Method and Apparatus for Improved Listings of Branch Locations for Booking Rental Vehicle Reservations On-Line

• US 20120296681A1
• Filed: 07/30/2012
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Crawford Group Incorporated (Jack Taylor Family Voting Trust U A D 4 14 99)
• Original Assignee: The Crawford Group Incorporated (Jack Taylor Family Voting Trust U A D 4 14 99)
• Inventors: Fitzgerald, Neil, Belanger, Hugues, Boruff, Kelli, Tucker, Paul, Everson, Jeffrey Lee
• Application Number:
  US13/561,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20120296681A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0645 Rental transactions; Leasing transactions

Abstract

Disclosed herein are techniques for permitting users to efficiently identify a desired branch location for a rental vehicle reservation. For example, a user-selectable link can be provided on a website page that, upon user selection, restricts a list of available branch locations in an area to only airport branch locations in that area.

Claims

1. A method of processing a rental vehicle reservation transaction between a customer computer and rental vehicle reservation-making entity via a rental vehicle reservation booking website accessed over the internet, the method comprising:

displaying a page on the customer computer that presents a link for finding a branch location for the rental vehicle reservation transaction, the page having at least a portion of a first list comprising a plurality of rental vehicle branch locations available for selection, wherein at least one of the listed rental vehicle branch locations is an airport branch location, the page further having a link that is selectable by a customer to restrict the list to only each airport rental vehicle branch location present on the list;

receiving input from the customer indicative of customer selection of the airport rental vehicle branch location restriction link; and

displaying another page on the customer computer, the another page having a new list present thereon, the new list including only each airport rental vehicle branch location that was present in the first list.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the another page includes a link thereon that is selectable by the user to return the user to the page with the first list.