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US 10,540,529 B1Granted
System controlled by data bearing records
AssigneeOEConnection LLC
InventorsIgor Bondarenko, Scott Morman, Mike Folk, Guillermo Lopez, Sarah Truman, Katherine Golden
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Abstract
A system controlled responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records is operative to cause vehicle parts usable to repair or upgrade vehicles to be determined and furnished. Data from the vehicle such as data read by a reader from a tag associated with a vehicle is used to determine vehicle identifying data. A repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC) operates responsive to the read data to produce a needed parts record (NPR). The records produced by the RECC are operative to cause a vehicle repair entity (VRE) to be furnished the vehicle repair or upgrade parts.
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Apparatus usable to cause vehicle parts to be available to at least one of repair or upgrade vehicles, comprising:
- at least one input device operative to receive vehicle identifying data included on a vehicle,
- a repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC), wherein the RECC is operative responsive at least in part to the vehicle identifying data to cause
- determination of a plurality of parts usable to at least one of repair or upgrade the vehicle,
- generation of a needed parts record (NPR), wherein the NPR includes parts identifying data usable to identify the plurality of parts,
- wherein the RECC is operative to communicate with a parts pricing circuit (PPC),
- wherein the RECC is operative responsive at least in part to the communication with the PPC and the NPR to cause
- a parts pricing record (PPR) to be produced, wherein the PPR includes parts identifying data and respective price data for at least some of the parts corresponding to the parts identifying data included in the NPR, and
- a unique identifier (ID) to be associated with the PPR,
- wherein the RECC is operative responsive at least in part to the PPR to generate a repair order record, wherein the repair order record
- corresponds to at least one of repair or upgrade of the vehicle,
- includes the ID,
- wherein the RECC is operative to provide the ID to a parts order circuit (POC) associated with a seller of vehicle parts,
- wherein the POC is enabled to operate responsive at least in part to the ID to make the PPR accessible to the POC, and the POC is enabled to operate responsive at least in part to the PPR to cause at least one vehicle part corresponding to parts identifying data included in the PPR to be available to a vehicle repair entity (VRE) to install on the vehicle.
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Apparatus usable to cause vehicle parts to be available to at least one of repair or upgrade vehicles, comprising:
- a repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC), wherein the RECC is operative responsive at least in part to receipt of vehicle identifying data corresponding to a vehicle to cause
- determination of a plurality of vehicle parts usable to at least one of repair or upgrade the vehicle,
- generation of a needed parts record (NPR), wherein the NPR includes parts identifying data usable to identify at least some of the plurality of vehicle parts,
- wherein the RECC is operative to communicate with a remote parts pricing circuit (PPC),
- wherein the RECC is operative responsive at least in part to communication with the PPC and the NPR to cause
- a parts pricing record (PPR) to be produced, wherein the PPR includes parts identifying data and respective price data for at least some of the parts corresponding to the parts identifying data included in the NPR, and
- wherein a unique identifier (ID) is associated with the PPR,
- responsive at least in part to the PPR included data, generation of a repair order record corresponding to the vehicle,
- communication of at least one of the repair order record and the ID to a remote parts order circuit (POC), wherein the POC is associated with a seller of vehicle parts,
- wherein the POC is enabled to operate responsive to at least in part to the ID to make the PPR included data accessible to the POC, and the POC is enabled to operate responsive at least in part to the PPR included data to cause at least one part corresponding to the PPR included data to be available to a vehicle repair entity (VRE) to install on the vehicle.
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Apparatus usable to cause vehicle parts to be available to at least one of repair or upgrade vehicles, comprising:
- a repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC), wherein the RECC is operative responsive at least in part to receipt of vehicle identifying data corresponding to a vehicle to cause
- determination of a plurality of vehicle parts usable to at least one of repair and upgrade the vehicle,
- generation of a needed parts record (NPR) data, wherein the NPR data includes parts identifying data usable to identify at least some of the plurality of the vehicle parts,
- wherein the RECC is operative to communicate with a remote parts pricing circuit (PPC),
- wherein the RECC is operative responsive at least in part to the communication with the PPC and the NPR data to cause
- parts pricing record (PPR) data to be produced, wherein the PPR data includes parts identifying data and respective price data for at least some of the parts corresponding to the parts identifying data included in the NPR data, and
- a unique identifier (ID) to be associated with the PPR data, generation of repair order record data corresponding to the vehicle,
- communication of at least one of the repair order record data and the ID to a remote parts order circuit (POC), wherein the POC is associated with a seller of vehicle parts,
- wherein the at least one of repair order record data and the ID are usable by the POC to make the PPR data accessible to the POC, and the POC is enabled to operate responsive at least in part to the PPR data to cause at least one part corresponding to the PPR data to be available to a vehicle repair entity (VRE) to install on the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.