Patent ID: 7766129

Claim:
A method for controlling an elevator system for a building having a plurality of floors served by the elevator and having floors with defined intensive departing traffic and floors which do not have defined intensive departing traffic, comprising: defining building floors with intensive departing traffic; providing destination call panels only on floors with defined intensive departing traffic; providing traditional up/down call panels on floors which do not have defined intensive departing traffic; inputting direct destination calls to the system using a destination call device placed outside of an elevator car; determining and storing, on an elevator system customer-specific basis, information regarding one or more destination building floors most frequently used if the customer is a regular user of the elevator system; displaying on a destination call panel, one or more most frequently used destination floors for said regular customer; and providing confirmation means which confirms that one of the one or more of the most frequently used floors displayed on the destination call panel is the floor at which said regular customer wants the elevator to stop.