Patent ID: 7797176

Claim:
A reservation processing system comprising: a reservation terminal for accepting and transmitting reservation information on a product purchase reservation from reservation information input by a first reservation seeker; and a reservation server for conducting reservation acceptance processing based on the reservation seeker-input reservation information received from the reservation terminal, wherein the reservation terminal is configured to accept and transmit to the reservation server the first reservation seeker-input reservation information containing a plurality of reservation alternatives designating products desired to be reserved and a reservation fixing time that designates a time limit for fixing the reservation, the reservation alternatives including a highest priority reservation alternative and a lowest priority reservation alternative, and at least one priority reservation alternative between the highest priority reservation alternative and the lowest priority reservation alternative, and wherein the reservation server has a reservation allocation function to, based on the first reservation seeker-input reservation information received from the reservation terminal, allocate the highest priority reservation alternative as a provisional reservation that is a tentative reservation, allocate the lowest priority reservation alternative and the at least one priority reservation alternative between the highest priority reservation alternative and the lowest priority reservation alternative as backup reservations that are auxiliary tentative reservations, and when later-arriving reservation information from a second reservation seeker is received up to the reservation fixing time and meets a predetermined condition, the reservation server responds to the receiving of the later-arriving reservation information by allocating the provisional reservation as a reservation with respect to the later-arriving reservation information and changing one of the backup reservations to the provisional reservation.