Patent ID: 7194417
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. In a flight firming process for automated firming of flight reservations made by a reserving entity for services which are to be confirmed by payment for said services prior to delivery of the services, which reservations are listed in a central database of reservations, the database being accessed with a computer operated by a computer program having a set of limiting standards to be applied to each reservation determined to be unconfirmed, the reserving entity being informed in an automated manner in accordance with the set of limiting standards of the need to confirm the reservation before expiration of time limitations established by the set of limiting standards, the improvement comprising: coordinating access to the database to acquire data for operations therewith and scheduling said operations; returning the data to the database after operations are performed thereto to a predetermined location within the database, to thereby update the database, all steps being accomplished by the computer program; and, assigning a new reservation to a robot, the robot assigning all or any portion of the limiting standards to the new reservation according to limitations imposed by the standards and issuing a warning message to the reserving entity in the event the reservation is not confirmed.