Patent ID: 7386469

Claim:
A method for accepting a transaction reservation, comprising: electronically presenting information on discount services defined for each interval within a predetermined time period, where each interval reflects temporarily changing conditions of the discount services to a plurality of customers and the discount services are determined based on a rate of reservation which is obtained by dividing a reservation number by a number representing a difference between a target number of persons and a number of persons without reservations, wherein said number of persons without reservations is calculated by a product of a prospective number of persons and coefficients defined for factors reducing a transaction including days of a week, and weather conditions; electronically accepting information on the transaction reservation of discount services at a selected time interval by a customer; and performing a transaction according to the reserved discount services, when the visiting time of a customer to a shop, or the finish time of the transaction is included in the time interval in association with said accepted information of the transaction reservation.