Patent ID: 6041305
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method of managing reservations of various items of commerce, the various items of commerce including at least one of goods and services, in which the reservations are placed by individuals from a reserving party side for acceptance from a providing party side by at least one provider of said various items of commerce, the method comprising the steps of:setting and registering individual identification means pertinent to individual data of an unspecified number of individuals of the general public;receiving reservation data for particular ones of the various items of commerce communicated by a particular one of said individuals for whom the individual identification means have already been set and registered;setting a reservation code to the reservation data representative of each of the particular ones of the various items of commerce reserved and notifying said particular one of said individuals that said reservation code has been set;receiving modifying information data input from one of said reserving party side and said performing party side indicating a desired revision of the reservation data to which the reservation code has been set, the desired revision including one of change and cancellation,sending a notification indicating receipt of the modifying information data from one of the reserving party side and the performing party side prior to performing the desired revision of the reservation data, said notification being sent to a remaining one of the reserving party side and the performing party side affected by said desired revision;performing the desired revision of reservation data after confirmation of said modifying information data, and on condition of receipt of modifying information acknowledgement data inputted from said remaining one of the reserving party side and the performing party side; andsending revised reservation data to notify said remaining one of said reserving party side and said performing party side to enable mutual performance by said reserving party side and said performing party side of the items of commerce represented by the revised reservation data.