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US 11,238,250 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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A method comprising:
- a) operating at least one repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC) responsive at least in part to vehicle identifying data corresponding to a vehicle to
- determine at least one vehicle part usable to at least one of repair or upgrade the vehicle,
- generate a needed parts record (NPR) wherein the NPR includes parts identifying data usable to identify at least one of the vehicle parts,
- b) responsive at least in part to operation of the RECC, communicating with a parts pricing circuit (PPC) to cause a parts pricing record (PPR) to be produced, wherein the PPR includes parts identifying data and respective price data for at least one of the vehicle parts corresponding to the parts identifying data included in the NPR, wherein the PPR has an associated unique identifier (ID),
- c) responsive at least in part to the PPR included data, generating responsive to operation of the RECC a repair order record corresponding to the vehicle,
- d) receiving the ID by at least one of the RECC and PPC from a parts order circuit (POC), wherein responsive at least in part to the ID the at least one of the RECC and the PPC is enabled to make the PPR included data accessible to the POC,
- wherein the POC is enabled to operate responsive at least in part to the PPR included data to cause at least one vehicle 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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A method comprising:
- a) operating at least one repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC) responsive at least in part to vehicle identifying data, to determine a plurality of vehicle parts usable to repair or upgrade a vehicle,
- b) generating responsive to operation of the RECC a needed parts record (NPR), wherein the NPR includes parts identifying data usable to identify the plurality of vehicle parts,
- c) operating the RECC to communicate with a parts pricing circuit (PPC),
- d) responsive at least in part to the NPR and the communication in (c), operating at least one of the RECC and the PPC 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 vehicle parts corresponding to the parts identifying data included in the NPR, and
- a unique identifier (ID) to be associated with the NPR,
- e) responsive at least in part to the PPR, operating the RECC to generate a repair order record, wherein the repair order record corresponds to the repair or upgrade of the vehicle and includes the ID,
- f) receiving the ID by at least one of the RECC and the PPC from a parts order circuit (POC), wherein responsive at least in part to the ID the at least one of the RECC and the PPC is enabled to make the PPR included data accessible to the POC,
- wherein the POC is enabled to operate responsive at least in part to the PPR included data to cause at least one vehicle 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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A method comprising:
- a) operating at least one repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC) responsive at least in part to vehicle identifying data corresponding to a vehicle to be at least one of repaired and upgraded, to determine a plurality of vehicle parts usable to at least one of repair and upgrade the vehicle,
- b) responsive at least in part to operation of the RECC, generating needed parts record (NPR) data, wherein the NPR data includes parts identifying data usable to identify at least some of the plurality of vehicle parts,
- c) responsive at least in part to the NPR data, and communication between the RECC and a parts pricing circuit (PPC), operating at least one of the RECC and the PPC to
- produce parts pricing record (PPR) data, wherein the PPR data includes parts identifying data and respective price data for at least some of the vehicle parts corresponding to the parts identifying data included in the NPR data, and
- cause a unique identifier (ID) to be associated with at least one of the PPR data and the NPR data,
- d) generating repair order record data corresponding to the vehicle responsive at least in part to operation of the RECC,
- e) receiving the ID by at least one of the RECC and the PPC from a parts order circuit (POC), wherein responsive at least in part to the received ID the at least one of the RECC and the PPC is enabled to make at least some of the PPR data accessible to the POC,
- wherein the POC is enabled to operate responsive at least in part to the accessible PPR data to cause at least one vehicle part corresponding to the accessible 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.