Patent ID: 7660727

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for interactively selecting one or more rooms at a venue by an end user over a wide area network, the method comprising: transmitting information relating to a plurality of available individual rooms at the venue to an application running on a general purpose computer on the wide area network for display to the end user; providing web data to the computer, the web data comprising a graphical user interface that comprises an interactive map representing information relating to available individual rooms at the venue, the web data adapted to provide additional current available room information on the one or more available individual rooms in response to the end user placing a mouse indicator over the graphical user interface, wherein the mouse over causes the computer to display the additional current available room information indicating rooms that have not been previously taken; receiving from the end user a selection of one or more selected rooms, wherein the selection is based on a mouse click; and accepting over the wide area network from the end user payment information for the one or more selected rooms.