Method and system for providing and administering online rental vehicle reservation booking services
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1. A method for administering a rental vehicle reservation booking website, the method comprising:
- maintaining a customer profile in a database, the customer profile being associated with an entity, the entity having a plurality of divisions;
defining a plurality of specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to a division of the entity and comprising at least one characteristic of a rental vehicle reservation;
defining a plurality of deep-linked pages, each one of which corresponding to a division of the entity and being configured to accept user input toward creating a rental vehicle reservation that is pre-filled with the at least one characteristic in a manner corresponding to the specialized rental vehicle reservation profile for that deep-linked page'"'"'s corresponding division;
defining a multiple division, multiple deep-link page for displaying a plurality of deep-links on a user computer, each deep-link (1) being associated with one of the defined deep-link pages, (2) being selectable by a user of the user computer to display the defined deep-linked page associated therewith, and (3) being for display on the multiple deep-link page in a manner associating that deep-link with the division corresponding to that deep link'"'"'s associated deep-linked page; and
storing data corresponding to the defined specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, the defined deep-linked pages, and the defined multiple division, multiple deep-link page in the database in association with the customer profile for subsequent retrieval when a user who is associated with the customer profile accesses the website to request the defined multiple division, multiple deep-link page; and
wherein the method steps are performed under program control by a computer.
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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 administering a rental vehicle reservation booking website, the method comprising:
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maintaining a customer profile in a database, the customer profile being associated with an entity, the entity having a plurality of divisions; defining a plurality of specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to a division of the entity and comprising at least one characteristic of a rental vehicle reservation; defining a plurality of deep-linked pages, each one of which corresponding to a division of the entity and being configured to accept user input toward creating a rental vehicle reservation that is pre-filled with the at least one characteristic in a manner corresponding to the specialized rental vehicle reservation profile for that deep-linked page'"'"'s corresponding division; defining a multiple division, multiple deep-link page for displaying a plurality of deep-links on a user computer, each deep-link (1) being associated with one of the defined deep-link pages, (2) being selectable by a user of the user computer to display the defined deep-linked page associated therewith, and (3) being for display on the multiple deep-link page in a manner associating that deep-link with the division corresponding to that deep link'"'"'s associated deep-linked page; and storing data corresponding to the defined specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, the defined deep-linked pages, and the defined multiple division, multiple deep-link page in the database in association with the customer profile for subsequent retrieval when a user who is associated with the customer profile accesses the website to request the defined multiple division, multiple deep-link page; and wherein the method steps are performed under program control by a computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system for administering a rental vehicle reservation booking website, the system comprising:
a computer system comprising a database, the computer system configured to (1) maintain a customer profile in the database, the customer profile being associated with an entity, the entity having a plurality of divisions, (2) define a plurality of specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to a division of the entity and comprising at least one characteristic of a rental vehicle reservation, (3) define a plurality of deep-linked pages, each one of which corresponding to a division of the entity and being configured to accept user input toward creating a rental vehicle reservation that is pre-filled with the at least one characteristic in a manner corresponding to the specialized rental vehicle reservation profile for that deep-linked page'"'"'s corresponding division, (4) define a multiple division, multiple deep-link page for displaying a plurality of deep-links on a user computer, each deep-link (a) being associated with one of the defined deep-link pages, (b) being selectable by a user of the user computer to display the defined deep-linked page associated therewith, and (c) being for display on the multiple division, multiple deep-link page in a manner associating that deep-link with the division corresponding to that deep link'"'"'s associated deep-linked page, and (5) store data corresponding to the defined specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, the defined deep-linked pages, and the defined multiple division, multiple deep-link page in the database in association with the customer profile for subsequent retrieval when a user who is associated with the customer profile accesses the website to request the defined multiple division, multiple deep-link page. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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