Electronic reservation system
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorsAdam Kuenzi, Amuduri Santhosh, Ramesh Lingala
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Abstract
An electronic reservation method includes detecting that a user has utilized a first computing device in a transaction in which the user acquires an item, or acquires a voucher for a particular activity. An electronic reservation is created by a reservation server for the user based on the detecting that reserves one of a plurality of reservable locations within a predefined geographic area for the user. The plurality of reservable locations are configured for use of the item or for an activity related to but different than the particular activity. A credential for the electronic reservation is transmitted to a mobile computing device of the user.
Claims20
A method of reserving and controlling access to a plurality of reservable locations within a predefined geographic area, comprising:
- detecting that a user has utilized a first computing device in a transaction in which the user acquires an item, or acquires a voucher for a particular activity;
- creating, by a reservation server, an electronic reservation based on the detecting that reserves one of the plurality of reservable locations within the predefined geographic area for the user, the plurality of reservable locations being configured for use of the item or for an activity related to but different than the particular activity;
- transmitting a credential for the electronic reservation to a mobile computing device of the user;
- electronically authenticating the credential through wireless signaling with the mobile computing device when the mobile computing device is at an entrance barrier to the predefined geographic area;
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- controlling, by the reservation server, the entrance barrier to the predefined geographic area based on said authenticating, wherein controlling the entrance barrier comprises moving the entrance barrier to provide the user access to the predefined geographic area.
A system for reserving and controlling access to a plurality of reservable locations within a predefined geographic area, comprising:
- a reservation server comprising memory storing electronic reservations for the a-plurality of reservable locations within the predefined geographic area, and a processor operatively connected to the memory;
- the processor configured to:
- detect that a user has utilized a first computing device in a transaction in which the user acquires an item, or acquires a voucher for a particular activity;
- create an electronic reservation based on the detection that reserves one of the plurality of reservable locations within the predefined geographic area for the user, the plurality of reservable locations being configured for use of the item or for an activity related to but different than the particular activity;
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- transmit a credential for the electronic reservation to a mobile computing device of the user;
- wherein the processor of the reservation server or a processor of a status device in proximity to the predefined geographic area is configured to:
- electronically authenticate the credential through wireless signaling with the mobile computing device when the mobile computing device is at an entrance barrier to the predefined geographic area;
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- control the entrance barrier to the predefined geographic area based on the authentication, wherein to control the entrance barrier the processor is configured to move the entrance barrier to provide the user access to the predefined geographic area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.