Patent ID: 7584110

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of making a hotel reservation comprising: receiving a reservation request from a client by a booking source; transmitting, by the booking source, a price blind reservation request to a third party web service computer, wherein the web service computer is a price agnostic intermediary and wherein a price of a reservation is not specified in the reservation request and is not available to the third party price agnostic web service computer; processing the price blind reservation request, by the third party price agnostic web service computer, wherein the processing comprises: checking credentials of the booking source against a credentials table of the intermediary web service computer database, converting parameters of the reservation request from a format of the booking source to a format of the hotel using a translation table of the third party web service computer database, wherein the parameters comprise hotel room description, validating and normalizing the reservation request based on standard booking parameters reflecting a common hotel room type, generating a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) for the reservation request and transmitting the GUID to the booking source, storing the reservation request in the intermediary web service computer database, placing the reservation request in a queue for processing, and responding to the booking source; forwarding the reservation request to the hotel from the third party web service computer; receiving, by the third party web service computer, a confirmation from the hotel; receiving, by the third party web service computer, polling inquiries from the booking source; and transmitting, by the third party web service computer, the confirmation to the booking source, wherein the reservation request is based on allocation parameters to the booking source from the hotel.