Method and system for managing a fleet of vehicles
First Claim
1. A system for determining a normalized sales price as of a time period for a representative member of a selected vehicle type group, the system including a computer configured to access a database, the database storing historical sales data for members of said group, said historical sales data including actual sales prices, and said computer being further configured to normalize each of said actual sales prices to a representative member of said group and then combine said normalized actual sales prices to determine at least one normalized sales price for said representative member.
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Abstract
A system for providing a user with historical sales data for a plurality of vehicles comprising a fleet, the system comprising: (a) a database configured to store actual sales data for a plurality of vehicles that have previously been sold; and (b) a computer in communication with the database, the computer being configured to create a page for display to a user, the page including a display of a plurality of historical sales prices for at least one vehicle type that is similar to a user-selected vehicle type, wherein the displayed historical sales prices are calculated from the stored actual sales data and comprise historical sales prices for the at least one similar vehicle type that have been normalized to an average time of sale odometer reading. Also disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method for selecting which of a plurality of vehicles within a fleet are to be deleted from the fleet; the method comprising: (a) displaying, on an electronic page presented to a computer user, a value analysis for at least one type of vehicle within a rental vehicle fleet; (b) providing at least one link on the electronic page for selection by the user to initiate a deletion from the fleet of at least one fleet vehicle corresponding to the at least one vehicle type; and (c) responsive to user selection of the at least one link, displaying a list of fleet vehicles for selectable deletion from the fleet by the user, the listed fleet vehicles corresponding to vehicles of the at least one vehicle type.
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80 Claims
- 1. A system for determining a normalized sales price as of a time period for a representative member of a selected vehicle type group, the system including a computer configured to access a database, the database storing historical sales data for members of said group, said historical sales data including actual sales prices, and said computer being further configured to normalize each of said actual sales prices to a representative member of said group and then combine said normalized actual sales prices to determine at least one normalized sales price for said representative member.
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8. A method for determining a normalized sales price as of a time period for a representative member of a selected vehicle type group, the method comprising:
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accessing stored historical sales data for members of said group, said historical sales data including actual sales prices;
normalizing each of said actual sales prices to a representative member of said group; and
combining said normalized actual sales prices to determine at least one normalized actual sales price for said representative member. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for providing a user with historical sales data for a plurality of vehicles comprising a fleet, the system comprising:
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a database configured to store actual sales data for a plurality of vehicles that have previously been sold; and
a computer in communication with the database, the computer being configured to create a page for display to a user, the page including a display of a plurality of historical sales prices for at least one vehicle type that is similar to a user-selected vehicle type, wherein the displayed historical sales prices are calculated from the stored actual sales data and comprise historical sales prices for the at least one similar vehicle type that have been normalized to an average time of sale odometer reading. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An apparatus for providing a user with historical sales data for a plurality of vehicles comprising a fleet, the apparatus comprising:
a computer in communication with a database, the database being configured to store actual sales data for a plurality of vehicles that have previously been sold, wherein the computer is configured to create a page for display to a user, the page including a display of a plurality of historical sales prices for at least one vehicle type that is similar to a user-selected vehicle type, wherein the displayed historical sales prices are calculated from the stored actual sales data and comprise historical sales prices for the at least one similar vehicle type that have been normalized to an average time of sale odometer reading. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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55. A method for a providing a user with historical sales data related to a plurality of vehicles comprising a fleet, the method comprising:
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receiving input from the user indicative of a vehicle type;
for each of a plurality of previously sold vehicles corresponding to the selected vehicle type, determining an actual sales price and an actual time of sale odometer reading therefor;
determining an average time of sale odometer reading from at least a plurality of the determined actual time of sale odometer readings;
normalizing at least a plurality of the determined actual sales prices to the determined average time of sale odometer reading;
averaging the normalized sales prices together; and
displaying the average of the normalized sales prices to the user. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61)
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62. A computer-implemented method for selecting which of a plurality of vehicles within a fleet are to be deleted from the fleet;
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displaying, on an electronic page presented to a computer user, a value analysis for at least one type of vehicle within a vehicle fleet;
providing at least one link on the electronic page for selection by the user to initiate a deletion from the fleet of at least one fleet vehicle corresponding to the at least one vehicle type; and
responsive to user selection of the at least one link, displaying a list of fleet vehicles for selectable deletion from the fleet by the user, the listed fleet vehicles corresponding to vehicles of the at least one vehicle type. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71)
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72. A method for creating a group of similar vehicle types to facilitate a historical sales price analysis of similar vehicles within a fleet of vehicles, the method comprising:
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receiving an identification from user of at least one vehicle type;
receiving input from the user that indicates each identified vehicle type is deemed by the user to be similar to another vehicle type; and
responsive to the received user input, creating a vehicle type group comprising each identified vehicle type and the another vehicle type, the created group for use in performing a historical sales analysis of vehicle types that are similar to a user-selected vehicle type. - View Dependent Claims (73, 74, 75, 76)
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77. A system for providing a user with data about a fleet comprising a plurality of vehicles, the apparatus comprising:
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a database configured to store data relating to a plurality of vehicles comprising a fleet, the stored data including an identification of a vehicle classification for each fleet vehicle, the database being updated with vehicle data on a periodic basis, the periodic basis being either a regular periodic basis or an irregular periodic basis;
a computer in communication with the database, the computer being configured to;
process the stored data to (1) determine a total number of vehicles within the fleet, (2) determine a total count of fleet vehicles for each of a plurality of vehicle classifications, and (3) determine a mix percentage for each vehicle classification from the determined total number and the determined total counts, each mix percentage representing how much of the total fleet count is made up of fleet vehicles of a given vehicle class; and
create a page for display to a user that displays the determined total counts and the determined mix percentages together with their corresponding vehicle classes, the displayed counts and mix percentages being current as to the last time the database was updated each time that the page is created and displayed. - View Dependent Claims (78, 79, 80)
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