Patent ID: 7644032
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An adaptive computerized bidding, matching and information exchange method accessible on a telecommunications network for matching hospitality facility data, representing vendors furnishing hotel facilities, meeting room facilities or other hospitality facilities, said hospitality facility data including at least vendor contact data, location data, room quantity data, date available range data, and meeting room data, said hospitality facility data matched with meeting requirement data, representing respective necessities of a plurality of meeting planners for a corresponding plurality of meetings or events, said meeting requirement data including at least meeting planner contact data, facilities requirement data, date range data and price data, said hospitality facility data and said meeting requirement data organized in a data structure accessible via a plurality of client computers coupled to said telecommunications network, said data structure stored in a server also accessible and coupled to said telecommunications network, the bidding, matching and information exchange method comprising: gathering, in said data structure on said server, said meeting requirement data as an inquiry from an inquiring meeting planner via one or more client computers; searching said data structure on said server for hospitality facility data matching the meeting requirement data inquiry and obtaining search results; matching the meeting requirement data and the hospitality facility data by said server; conducting an analysis by said server of one of said meeting requirement data inquiry or said search results based upon a class of meeting planners which includes said inquiring meeting planner; based upon said analysis, one of exchanging meeting requirement data and contact data based upon said search results between said inquiring meeting planner and selected vendors associated with hospitality facility data encompassed in said search results via respective client computers over said telecommunications network from said server.