Patent ID: 8862487
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a service to book a rental vehicle reservation, the rental vehicle reservation comprising a plurality of characteristics that need to be defined for booking, the method comprising: communicating a plurality of deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs) to a remote computer to populate a multiple deep-link graphical user interface (GUI) for display on the remote computer such that the multiple deep-link GUI includes a plurality of the communicated deep-link URLs, each deep-link URL being associated with a specialized rental vehicle reservation profile such that a plurality of the deep-link URLs are associated with a plurality of specialized rental vehicle reservation profiles, each specialized rental vehicle reservation profile comprising a rental vehicle reservation characteristic, and wherein each deep-link URL is user-selectable to navigate the user to a deep-linked GUI that is configured to solicit input for booking a rental vehicle reservation that has the characteristic of the deep-link URL's associated specialized rental vehicle reservation profile pre-defined for it; receiving input from the remote computer corresponding to a selection of one of the deep-link URLs included on the multiple deep-link GUI; automatically defining a rental vehicle reservation transaction to include the characteristic of the specialized rental vehicle profile associated with the selected deep-link URL; and communicating data to the remote computer to solicit additional input from the user for booking the rental vehicle reservation transaction; and wherein the method steps are performed by a processor; and wherein the rental vehicle reservation transaction is for a customer entity having a plurality of divisions, each of a plurality of the divisions having an associated specialized rental vehicle reservation profile, and wherein a plurality of the deep-link URLs are associated with a division of the customer such that the plurality of deep-link URLs comprise a plurality of division-specific deep-link URLS.