System and method for generating interpreted damage estimates information

• US 20090150200A1
• Filed: 12/09/2008
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Steven Charles Siessman
• Original Assignee: Steven Charles Siessman
• Inventors: Siessman, Steven Charles
• Application Number:
  US12/316,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20090150200A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005

Abstract

A method and system for generating interpreted damage estimate information. The steps of generating an interpretation of repair operations consists of selecting a interpretation template from a plurality of interpretation templates, reading a damage estimate file, identifying one or more nomenclature in said damage estimate containing repair operations, determining the sections or groups'"'"' contained in said damage estimate file, identifying common section indices for the identified sections or groups, retrieving repair/refinish/replacement parts interpretations that consist of a common section index, related repair/refinish/replacement interpretation, interpreted section header, associated graphical images, and creating a displayable repair interpretation file.

Claims

1. A method for generating interpreted damage estimate information, comprising the steps of identifying a particular interpretation template;

receiving a damage estimate;

identifying records in a database that relate to nomenclature, said records containing data relating to groups or sections related to particular nomenclature, said database having records of nomenclature related to a section or group for a plurality of nomenclature;

identifying nomenclature contained in both said damage estimate and said database determining sections or groups contained in said damage estimate;

identifying records in a database relating to interpretations related to sections or groups for a particular interpretation template, said records containing data relating to interpretations related to a particular section or group, said database having records of interpretations for a plurality of interpretation templates;

identifying interpretations for sections or groups identified in said damage estimate for a particular interpretation template; and

creating an electronically displayable interpreted damage estimate information file.

2. The method of claim 1, further including calculating replacement parts costs relating to particular interpreted sections or groups.

3. The method of claim 1, further including associating graphical images relating to particular interpreted sections or groups.

4. The method of claim 1, further including displaying an electronically displayable file relating to a particular interpreted damage estimate.

5. A computer system for generating interpreted damage estimate information, including:

a receiving module used to receive a damage estimate;

an interpretation module coupled to a database for use in generating interpreted estimate information; and

a user interface module adapted to receive a user request for generating an interpreted damage estimate related to a particular damage estimate.