Patent ID: 8856117
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for providing availability information, comprising: one or more web servers configured to receive a user inquiry regarding availability of one or more inventory items associated with one or more location servers, wherein the availability of one or more inventory items comprises availability of one or more restaurant tables; and a yes/no change in inventory server configured to store a material change in inventory information regarding at least a subset of the one or more inventory items associated with at least a subset of the one or more location servers, wherein the yes/no change in inventory server is configured to only provide the one or more web servers access to the material change in inventory information, and wherein the material change in inventory information is updated only when there is a material change of availability of the one or more inventory items associated with the one or more location servers, and wherein the material change in inventory information comprises ‘yes/no’ status of a table availability for a specified table capacity for a specified time at a restaurant; the one or more location servers, wherein one of the one or more location servers receives a request to reserve one of the one or more inventory items based at least in part on the material change in inventory information and provides an indication that the one of the one or more inventory items has been reserved, and wherein each location server of the one or more location servers determines whether a message has been sent to the yes/no change server within a predetermined time period and in the event that the message has not been sent within the predetermined time period, a heartbeat message is sent to the yes/no change server.