Automated reservation system with transfer of user-preferences from home to guest accommodations
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorRik Sagar
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Abstract
When a user reserves guest accommodations the user programmable settings of the appliances of the user's home network are transferred to the appliances of the guest accommodations. The settings can be stored in a file on the user's computer system or on an accessible external system such as the internet. Alternatively, or in addition, when the user makes a reservation, the home network can query appliances connected to the home network to determine the user programmable settings of such appliances.
Claims25
An automated booking system for guest accommodations, comprising:
- a guest accommodation which can be automatically booked by the system and used by a customer for a period of time;
- a provider network of a guest accommodations reservation provider having a data base for customer preferences;
- reserving means for communication between a home network and the provider network for reserving the guest accommodations for a period of use;
- preference transmission means for transmitting customer preferences from a data base of the home network to the data base of the provider network;
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- means for accessing the provider data base for providing the accommodations depending on the customer preferences, wherein the customer preferences include user programmable settings of home appliances in the home network.
An automated booking system for guest accommodations, comprising:
- a home network of a customer, the home network interconnecting home appliances having user programmable settings;
- a guest accommodation which can be automatically booked by the system and used by the customer for a period of time and which can be provided with guest appliances;
- a provider network of an accommodations provider, the provider network having a data base, the guest appliances of the guest accommodations are connected to the provider network;
- reservation means in communication with a home network of a customer and the provider network for reserving the guest accommodations for a period of use;
- settings transmission means for transmitting the user programmable settings of the home appliances of the customer to the provider data base;
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- means for downloading the user programmable settings from the provider data base into the guest appliances of the guest accommodations for programming the appliances of the guest accommodations at the time of the customer's use of the accommodations.
An automated booking system for guest accommodations, comprising:
- a home network having a data base of customer preferences;
- a guest accommodation which can be automatically booked by the system and used by the customer for a period of time;
- a provider network of a guest accommodations reservation provider having a data base for customer preferences;
- reserving means for communication between the home network and the provider network for reserving the guest accommodations for a period of use;
- preference transmission means for transmitting customer preferences from the data base of the home network to the data base of the provider network;
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- means for accessing the provider data base for providing the accommodations depending on the customer preferences, wherein the customer preferences include user programmable settings of home appliances in the home network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.