System, method and apparatus for tracking and rating renters

• US 8,145,613 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2007
• Issued: 03/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Guest Stat, LLC
• Original Assignee: GuestStat, LLC
• Inventors: Colletti, Lacey Michelle
• Primary Examiner(s): ALAM, SHAHID AL
• Application Number:
  US11/861,046
• Publication Number:
  US 20090083093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,645 Days
• Field of Search: 707/705, 707/770, 705/4, 705/26.7, 705/28, 705/38.R, 705/307
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0645 Rental transactions; Leasing transactions

Abstract

An application for a method of tracking and assessing rentals includes entering renter information regarding a renter and entering rental assessment data regarding at least one rental at a client computer and transferring the renter information and the rental assessment data from the client computer to a server computer system. In the server computer system, an overall assessment is created from the rental assessment data and the renter information, the rental assessment data and the overall assessment is stored in a database record associated with the renter.

Claims

1. A method of tracking and assessing rentals, the method comprising:

entering renter information regarding a renter and entering rental assessment data regarding at least one rental at a client computer, the client computer being one of a plurality of client computers;

transferring the renter information and the rental assessment data from the client computer to a server computer system;

calculating an overall numerical assessment value from the rental assessment data in the server computer system;

storing the renter information, the rental assessment data and the overall numerical assessment value in rental assessment data records within a database record associated with the renter in the server computer system;

formatting one or more of the rental assessment data records into a rental assessment report, the server computer sending the rental assessment report to one of the plurality of clients;

wherein the rental assessment data includes at least one data element from the group consisting of a rental assessment for housekeeping, a rental assessment for conduct, and a rental assessment for accounting/attendance.

2. The method of tracking and assessing rentals of claim 1, wherein the step of entering renter information further comprises entering rental agent information and the step of storing the renter information, the rental assessment data and the overall numerical assessment value in a database record further comprises storing the rental agent information in the database record associated with the renter.

3. The method of tracking and assessing rentals of claim 1, wherein the renter information includes a renter name, a renter address and a renter phone number.

4. The method of tracking and assessing rentals of claim 2, wherein the rental agent information includes a rental agent name and a rental agent email address.

5. The method of tracking and assessing rentals of claim 1, wherein the rental assessment comprises values for a rental assessment for housekeeping, a rental assessment for conduct and a rental assessment for accounting/attendance.

6. The method of tracking and assessing rentals of claim 1, wherein the overall numerical assessment value is a percentage value based upon the rental assessment.

7. The method of tracking and assessing rentals of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

retrieving a stored database record related to a potential renter; and

deciding whether to rent to the potential renter based on the rental assessment data from the stored database record.

8. A computer program embodied in a storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a system for tracking and collecting rental assessment data, wherein the at least one instruction comprises:

computer readable instructions for capturing renter information regarding a renter and computer readable instructions for capturing rental assessment data regarding at least one rental at a client computer, the client computer being one of a plurality of client computers;

computer readable instructions for transferring the renter information and computer readable instructions for transferring the rental assessment data from the client computer to a server computer system;

computer readable instructions for numerically calculating an overall assessment value from the rental assessment data in the server computer system;

computer readable instructions for storing the renter information, the rental assessment data and the overall assessment value in rental assessment data records within a database record associated with the renter in the server computer system;

computer readable instructions for formatting one or more of the rental assessment data records into a rental assessment report, computer readable instructions for sending the rental assessment report to one of the plurality of clients;

wherein the rental assessment data includes at least one data element from the group consisting of a rental assessment for housekeeping, a rental assessment for conduct, and a rental assessment for accounting/attendance.

9. The computer program embodied in a storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a system for tracking and collecting rental assessment data of claim 8, wherein the computer readable instructions for capturing renter information further comprises computer readable instructions for capturing rental agent information and the computer readable instructions for storing the renter information, the rental assessment data and the overall assessment in a database record further includes computer readable instructions for storing the rental agent information in the database record associated with the renter.

10. The computer program embodied in a storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a system for tracking and collecting rental assessment data of claim 9, wherein the rental agent information includes a rental agent name and a rental agent email address.

11. The computer program embodied in a storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a system for tracking and collecting rental assessment data of claim 8, wherein the renter information includes a renter name, a renter address and a renter phone number.

12. The computer program embodied in a storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a system for tracking and collecting rental assessment data of claim 8, wherein the rental assessment data includes at least a rental assessment for housekeeping, a rental assessment for conduct and a rental assessment for accounting/attendance.

13. The computer program embodied in a storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a system for tracking and collecting rental assessment data of claim 8, wherein the overall assessment value is a percentage value calculated from the rental assessment data.

14. The computer program embodied in a storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a system for tracking and collecting rental assessment data of claim 8, further comprising:

computer readable instructions for retrieving at least one stored database record related to a potential renter; and

computer readable instructions for combining the stored database records into a report, the report comprising data from each stored database record and an overall assessment value of the potential renter, the overall assessment value is calculated from the rental assessment data; and

computer readable instructions for sending the report from the server to the client computer.