Patent ID: 8805712
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
1. A wireless network hotel room management system for use by a hotel having a plurality of guest rooms for reserving a room, indicating the real time occupancy status of a room, and indicating the real time status of a housekeeping event, said system comprising: a communications network configured to send and receive wireless data signals; a computer in data communication with said communications network having a memory configured to store programming and data, said computer having a processor configured to execute said programming; a guest room unit situated in each guest room, each said guest room unit being in data communication with said communications network; a housekeeping module in data communication with said computer and said communications network; wherein said each guest room unit includes a touch screen that is configured to receive projected absence data as input from a guest in a respective guest room and to communicate said projected absence data to said computer through said communications network; programming in said memory that when executed by said processor receives said projected absence data from a respective guest room unit; programming in said memory that when executed by said processor determines if respective received projected absence data is indicative of a housekeeping request and, if so, communicates a housekeeping order to said housekeeping module; wherein said projected absence data is indicative of said housekeeping request if said projected absence data input from the guest indicates a respective guest is checking out or will be absent from the room for more than a predetermined amount of time other than checking out.