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US08374894B2 Extended web enabled multi-featured business to business computer system for rental vehicle services
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扩展的网络功能的多功能商务到商业计算机系统租赁车辆服务
- 专利标题: Extended web enabled multi-featured business to business computer system for rental vehicle services
- 专利标题(中): 扩展的网络功能的多功能商务到商业计算机系统租赁车辆服务
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申请号: US10343576申请日: 2001-10-19
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公开(公告)号: US08374894B2公开(公告)日: 2013-02-12
- 发明人: Timothy Robert Weinstock , Kimberly Ann DeVallance , Randall Allan Haselhorst , Craig Stephen Kennedy , David Gary Smith , William T. Tingle , Anita K. Klopfenstein
- 申请人: Timothy Robert Weinstock , Kimberly Ann DeVallance , Randall Allan Haselhorst , Craig Stephen Kennedy , David Gary Smith , William T. Tingle , Anita K. Klopfenstein
- 申请人地址: US MO St. Louis
- 专利权人: The Crawford Group, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: The Crawford Group, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US MO St. Louis
- 代理机构: Thompson Coburn LLP
- 国际申请: PCT/US01/51437 WO 20011019
- 国际公布: WO02/067175 WO 20020829
- 主分类号: G06Q10/00
- IPC分类号: G06Q10/00 ; G06Q40/00 ; G01C21/34
摘要:
An Internet enabled, business-to-business computerized transaction system is disclosed in its preferred embodiment for use in providing rental car services for high volume users and comprises an Internet web portal through which the high volume user may access a plurality of service providers including an integrated business computer network for at least one rental vehicle service provider. The rental vehicle services provider computer network is configured to interconnect a geographically diverse plurality of branch offices, cataloguing their available rental vehicles and schedules for same as well as handling all transactional data relating to its business. The Internet web portal provides ubiquitous connectivity and portability for a multi-level business organization who regularly places high volumes of rental purchases with its business partner and also those other service providers who may or may not have the same integrated business computer system and software. Utilizing the method and apparatus of the present invention large volumes of rental transactions may be placed, monitored, altered during performance, and closed out with financial accounting and payment being made virtually without human intervention.
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