Method and System for Providing and Administering Online Rental Vehicle Reservation Booking Services
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1. A method for providing a service to book a rental vehicle reservation, the rental vehicle reservation comprising a plurality of characteristics that need to be defined for booking, the method comprising:
- communicating a plurality of deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs) to a remote computer to populate a multiple deep-link graphical user interface (GUI) for display on the remote computer such that the multiple deep-link GUI includes a plurality of the communicated deep-link URLs, each deep-link URL being associated with a specialized rental vehicle reservation profile such that a plurality of the deep-link URLs are associated with a plurality of specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each specialized rental vehicle reservation profile comprising a rental vehicle reservation characteristic, and wherein each deep-link URL is user-selectable to navigate the user to a deep-linked GUI that is configured to solicit input for booking a rental vehicle reservation that has the characteristic of the deep-link URL'"'"'s associated specialized rental vehicle reservation profile pre-defined for it;
receiving input from the remote computer corresponding to a selection of one of the deep-link URLs included on the multiple deep-link GUI;
automatically defining a rental vehicle reservation transaction to include the characteristic of the specialized rental vehicle profile associated with the selected deep-link URL; and
communicating data to the remote computer to solicit additional input from the user for booking the rental vehicle reservation transaction; and
wherein the method steps are performed by a processor.
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed herein for customizing pages of a rental vehicle reservation booking website with deep-links for specialized rental vehicle reservations. The specialized rental vehicle reservations may comprise reservations for a division of a customer entity and/or promotional offer reservations. Multi-division and multi-offer pages can also be defined for the website through an administrative tool.
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1. A method for providing a service to book a rental vehicle reservation, the rental vehicle reservation comprising a plurality of characteristics that need to be defined for booking, the method comprising:
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communicating a plurality of deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs) to a remote computer to populate a multiple deep-link graphical user interface (GUI) for display on the remote computer such that the multiple deep-link GUI includes a plurality of the communicated deep-link URLs, each deep-link URL being associated with a specialized rental vehicle reservation profile such that a plurality of the deep-link URLs are associated with a plurality of specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each specialized rental vehicle reservation profile comprising a rental vehicle reservation characteristic, and wherein each deep-link URL is user-selectable to navigate the user to a deep-linked GUI that is configured to solicit input for booking a rental vehicle reservation that has the characteristic of the deep-link URL'"'"'s associated specialized rental vehicle reservation profile pre-defined for it; receiving input from the remote computer corresponding to a selection of one of the deep-link URLs included on the multiple deep-link GUI; automatically defining a rental vehicle reservation transaction to include the characteristic of the specialized rental vehicle profile associated with the selected deep-link URL; and communicating data to the remote computer to solicit additional input from the user for booking the rental vehicle reservation transaction; and wherein the method steps are performed by a processor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus for providing a service to book a rental vehicle reservation, the rental vehicle reservation comprising a plurality of characteristics that need to be defined for booking, the apparatus comprising:
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a processor; and a memory; wherein the processor and memory are configured to (1) communicate a plurality of deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs) to a remote computer to populate a multiple deep-link graphical user interface (GUI) for display on the remote computer such that the multiple deep-link GUI includes a plurality of the communicated deep-link URLs, each deep-link URL being associated with a specialized rental vehicle reservation profile such that a plurality of the deep-link URLs are associated with a plurality of specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each specialized rental vehicle reservation profile comprising a rental vehicle reservation characteristic, and wherein each deep-link URL is user-selectable to navigate the user to a deep-linked GUI that is configured to solicit input for booking a rental vehicle reservation that has the characteristic of the deep-link URL'"'"'s associated specialized rental vehicle reservation profile pre-defined for it, (2) receive input from the remote computer corresponding to a selection of one of the deep-link URLs included on the multiple deep-link GUI, (3) automatically define a rental vehicle reservation transaction to include the characteristic of the specialized rental vehicle profile associated with the selected deep-link URL, and (4) communicate data to the remote computer to solicit additional input from the user for booking the rental vehicle reservation transaction; and wherein the method steps are performed by a processor. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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