation table conflicting areas for each banquet area, said conflicting areas unable to be used while a banquet area is used;

receiving reservation information for a banquet area;

registering in a reservation management table the reservation information for each banquet area;

determining whether an arbitrary banquet area is unreserved on an elected date by referring to said reservation management table;

detecting, if said arbitrary banquet area is unreserved, conflicting areas which are unable to be used while said arbitrary banquet area is used by referring to said management table; and

writing reservation information indicating that said arbitrary banquet area and said conflicting areas will be used on the elected date into said reservation management table.

8. A computerized banquet hall reservation management system, managing reservation of banquet halls configured for being partitioned into a plurality of areas, one area or a combination of the areas being used as one banquet area, said banquet hall reservation management system comprising:

a management information input server displaying unit receiving reservation information;

a management table registering conflicting areas for each banquet area, said conflicting areas unusable used while a banquet area is used;

a reservation management table registering reservation information for each banquet area;

vacancy determination means for determining whether an arbitrary banquet area is unreserved on an elected date by referring to said reservation management table;

conflicting area detecting means for detecting, if said vacancy determination means determines that the arbitrary banquet area is unreserved, conflicting areas which are unable to be used while said arbitrary banquet area is used by referring to said management table;

reservation means for writing reservation information indicating that said arbitrary banquet area and said conflicting areas will be used on the elected date into said reservation management table;

a reservation input screen notifying a user and displaying a reservation number when the registration of a reservation is completed; and

reservation number transmitting means for transmitting the reservation number displayed by the reservation information input screen to a customer.