Patent ID: 7516148
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: G06Q,G07C,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for assigning and managing patron reservations to one or more of a plurality of attractions, the system comprising: a plurality of attraction computers, each attraction computer associated with at least one attraction and configured to maintain status information about its corresponding attraction; a wireless data device configured to receive a user selection for a reservation request, the reservation request specifying a particular attraction and including one or more criteria for the requested reservation, the wireless data device further configured to communicate the reservation request over a wireless network; and a host computer configured to receive reservation requests from the wireless data device, and to communicate with the attraction computers to obtain status information about the attractions, wherein, responsive to a reservation request from the wireless data device, the host computer is configured to determine a reservation for the user based at least in part on the criteria for the requested reservation and the status information about the attraction specified in the reservation request.