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VEHICLE RENTAL ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE RENTAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM, VEHICLE RENTAL CUSTOMER TERMINAL, AND VEHICLE RENTAL CUSTOMER TERMINAL PROGRAM

  • US 20150348179A1
  • Filed: 08/22/2013
  • Published: 12/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A vehicle rental management system that can communicate with multiple mobile terminals respectively carried by multiple customers and/or multiple vehicle-mounted terminals respectively provided on multiple vehicles and manages a vehicle rental business of renting the vehicles to the customers, the vehicle rental management system comprising:

  • a control system that manages reservation and implementation of rental and return of the vehicles; and

    a database accessed by the control system,wherein the database includes usage condition data showing information about at which future time each of multiple parking sites prepared as rental sites and return sites for the vehicles can be used for vehicle return, and the control system specifies a reserved return site and a reserved return time relating to the new return reservation request by ascertaining which parking site among the multiple parking sites at which future time can be used, in response to a new return reservation request received from a first terminal among the mobile terminals and/or the vehicle-mounted terminals with reference to the usage condition data, and sets a return reservation determining the specified reserved return site and reserved return time.

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