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 application with respect to an entity, the entity comprising a plurality of divisions, the method comprising:
- defining a plurality of division-specific specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each division-specific specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to a division of the entity and comprising at least one characteristic of a rental vehicle reservation;
generating a plurality of division-specific deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs), each division-specific deep-link URL being configured, upon selection by a user, to navigate the user to a deep-linked page of an automated rental vehicle reservation booking application corresponding to that division-specific deep-link URL, the deep-linked page being configured to solicit user input for booking a rental vehicle reservation that already has pre-selected for it the at least one characteristic of the specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to same division as that division-specific deep-link URL;
grouping the generated division-specific deep-link URLs in association with the entity; and
communicating a plurality of the grouped division-specific deep-link URLs to a remote computer for display to a user via a multiple division, multiple deep-link page; 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 administering a rental vehicle reservation booking application with respect to an entity, the entity comprising a plurality of divisions, the method comprising:
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defining a plurality of division-specific specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each division-specific specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to a division of the entity and comprising at least one characteristic of a rental vehicle reservation; generating a plurality of division-specific deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs), each division-specific deep-link URL being configured, upon selection by a user, to navigate the user to a deep-linked page of an automated rental vehicle reservation booking application corresponding to that division-specific deep-link URL, the deep-linked page being configured to solicit user input for booking a rental vehicle reservation that already has pre-selected for it the at least one characteristic of the specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to same division as that division-specific deep-link URL; grouping the generated division-specific deep-link URLs in association with the entity; and communicating a plurality of the grouped division-specific deep-link URLs to a remote computer for display to a user via a multiple division, multiple deep-link page; 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 administering a rental vehicle reservation booking application with respect to an entity, the entity comprising a plurality of divisions, the apparatus comprising:
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a processor; and a memory; wherein the processor and memory are configured to (1) define a plurality of division-specific specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each division-specific specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to a division of the entity and comprising at least one characteristic of a rental vehicle reservation, (2) generate a plurality of division-specific deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs), each division-specific deep-link URL being configured, upon selection by a user, to navigate the user to a deep-linked page of an automated rental vehicle reservation booking application corresponding to that division-specific deep-link URL, the deep-linked page being configured to solicit user input for booking a rental vehicle reservation that already has pre-selected for it the at least one characteristic of the specialized rental vehicle reservation profile corresponding to same division as that division-specific deep-link URL, (3) group the generated division-specific deep-link URLs in association with the entity, and (4) communicate a plurality of the grouped division-specific deep-link URLs to a remote computer for display to a user via a multiple division, multiple deep-link page. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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