Pay-by-hour facility
AssigneeTaisho Sky Building, Inc.
InventorKazuharu ISHIDA
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Abstract
A management server of a reservation system is connected to a terminal device via a communication network and is configured to obtain user information of a user from the terminal device; set a reservation upper limit time for the user to make reservations during a predetermined period; receive a first reservation having a first usage time from the terminal device; determine whether the first usage time exceeds the reservation upper limit time; and in accordance with a determination that the first usage time does not exceed the reservation upper limit time: manage a reservation date and time as reservation information of the first reservation, and generate a first updated reservation upper limit time by subtracting the first usage time from the reservation upper limit time.
Claims20
An on-demand reservation system, comprising:
- a management server connected to a terminal device via a communication network and including one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
- obtaining user information of a user from the terminal device;
- setting a reservation upper limit time for the user to make reservations during a predetermined period;
- receiving a first reservation having a first usage time from the terminal device;
- determining whether the first usage time exceeds the reservation upper limit time;
- and
- in accordance with a determination that the first usage time does not exceed the reservation upper limit time:
- managing a reservation date and time as reservation information of the first reservation;
- and
- generating a first updated reservation upper limit time by subtracting the first usage time from the reservation upper limit time.
A method of operating an on-demand reservation system, the method comprising:
- at a management server connected to a terminal device via a communication network and including one or more processors and memory:
- obtaining user information of a user from the terminal device;
- setting a reservation upper limit time for the user to make reservations during a predetermined period;
- receiving a first reservation having a first usage time from the terminal device;
- determining whether the first usage time exceeds the reservation upper limit time;
- and
- in accordance with a determination that the first usage time does not exceed the reservation upper limit time:
- managing a reservation date and time as reservation information of the first reservation;
- and
- generating a first updated reservation upper limit time by subtracting the first usage time from the reservation upper limit time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.