Patent ID: 7513337

Claim:
Method for controlling an elevator system, said elevator system comprising: an elevator group ( 311 ) comprising a plurality of elevator cars ( 31 ), a destination call device ( 34 ) for reserving an elevator car ( 31 ) for use by passengers, a control system ( 33 ) of the elevator group ( 311 ) for controlling the elevator cars ( 31 ), said control system being responsive to the aforesaid destination call device ( 34 ), characterized in that the method comprises the steps of: entering ( 41 ) a destination floor call via a destination call device ( 34 ), storing the call data ( 42 ) of the destination floor call, allocating ( 43 ) an elevator car for the user on the basis of the landing call data of the destination floor call, the landing call comprising information indicating the user's starting floor and traveling direction, and transmitting the destination floor of the stored call data as a car call to the allocated elevator car only as it is arriving at the landing ( 44 ).