Method and system for presenting information for a geographically eligible set of automobile dealerships ranked based on likelihood scores

A vehicle data system for generating an update to a user interface, the comprising:

• a first computing device having a processor and a computer readable storage medium;
• wherein the first computing device is adapted to communicate with a second computing device connected to the first computing device by a distributed computer network;
• wherein the first computing device is adapted to receive data from one or more external data sources connected to the first computing device by the distributed computer network;
• wherein the computer readable storage medium of the first computing device stores one or more instructions executable by the processor to perform:
• storing, in a memory of a vehicle data system embodied in a first computing device prior to receiving an electronic user request, an eligibility table which identifies, for each of a plurality of combinations of location and vehicle make, a corresponding set of eligible dealers;
• generating, by the vehicle data system, a set of weighting coefficients β_i, where i is an index of dealer features, β_i is a weighting coefficient for an ith feature and storing, in the memory of the vehicle data system prior to receiving the user request, the set of weighting coefficients β_i;
• generating, by the vehicle data system, a user interface and providing the user interface to a second computing device that is connected to the first computing device by a distributed computer network, wherein the user interface is adapted to enable input of the user request to the vehicle data system, the user request designating one or more vehicle characteristics and identifying a user location;
• receiving, by the vehicle data system from the second computing device, the user request;
• retrieving, by the vehicle data system from the eligibility table, a first set of eligible dealers corresponding to the location identified by the user request;
• for each of the dealers in the first set of eligible dealers, determining, by the vehicle data system, a corresponding likelihood score using the set of weighting coefficients;
• selecting, by the vehicle data system, at least a portion of the dealers in the first set of eligible dealers based on the corresponding likelihood scores, and further selecting a closest one of the dealers in the first set of eligible dealers;
• and
• generating, by the vehicle data system, a presentation for the user interface including a corresponding display element for each of the selected dealers, and providing the presentation to the second computing device via the distributed computer network to update the user interface.

A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by a computing device embodying a vehicle data system to perform:

• storing, in a memory of a vehicle data system embodied in a first computing device prior to receiving an electronic user request, an eligibility table which identifies, for each of a plurality of combinations of location and vehicle make, a corresponding set of eligible dealers;
• generating, by the vehicle data system, a set of weighting coefficients β_i, where i is an index of dealer features, β_i is a weighting coefficient for an ith feature and storing, in the memory of the vehicle data system prior to receiving the user request, the set of weighting coefficients β_i;
• generating, by the vehicle data system, a user interface and providing the user interface to a second computing device that is connected to the first computing device by a distributed computer network, wherein the user interface is adapted to enable input of the user request to the vehicle data system, the user request designating one or more vehicle characteristics and identifying a user location;
• receiving, by the vehicle data system from the second computing device, the user request;
• retrieving, by the vehicle data system from the eligibility table, a first set of eligible dealers corresponding to the location identified by the user request;
• for each of the dealers in the first set of eligible dealers, determining, by the vehicle data system, a corresponding likelihood score using the set of weighting coefficients;
• selecting, by the vehicle data system, at least a portion of the dealers in the first set of eligible dealers based on the corresponding likelihood scores, and further selecting a closest one of the dealers in the first set of eligible dealers;
• and
• generating, by the vehicle data system, a presentation for the user interface including a corresponding display element for each of the selected dealers, and providing the presentation to the second computing device via the distributed computer network to update the user interface.