Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120209637 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Customer Direct On-Line Reservation of Rental Vehicles - Disclosed herein is 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. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209638 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Customer Direct On-Line Reservation of Rental Vehicles - Disclosed herein is 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. | 08-16-2012 |
20120290341 | Method and Apparatus for Customer Direct On-Line Reservation of Rental Vehicles Including Deep-Linking - A method and apparatus are disclosed for expediting how rental vehicle reservations can be booked by employing deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs) that encode aspects of a rental vehicle reservation transaction to relieve users of a need to enter reservation data themselves when booking a rental vehicle reservation. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296681 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Listings of Branch Locations for Booking Rental Vehicle Reservations On-Line - Disclosed herein are techniques for permitting users to efficiently identify a desired branch location for a rental vehicle reservation. For example, a user-selectable link can be provided on a website page that, upon user selection, restricts a list of available branch locations in an area to only airport branch locations in that area. | 11-22-2012 |
20130030847 | Method and Apparatus for Expedited Rental Vehicle Reservation Creation Following a Previous Reservation - A method and apparatus are disclosed for expediting the ability of a customer to book a new rental vehicle reservation after booking a previous rental vehicle reservation. A link can be provided on a screen such as a confirmation page for a previous rental vehicle reservation that, upon customer selection, causes a new reservation transaction to be automatically loaded with data from the previous rental vehicle reservation. | 01-31-2013 |
20130046565 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Customer Profiling for Rental Vehicle Reservations - Disclosed herein is a reservation booking website for rental vehicle reservations wherein the customer profiles include “favorite” or “preferred” branch locations for rental vehicle reservations to expedite the customers' rental vehicle reservation booking experiences. | 02-21-2013 |
20130166331 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Control Over On-Line Reservations of Rental Vehicles - Disclosed herein are techniques for improved control over how customers can interact with a rental vehicle reservation booking site, including user interfaces for defining customer accounts and user interfaces for defining promotional offers with respect to rental vehicle reservations. | 06-27-2013 |
20130290042 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Customer Direct On-Line Reservation of Rental Vehicles - Disclosed herein is 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. | 10-31-2013 |
20140136249 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Listings of Branch Locations for Booking Rental Vehicle Reservations On-Line - Disclosed herein are techniques for permitting users to efficiently identify a desired branch location for a rental vehicle reservation. For example, a user-selectable link can be provided on a website page that, upon user selection, restricts a list of available branch locations in an area to only airport branch locations in that area. | 05-15-2014 |