Warranty management and analysis system
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1. A warranty management system, comprising:
- a communication unit, a warranty sales unit to manage sales of warranty policies to customers via the communication unit, a service partner enabling unit, to exchange claims data with service partners via the communication unit, a defect analysis unit to analysis claims data stored by the system to identify product defects therein.
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Abstract
A warrantor computer system provides automated support functions that permit new and existing customers to enter into warranty agreements, alter existing warranty agreements or change customer profiles to identify new products subject to warranties. The warranty management system further provides a defect analysis and resolution service that compiles warranty claims for statistical analysis to identify product defects. Additionally, the warranty management system provides a service partner enabling service that manages services of partners performed pursuant to a warranty.
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1. A warranty management system, comprising:
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a communication unit, a warranty sales unit to manage sales of warranty policies to customers via the communication unit, a service partner enabling unit, to exchange claims data with service partners via the communication unit, a defect analysis unit to analysis claims data stored by the system to identify product defects therein. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A warranty management method, comprising:
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exchanging data with a customer terminal representing inquiries and responses pursuant to a warranty sales transaction, responsive to an inquiry, retrieving warranty terms data from a database and transmitting the warranty terms data to the customer terminal, responsive to an inquiry, retrieving warranty pricing data from a database and transmitting the warranty pricing data to the customer terminal, responsive to a purchase inquiry, initiating a sales order process for a selected warranty. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. Computer readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the device to:
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exchange data with a customer terminal representing inquiries and responses pursuant to a warranty sales transaction, responsive to an inquiry, retrieve warranty terms data from a database and transmitting the warranty terms data to the customer terminal, responsive to an inquiry, retrieve warranty pricing data from a database and transmitting the warranty pricing data to the customer terminal, responsive to a purchase inquiry, initiate a sales order process for a selected warranty. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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