Patent ID: 7685058
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computerized system for matching hospitality facility data, representing vendors furnishing hotel facilities, meeting room facilities or other hospitality facilities, with requirement data, representing respective necessities of a plurality of meeting planners for a corresponding plurality of meetings or events, the computerized system comprising: means for storing and maintaining said hospitality facility data and said requirement data in a database on said at least one server, said hospitality facility data at least including vendor contact data, room quantity data and amenity data; means for gathering requirement offer data and planner contact data from said plurality of meeting planners, the gathered requirement offer data including facilities requirements data; means for matching requirement offer data with said hospitality facility data; means for presenting blinded requirement offer data, without revealing the identity of the corresponding meeting planner who supplied said requirement offer data, to vendors associated with said hospitality facility data which match said facilities requirements data; means for gathering specific hospitality facility data from a group of responding vendors relative to said blinded requirement offer data; means for presenting, to said corresponding meeting planner who supplied said requirement offer data, blinded specific hospitality facility data responsive to said facilities requirements data; means for permitting said corresponding meeting planner to select blinded specific hospitality facility data representing a predetermined number of vendors; means for exchanging contact data between said predetermined number of vendors and said corresponding meeting planner supplying said requirement offer data; means for determining if said corresponding meeting planner cannot fulfill necessities corresponding to said requirement offer data, and, in such event, reactivating said means for permitting the selection of said vendors while excluding at least one of said predetermined number of vendors; means for gathering facilities offer data from at least one vendor offeror to supply hospitality facilities, and for storing said facilities offer data in said database, said facilities offer data including at least a hospitality facility feature and offer price data; means for presenting blinded facilities offer data to one or more inquiring meeting planners; means for gathering specific facilities requirement data from a responsive plurality of meeting planners relative to said facilities offer data; means for presenting, to said vendor offeror, blinded specific requirement data responsive to said facilities offer data; means for permitting said vendor offeror to select blinded specific requirement data representing a further predetermined number of said responsive meeting planners, means for exchanging contact data between said further predetermined number of said responsive meeting planners and vendor offeror; and, means for determining if said vendor offeror cannot fulfill the corresponding offer to supply hospitality facilities, and, in such event, reactivating said means for presenting said blinded facilities offer data step while excluding at least one of said further predetermined number of responsive meeting planners.