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Method and system for providing and administering online rental vehicle reservation booking services

  • US 8,271,309 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2006
  • Issued: 09/18/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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