Comprehensive and standardized method of estimating pricing for repair of automobile dent damage by Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) and/or Push-to-Paint (PTP) techniques
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Abstract
A computer-based system, method and computer program product for estimating the repair costs for paintless dent removal and ready-to-paint dent repair for irregular dents in automobiles, which includes a user interface, a dent estimator database and computer program that matches variable information received from a user with corresponding values in the dent estimator database and calculates an estimated cost for repair of dents on an automobile. The system, method and product allows an untrained person to accurately estimate the cost of paintless dent repair for irregular shaped dents.
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1. (canceled)
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2. A computer-implemented method for estimating the cost of repairing a dent using PDR, comprising:
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receiving the make and model of a damaged vehicle; receiving the location of the dent on the vehicle; receiving the two-dimensional length and width of a dent; determining the estimated cost to fix the dent using PDR; and presenting the estimate to the user. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer system comprising
at least one user device; -
means for receiving user generated information about a dent; means for storing information about PDR dent repair times and costs based on historical repairs, means for processing program instructions to estimate the costs of repairing said dent based on said historical information; and means for sending the repair estimate back to the user device. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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