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Restaurant directory and marketing system
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Inventors: Visconti, John;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Laneau; Ronald
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Bak-Boychuk; I. Michael
A method useful with a computer network for providing a searchable data base of restaurants which can be accessed by prospective patrons, and once having obtained access the patron can then examine the listing and select the desired restaurant. Upon selection, the prospective patron exchanges with the restaurant data base an interactive information exchange in which the patron specifies the desired reservation date and time and the number of prospective guests. Upon receipt of this information a comparison is made between the seats desired and the number of seats estimated to be available at that time, and if the comparison matches then the requested reservation is confirmed. If there is no match, then an automated arithmetic process computes the next available time and submits that to the patron in the interactive process. In the course of the foregoing computation the process adopts a running average of occupancy intervals which is then used to estimate the next available time. This interval may be based on payment reconciliation, provided by a concurrently running process. Various attention garnering devices may be utilized by each restaaurant to attract the potential patrons. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, it is the general purpose and object of the present invention to provide a system imbedded on a computer network for convenient searching of a restaurant.
Other objects of the invention are to provide a searchable data base on which various restaurant enterprises can advertise.
Further objects of the invention are to provide a searchable restaurant data base coupled with computation sequences for determining seating availability and selection.
Additional objects of the invention are to provide a searchable restaurant data base and reservation system in which the credit card payment record is utilized as a seating index.
Briefly, these and other objects are accomplished within the present invention by way of a computer network, such as that now commonly known as "Internet", to which various personal computers [PCs] owned by consumers are selectively connected and which is also connected to information storing servers and shared computing stations.
In conventional manner the server may be selectively loaded with data describing a restaurant, including such attention inviting information like a unique recipe for which the restaurant may be known, the vitae of the chef, or some video images of the restaurant facility or its setting.
Along with that inscription of data, the restaurant manager may also inscribe its particulars relating to credit card payment and a seating chart.
Typically, such data may be inscribed on one or more shared storage device, often referred to as a server, which may be associated with one or more shared arithmetic processors to perform such arithmetic functions as are entailed in any credit card transaction.
In accordance with the present invention these same shared storage and arithmetic functions may be used for advance seating reservation and even advance food order, thus allowing better management of seating space and kitchen utilization.
Moreover, a record of use, i.
e.
, the length of seating utilization associated with each food order, can be accumulated thereby allowing for a constantly corrected (weighted) data base for an automated seating reservation system
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