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US 2026/0044908 A1Published application
Charging-to-room system
AssigneeKotozna, Inc.
InventorGenri GOTO
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Abstract
A charging-to-room system (1) includes: a card key issuance unit (5) that issues a card key to a room of an accommodation facility where a user stays, based on accommodation plan information on the user acquired from an accommodation reservation management system (2); a two-dimensional code assignment unit (6) that assigns the card key a two-dimensional code in which identification information on the accommodation facility and an accommodation reservation number included in the accommodation plan information are coded; and a charging-to-room processing unit (7) that performs a charging-to-room process for charging, through use of the two-dimensional code on the card key, payment of a price for a product purchased by the user, or payment of a fee for a service used by the user, to the room where the user stays.
Claims9
A charging-to-room system comprising:
- a card key issuance unit that issues a card key to a room of an accommodation facility where a user stays, based on accommodation plan information on the user acquired from an accommodation reservation management system;
- a two-dimensional code assignment unit that assigns the card key a two-dimensional code in which identification information on the accommodation facility and an accommodation reservation number included in the accommodation plan information are coded;
- and
- a charging-to-room processing unit that performs a charging-to-room process for charging, through use of the two-dimensional code on the card key, payment of a price for a product purchased by the user, or payment of a fee for a service used by the user, to the room where the user stays,
- wherein the charging-to-room processing unit includes
- a charging-to-room request reception section that, when a shop terminal installed in a shop that sells the product or a shop that provides the service is set in a charging-to-room mode, and when the two-dimensional code on the card key is scanned with the shop terminal, receives a charging-to-room request from the shop terminal, the charging-to-room request including the identification information on the accommodation facility and the accommodation reservation number coded in the two-dimensional code,
- an amount-of-money input request section that sends, to the shop terminal as a response to the charging-to-room request, an amount-of-money input request requesting that an amount of money corresponding to the price for the product or the fee for the service be inputted,
- an amount-of-money information reception section that receives from the shop terminal, as a response to the amount-of-money input request, amount-of-money information on the price for the product or the fee for the service inputted by staff of the shop through use of the shop terminal,
- a room number input request section that sends to the shop terminal a room number input request requesting that a room number of the room where the user stays be inputted,
- a room number reception section that receives from the shop terminal, as a response to the room number input, the room number of the room where the user stays inputted by the user through use of the shop terminal,
- a charging-to-room permission determination section that determines whether or not charging to the room where the user stays is possible, by checking the room number received from the shop terminal against a room number of the user acquired from the accommodation reservation management system based on the identification information on the accommodation facility and the accommodation reservation number coded in the two-dimensional code, and
- a charging-to-room permission section that, when it is determined that charging to the room is possible, permits the price for the product purchased by the user or the fee for the service used by the user to be charged to the room where the user stays.
9 more elements
The charging-to-room system according to claim wherein
- access information for the user to access a guest service system is coded in the two-dimensional code, and
- the two-dimensional code assignment unit performs
- when staff of the accommodation facility inputs the room number of the user through use of an accommodation facility terminal installed in the accommodation facility, a process of acquiring the identification information on the accommodation facility and the accommodation reservation number of the user from the accommodation reservation management system,
- a process of acquiring the access information for the user from the guest service system, based on the identification information on the accommodation facility and the accommodation reservation number acquired from the accommodation reservation management system, and
- a process of assigning the identification information on the accommodation facility and the accommodation reservation number acquired from the accommodation reservation management system and the access information acquired from the guest service system to the card key.
2 more elements
A method executed by a charging-to-room system, the charging-to-room system including
- a card key issuance unit that issues a card key to a room of an accommodation facility where a user stays, based on accommodation plan information on the user acquired from an accommodation reservation management system,
- a two-dimensional code assignment unit that assigns the card key a two-dimensional code in which identification information on the accommodation facility and an accommodation reservation number included in the accommodation plan information are coded, and
- a charging-to-room processing unit that performs a charging-to-room process for charging, through use of the two-dimensional code on the card key, payment of a price for a product purchased by the user, or payment of a fee for a service used by the user, to the room where the user stays,
- the method comprising:
- when the two-dimensional code on the card key is scanned with a shop terminal installed in a shop that sells the product or a shop that provides the service when the shop terminal is set in a charging-to-room mode, receiving a charging-to-room request from the shop terminal, the charging-to-room request including the identification information on the accommodation facility and the accommodation reservation number coded in the two-dimensional code;
- sending, to the shop terminal as a response to the charging-to-room request, an amount-of-money input request requesting that an amount of money corresponding to the price for the product or the fee for the service be inputted;
- receiving from the shop terminal, as a response to the amount-of-money input request, amount-of-money information on the price for the product or the fee for the service inputted by staff of the shop through use of the shop terminal;
- sending to the shop terminal a room number input request requesting that a room number of the room where the user stays be inputted;
- receiving from the shop terminal, as a response to the room number input, the room number of the room where the user stays inputted by the user through use of the shop terminal;
- determining whether or not charging to the room where the user stays is possible, by checking the room number received from the shop terminal against a room number of the user acquired from the accommodation reservation management system based on the identification information on the accommodation facility and the accommodation reservation number coded in the two-dimensional code;
- and
- when it is determined that charging to the room is possible, permitting the price for the product purchased by the user or the fee for the service used by the user to be charged to the room where the user stays.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.