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System and method for sales generation in conjunction with a vehicle data system

  • US 10,489,809 B2
  • Filed: 02/15/2019
  • Issued: 11/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle data system comprising:

  • a processor;

    a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer code for processing distributed vehicle data, the computer code comprising code for;

    obtaining a set of historical transaction records from a first set of distributed sources, each transaction record is associated with a corresponding vehicle identification number (VIN);

    enhancing the historical transaction records with data collected from a second set of distributed sources by VIN;

    binning the historical transaction records based on at least one vehicle attribute and geography;

    applying a first set of rules to the enhanced historical transaction records to generate a dealer quality score for each dealer in a set of dealers as a function of historical upfront prices offered for vehicles and actual prices at which the vehicles were sold to consumers;

    providing a web page to a client computer, the web page having one or more input fields for a user to provide a user-specified vehicle configuration comprising a set of user-specified vehicle attributes;

    receiving over a network via the web page the set of user-specified vehicle attributes, the set of vehicle attributes;

    generating a responsive web page in response to the user submitting the user-specified vehicle attributes comprising;

    applying a second set of rules to determine a set of selected dealers as a function of a user-specified geography, the user-specified vehicle configuration and the dealer quality scores;

    applying a third set of rules to determine, from the set of selected dealers, a best upfront price corresponding to the user-specified vehicle configuration;

    generating HTML to cause a browser at the client computer to display the best up front price;

    sending the HTML to the client computer.

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