Patent ID: 7363241

Claim:
A booking and issuing method of an intranet ticket booking and issuing system including a net server and an issuing terminal interconnected to said net server via a local area network, said issuing terminal being interconnected to external reservation systems which accept ticket booking requests via at least one communication line, and a personal computer being interconnected to said net server via said local area network and having an Internet connection function, comprising: a booking step for making a booking from said personal computer to one of said external reservation systems, said booking step including: addressing a user's ticket booking commencement request to said net server from said personal computer; sending home page addresses of said external reservation systems from said net server to said personal computer via said local area network in accordance with said ticket booking commencement request; storing, in said personal computer, the home page addresses sent from said net server into a memory and displaying information corresponding to the home page addresses relating to said external reservation systems on a screen for selection by the user; receiving, in said personal computer, a selection of one of said external reservation systems by the user and reading out the home page address of the selected external reservation system from said memory; connecting said personal computer to a website of the selected external reservation system via the Internet and displaying a reservation screen of a web site provided by the selected external reservation system; completing, without the aid of said net server, a booking through said website provided by the selected external reservation system, between said personal computer and the selected external reservation system, by transmitting and receiving information data including a booking number via the Internet; and generating, in said personal computer, booking data of a predetermined format by compiling predetermined data included in the information data and sending the booking data of the predetermined format to said net server via said local network, the booking data of the predetermined format including the booking number; and an issuance step for issuing a booked ticket by said issuing terminal, said issuance step including: receiving, in said net server, the booking data of the predetermined format; storing a received booking data in said net server, and sending said booking number included in the received booking data to said issuing terminal from said net server; transmitting said booking number from said issuing terminal to the selected external reservation system via said at least one communication line, and receiving, in said issuing terminal, ticket issuing data from the selected external reservation system to issue the ticket booked in the selected external reservation system.