Business to business computer system for communicating and processing rental car reservations using web services

摘要

An Internet-enabled automatic rental vehicle transaction system, the systemcomprising a web service connector in communication with a rental vehicle softwareprogram, the web service connector being configured to (1) receive, via a network,a document from a computer system of an authorized purchaser of rental vehicleservices on behalf of another, the document comprising a web service rental vehiclereservation request, (2) process the received document in accordance with aweb service specification document to create one or more data objects havinga format supported by the rental vehicle software program, and (3) communicatethe one or more data objects to the rental vehicle software program, and whereinthe rental vehicle software program is configured to automatically processthe one or more data objects for fulfillment of the reservation request.