Method and System for Updating On-Line Reservations
AssigneeAffirm, Inc.
InventorQi (Nick) Zhu
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Abstract
A method for updating online reservations may include receiving a request for a listing of available hotel rooms, retrieving available hotel room information from multiple servers, displaying the list of available hotel rooms, and receiving user selection of one of the available hotel rooms. The method may further include generating a reservation based on the user selection, monitoring hotel room prices, canceling an original reservation in response to identifying a lower price, generating a new reservation, and crediting a user account based on a price difference between the original reservation and the new reservation.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method of updating on-line reservations made by a user, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for a listing of available hotel rooms;
- retrieving available hotel room information from multiple servers;
- displaying a list of available hotel rooms;
- receiving user selection of one of the available hotel rooms;
- generating an original reservation based on the user selection;
- monitoring hotel room prices;
- canceling the original reservation if a lower price is offered for an equivalent hotel room to the user selection;
- and
- generating a new reservation based on the lower price.
A system for updating on-line reservations made by a user, the system comprising a reservation module comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- receive a request for a listing of available hotel rooms;
- retrieve available hotel room information from multiple servers;
- display a list of available hotel rooms;
- receive user selection of one of the available hotel rooms;
- generate an original reservation based on the user selection;
- monitor hotel room prices;
- cancel the original reservation if a lower price is offered for an equivalent hotel room to the user selection;
- and
- generate a new reservation based on the lower price.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.