Patent ID: 8108231

Claim:
An apparatus for creating a reservation for a rental vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a server accessible over a network to a user computer, the server being configured to (1) book a rental vehicle reservation with a rental vehicle service provider for a customer in response to data received from the user computer, wherein the rental vehicle service provider has a plurality of rental vehicle branch locations, wherein the received data comprises an identification of a fixed based operator (FBO) corresponding to travel plans of the customer, and (2) automatically select a rental vehicle branch location from among the plurality of rental vehicle branch locations for the reservation based at least in part upon the received FBO identification; wherein the server is in communication with a database, the database storing data that associates each of a plurality of FBOs with a rental vehicle branch location from among the plurality of rental vehicle branch locations, the FBOs being different entities than the rental vehicle service provider, and wherein the server is further configured to automatically select the rental vehicle branch location for the reservation by accessing the database to determine the associated rental vehicle branch location corresponding to the received FBO identification.