Product warranty registration system and method
OwnerElliot Kleininventor
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Abstract
A method for obtaining warranty registration of products, facilitating return of lost products, and expediting warranty service on defective products comprising providing a unique identifier on or within each product; providing a lost and found system comprising the steps of marking each product with return instructions and a reward offer to any person who finds said product after it has been lost; and offering to return each product to a registered owner in the event said product is lost and returned by said person who finds it if said owner provides data comprising owner identification and date said product was purchased at retail; providing said data to a manufacturer or other warrantor in order to register said warranty.
Claims16
A method for expediting warranty service on defective products comprising:
- providing a unique identifier on or within each product, the unique identifier electronically recorded in a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) transponder;
- providing consumer purchaser or owner identification and retail purchase date data to a manufacturer or other warrantor;
- wherein the manufacturer or other warrantor registers a warranty with respect to the product upon receiving the data;
- providing means to read the unique identifier at courier service locations;
- and providing a web server computer system which, upon reading a unique identifier on a defective product which is picked up by the courier service or brought to a courier service location, authorizes the courier service to deliver the defective product to a warranty return location or indicates that the warranty is not in force.
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