On-line truck rental and reservation system and method
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Abstract
A computer-based system and method provide truck-rental information and expertise-based guidance to facilitate a customer'"'"'s reserving and renting of a truck using a communications network. The system includes a server which processes user inputs from a user'"'"'s computer over a communications network and provides information responsive thereto to the user'"'"'s computer over the communications network from which a service contract is generated and confirmed. The server includes a memory and programming. In the memory, a plurality of data sets is stored relating to (a) trucks which can be rented and associated rental prices for the trucks, (b) towing accessories that can be rented and towed vehicles with which the towing accessories can be used, (c) towing accessories and associated rental prices for the towing accessories, (d) expertise-based guidance relating to trucks, and (e) expertise-based guidance relating to towing accessories. The programming responds to user inputs to access the memory and provide data from respective data sets to user computer over the communications network.
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43 Claims
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1. to 25. (canceled)
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26. A method for facilitating truck rental via a computer system, comprising:
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displaying a web page to a user, the web page including a form;
storing truck information;
storing vehicle towing information;
receiving user input via the form, the user input including a selected truck for rental and a selected vehicle for towing by the selected truck; and
determining if the selected vehicle is capable of being towed by the selected truck on the basis of the truck information and the vehicle towing information. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A system, comprising:
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a processor;
at least one arrangement configured to communicate with the processor via a communications network;
a computer-readable storing medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions capable of being executed by the processor to implement a method for facilitating truck rental, the set of instructions effective to perform the steps of;
displaying a web page to a user, the web page including a form;
storing truck information;
storing vehicle towing information;
receiving user input via the form, the user input including a selected truck for rental and a selected vehicle for towing by the selected truck; and
determining if the selected vehicle is capable of being towed by the selected truck on the basis of the truck information and the vehicle towing information. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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