Method and system for a hotel based meeting and conference communications network

摘要

A method and system for implementation and operation of an interactive communications network for meeting, trade show, convention or conference (“event”) organizers and attendees, which is implemented in one or more hotels proximate to the event facilities, with an access device in guest rooms as well as additional implementations for universal access by event attendees, which access provides for real time messaging and on demand information and communications between the organizers and attendees for access to both static and changing information about the event, such as schedules, locations, speakers and other information typically pertinent to event attendees.

主权项

1. A system for providing an interactive communications network interface through which event organizers, suppliers, sponsors or attendees can communicate information related to an event, comprising:
an event management module configured to:
receive event related information associated with at least one event provided by at least one event organizer;receive guest information associated with a guest of a hotel;determine one or more events being attended by the guest during the guest's stay at the hotel from hotel PMS system check-in records indicating that a guest has checked into one of a plurality of guest rooms;determine if the guest has checked in to the hotel;upon determining that the guest has checked in to a guest room of the hotel, identify the guest room associated with the guest and a communications access device associated with the guest;automatically configure the identified communications access device to receive guest-specific event related information corresponding to the events being attended by the guest; andprovide the guest-specific event related information to the identified communications access device; and a plurality of communications access devices in communication with the event management module, each of the a plurality of communications access devices installed in one of a plurality of separate guest rooms of the hotel and associated with one of a plurality of guests and configured to:
receive the event related information from the event management module,present the event related information associated with the one or more events being attended by the guest associated with the respective communications access device in the guest room, andenable the guest to interact with the communications access device to access guest-specific additional information associated with the events being attended by the guest on an interactive basis.