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Method for individually renting private car, system to individually rent private car and storage medium storing control program to control same

  • US 20020010602A1
  • Filed: 07/10/2001
  • Published: 01/24/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for individually renting a private car employed in an individual private car renting system made up of a first dealer terminal, dealer server, second dealer terminal, and communication line, said method comprising:

  • first customer information transmitting processing causing said first dealer terminal to produce unused period information representing a period during which said private car possessed by a first customer is not used, private car information representing a model of said private car, car housing place information representing a place where said private car is housed during said unused period and to transmit them to said communication line as said first customer information;

    private car availability information causing said dealer server to receive said first customer information through said communication line and to produce said private car availability information representing a private car availability state in each region and then to transmit it to said communication line;

    rent request information transmitting processing causing said second dealer terminal to receive said private car availability information through said communication line and to provide said private car availability information to a second customer who is scheduled to visit said region where said housing place of said private car exists and allowing said second customer to read said private car availability information and, if there is a private car that is able to be rented, causing said second dealer terminal to produce said rent request information representing a request for renting said private car and to transmit it to said communication line; and

    rent request information transferring processing causing said dealer server to receive said rent request information through said communication line and to transfer said rent request information through said communication line to said first dealer terminal and, at a same time, to update said private car availability information based on said rent request information.

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