Repair monitor
OwnerGregory Bacoinventor
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Abstract
This invention relates to a method for providing communication between a mobile computing device and a vehicle service facility. Further, the method is adapted identify vehicle service time and display a vehicle service alert on the user device. Further, the user can send a vehicle service request to at least one service vendor device provided by the mobile application. The method is adapted to determine the status of the vehicle service process in real time and display the status to the user upon receiving a request to view a vehicle service status.
Claims7
A method for checking vehicle service status of a user vehicle located on at least one service vendor facility, the method comprising:
- a) receiving a vehicle service request from a user device by a service vendor device through a server via wireless communication;
- b) creating a vehicle service process for the user vehicle based on the vehicle service request, wherein the vehicle service process includes a plurality of vehicle service events for the user vehicle based on the vehicle service request;
- c) storing the plurality of vehicle service event to a database;
- d) receiving status for each of the plurality of vehicle service events of the user vehicle from the vendor device present at the vendor facility;
- e) storing the status for each of the plurality of vehicle service events of the user vehicle in the database;
- f) receiving a request from the user device to view a vehicle service status;
- g) retrieving the status for each of the plurality of vehicle service events from the database;
- h) transmitting the status for each of the plurality of vehicle service events to the user device;
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- i) displaying the status for each of the plurality of vehicle service events on the user device.
A system for enabling a user to check repaired progress of a vehicle at a service station, comprising:
- a) a user device that will create a vehicle service request at a selected service station;
- b) a service station device that will receive the vehicle service request from the user device;
- c) a network server for enabling the user device to communicate with the service station device by wireless communication;
- d) whereby, the service station device will generate a plurality of vehicle service events to be completed by the service station to properly fix the vehicle of the user;
- c) whereby the plurality of vehicle service events are stored on the service station device;
- d) whereby as the service station completes each of the plurality of vehicle service events on the vehicle, the service station device will each time be updated with the completed vehicle service event, and then the service station device will send, through the network server, each of the updates to the user device thus displaying each of the one of the plurality of vehicle service events that have been completed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.