Method and apparatus for improved customer direct on-line reservation of rental vehicles
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    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for improved customer direct on-line reservation of rental vehicles 有权
    用于改善客户直接在线预订租赁车辆的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US08108231B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-01-31

    申请号:US11039203

    申请日:2005-01-20

    IPC分类号: G06Q50/00 G06Q10/00

    摘要: Disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website for rental vehicle reservations wherein the functionality of managing customer profiles/accounts is expanded upon to provide customers with greater control over the profile data stored in their associated personalized accounts/profiles, particularly in connection with the “favorite” or “preferred” branch locations for rental vehicle reservations that are stored in the customer profiles/accounts. Also disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website wherein customers who plan to travel via general aviation (GA) are provided with a GA reservation creation path that is responsive to their GA travel needs. Also disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website for rental vehicle reservations wherein customers are provided with a streamlined ability to log into their customer profiles/accounts. Preferably fields for customer entry of a password for a customer profile/account (and optionally a field for customer entry of a user name for a customer profile/account) are provided on several of the displayed web pages (e.g., a choose vehicle page, a renter information page, a choose location page etc.), or more preferably, on all of the web pages that are displayed to the customer when the customer has not yet logged into his/her profile/account.

    摘要翻译: 这里公开了对于租赁车辆预约的预订预订网站的改进,其中管理客户简档/帐户的功能被扩展以向客户提供对存储在其相关联的个性化帐户/简档中的简档数据的更大控制,特别是与 存储在客户资料/帐户中的租赁车辆预订的“最喜爱的”或“优选的”分支机构。 这里还公开了对预约预订网站的改进,其中计划通过通用航空(GA)旅行的客户被提供有响应于他们的GA旅行需求的GA预留创建路径。 本文还公开了对于租赁车辆预约的预订预订网站的改进,其中向客户提供登录其客户简档/帐户的简化能力。 优选地,用于客户输入客户简档/帐户的密码(以及可选地,客户输入客户简档/帐户的用户名的字段)的字段在几个所显示的网页上提供(例如,选择车辆页面, 或者更优选地,当客户还没有登录到他/她的个人资料/账户时,在向客户显示的所有网页上。