Deep-linking for Rental Vehicle Reservation Personalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Rental vehicle service providers face challenges in personalizing and streamlining their online reservation booking websites due to the impersonal nature of the internet, leading to inefficiencies in customer experience and increased time in providing customized experiences.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of deep-linking techniques that allow users to pre-select various aspects of rental vehicle reservations, such as location, vehicle type, and dates, directly accessing intermediate pages of the website, along with an administrative tool for creating and managing customer profile-based deep-links and multi-division pages, enabling efficient customization and streamlining of the reservation process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If deep-linking techniques are implemented to allow users to pre-select reservation aspects and directly access intermediate pages, then user navigation efficiency and personalization are improved, but website complexity and administrative overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures deep-link parameters including user preferences, reservation criteria, and navigation paths in advance. User profiles store pre-selected reservation aspects such as vehicle types, locations, and date ranges, allowing users to bypass standard navigation steps and directly access relevant booking pages with pre-populated information.
Solution Approach 2:
An administrative tool acts as an intermediary between website operators and users, providing a user-friendly interface for configuring complex deep-link parameters. This mediator translates simple administrative inputs into sophisticated URL structures and page parameters, managing website complexity while enabling enhanced user navigation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If customer profile-based deep-links are created to personalize the reservation experience, then customer satisfaction and service personalization are improved, but time and resources required for customization increase
Solution Approach 1:
Customer profiles are pre-configured with deep-link parameters including preferred vehicle types, frequent rental locations, typical reservation dates, and other personalized criteria. This preliminary setup allows the system to automatically generate personalized deep-links without requiring real-time customization, significantly reducing the time needed to provide tailored reservation experiences.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates template-based customer profiles that can be replicated and modified. Once a deep-link configuration is established for one customer segment, it can be copied and adapted for similar customers, reducing the time and resources required for customization while maintaining high levels of personalization.
3Ease of manufacture
If administrative tools are provided for creating and managing deep-links and multi-division pages, then ease of website customization is improved, but system complexity and administrative burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The administrative tool enables website operators to independently create, modify, and manage deep-links and multi-division pages without requiring technical expertise or developer intervention. The system provides self-contained functionality for parameter configuration, URL generation, and page management, making website customization accessible to non-technical users while encapsulating the underlying system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The administrative tool is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple functions including deep-link creation, multi-division page management, parameter configuration, and template generation. This multi-functional approach consolidates various administrative tasks into a single system, reducing overall complexity while enhancing customization capabilities.
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AI summary
A system and method is disclosed herein for customizing pages of a rental vehicle reservation booking website with deep-links for specialized rental vehicle reservations. The specialized rental vehicle reservations may comprise reservations for a division of a customer entity and/or promotional offer reservations. Multi-division and multi-offer pages can also be defined for the website through an administrative tool.