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Vehicle insurance status display system

OwnerDarryl Mark Hunsakerinventor

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Abstract

A Vehicle Insurance Status Display System (VISDS) method and system of providing readily perceivable access to selected key information regarding the insurance status of a vehicle. The VISDS provides an at least partially symbolized representation of the germane informational content of a vehicle owner's manner of insuring that vehicle in accordance with the relevant laws of the relevant jurisdiction that the vehicle is registered in. The at least partially symbolized representation is prepared in the form of a display for exhibiting on the vehicle. The manners of symbolizing utilize perception facilitating modes to enhance the readiness of perception of the selected key information, and in particular the germane informational content of the insurance status date for that vehicle, which is the date through which the vehicle is properly insured.

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Dependent claims

A method of displaying information relating to a vehicle's insurance status comprising the steps of:

depicting, in at least one manner prescribed for facilitating perception of said display's informational content by a suitable display perceiver, at least a first and second indicator elements in an affixable exhibit suitable for securing to the vehicle, said first indicator element including at least a first piece of information that relates to an insurance policy for the vehicle, said second indicator element including at least a second piece of information that relates to the insurance policy for the vehicle, said depicting involving selectively portraying said indicator elements in selected perception facilitating modes, said perception facilitating modes providing capabilities of facilitating human perception of said insurance policy related pieces of information, at least a first of said perception facilitating modes being capable of providing a differing degree of perception facilitating than at least a second of said perception facilitating modes, said depicting appearing from the vehicle;
attributing said insurance policy related pieces of information with differing degrees of significance, and determining at least one association between:
(a) at least one of the degrees of significance attributed to at least one of said first and second insurance policy related pieces of information, and
(b) at least one of the degrees of perception facilitating provided by at least one of said first and second perception facilitating modes;
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selecting one of said first and second perception facilitating modes for portraying said first indicator element and the other of said first and second perception facilitating modes for portraying said second indicator element, said selecting of perception facilitating mode for portraying the indicator elements being made in accordance with at least one of the determined associations between said degrees of significance and said degrees of perception facilitating.

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A method of indicating a vehicle's insurance status comprising the steps of:

ascertaining an amount of information sufficient to indicate a given vehicle's insurance status, said sufficient amount of information being subdivisible into insurance status datums, each of said insurance status datums denoting at least one aspect of a vehicle's insurance status;
forming an insurance status data set containing at least said sufficient amount of vehicle insurance status indicating information, said insurance status data set including at least one of said insurance status datums;
symbolizing, in at least one manner prescribed for facilitating perception of said display's informational content by a suitable display perceiver, at least a portion of at least one insurance status datum's informational content with at least one visual signifier, said symbolizing involving at least one perception facilitating mode which enhances the readiness of human visual perception of the informational content symbolized by said visual signifier;
and
representing said insurance status data set with an arrangement of said visual signifiers in an affixable exhibit suitable for securing to the vehicle, said arrangement of the visual signifiers forming a display that appears from the vehicle and enhances the readiness of visual perception of the insurance status data set.

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A system for indicating a vehicle's insurance status comprising:

a display of at least one, and generally a plurality of, visual signifiers, each of said visual signifiers symbolizing at least a portion of an insurance status datum's informational content, said insurance status datums being a subdivision of an insurance status data set, said insurance status data set including at least an amount of information sufficient to indicate a vehicle's insurance status, each of said insurance status datums denoting at least one aspect of the vehicle's insurance status;
at least one of the visual signifiers symbolizing involving at least one perception facilitating mode, said perception facilitating modes enhancing a readiness of human visual perception of the informational content symbolized by said at least one visual signifier;
said display apparent from the vehicle and representing the insurance status data set with an arrangement of said visual signifiers, said arrangement of the visual signifiers potentially further enhancing the readiness of visual perception of the insurance status data set.

A system for providing a readily perceivable representation of a vehicle's insurance status comprising:

a display of visual signifiers, said display apparent from a vehicle so as to be visible from said vehicle's exterior, each of said visual signifiers symbolically denoting at least one aspect of the display's informational content and each of said visual signifiers corresponding to at least one datum of information that relates to said vehicle's insurance status, at least one of said visual signifiers' symbolizing being effected in the manner of at least one perception facilitating mode;
said perception facilitating modes being manners of symbolizing representations, said representations utilizing at least one symbolizing technique that enhances the readiness of human perception of the datum of insurance status related information that the visual signifier denotes, said symbolizing techniques involving at least one way of denoting information that does not involve solely presenting said information in generally uniform alphanumeric characters.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Application: 11/647,665Filed 29 Dec 2006 · us provisional application
Priority: 30 Dec 2005
Published: US 2007/0151133 A15 Jul 2007
Granted: 24 Sep 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

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G09F 3/02
Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means ; Seals; Postage or like stamps: forms or constructions
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Application60/755,729Us provisional application · filed 30 Dec 2005
US 2007/0151133 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Jul 2007
US 8,543,424 B2This patent

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