Patent ID: 7275038

Claim:
An Internet enabled automatic rental vehicle transaction system, said system having an internet web portal through which a third party authorized purchaser of rental vehicle services for use by another may access, for bi-directional communication and functional interaction, a rental vehicle services provider using a digital data entry device connected to the internet, a rental vehicle software program resident on a computer system remote from said third party authorized purchaser, said rental vehicle software program being configured to automatically respond to a series of commands from said third party authorized purchaser and communicate a plurality of rental vehicle reservations through said rental vehicle software program to a second software program for fulfillment at a specific geographically remote rental vehicle location at which vehicles for rent are situated, each of said reservations including an identification of an associated repair facility where a vehicle of said another is undergoing repairs and wherein said reservations have a plurality of associated repair facilities, said rental vehicle software program collecting data relating to said plurality of reservations into a database accessible by said third party authorized purchaser and being further configured for managing of said reservations by said third party authorized purchaser including automatically generating repair facility call back lists authorizing said reservations, processing said reservations, and billing said reservations to said third party authorized purchaser so that said plurality of rental vehicle reservations may be automatically processed thereby, the repair facility call back lists being configured to allow said third party authorized purchaser to sort said reservations tat are open by at least the associated repair facilities wherein said list groups together the open reservations by one or more associated repair facilities.