Patent ID: 7016857

Claim:
Golf tee-time reservation apparatus for implementing seamless real time access concurrently to a plurality of disparate individual golf course reservation systems situated at different locations, at least some of which use different protocols, said apparatus comprising: a plurality of user input modules distributed throughout a wide geographic area including at sites remote from one another, each user input module having an interface capable of sending one or more tee-time requests concurrently to said plurality of disparate individual gold course reservation system; and an interface module having a data link with each of said plurality of user input modules for concurrently receiving one or more tee-time requests to said plurality of disparate individual golf course reservation systems as real time transactions, said interface module having a data link connection with each of said plurality of disparate individual golf course reservation systems and being arranged to interface with each different protocol of said plurality of disparate individual golf course reservation systems to effect acceptance of one or more tee-time requests at the plurality of disparate individual golf course reservation systems to which said one or more tee-time requests are directed, and said interface module being arranged to concurrently process one or more tee-time requests sent from a single user input module to said plurality of disparate individual golf course reservation systems.