SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ACCESSING AND DECODING VEHICLE MANUFACTURE INFORMATION

• US 20190068713A1
• Filed: 08/23/2018
• Published: 02/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kurt Maletych
• Original Assignee: Kurt Maletych
• Inventors: Maletych, Kurt
• Granted Patent: US 10,498,828 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Systems, methods, and techniques to access and decode vehicle information are provided. The method includes generating a request for a manufacturer server to transmit an option code to a central server based at least on a vehicle identification number received from a client device. The method further includes decoding, at a decoding module operating at the central server, the option code to generate an option that is present on a vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number. The decoding includes mapping, by the decoding module and based on a conversion mapping, the option code to the option accessed at an option code database in communication with the central server and the decoding module. The decoding further includes generating option data including the option. The method further includes transmitting the option data to the client device for display at the client device.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one programmable processor; and

a non-transient machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one programmable processor, causes the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising;

generating, by a central server, a request for a manufacturer server to transmit an option code to the central server, the option code being based at least on a vehicle identification number received at the central server from a client device;

decoding, at a decoding module operating at the central server, the option code transmitted from the manufacturer server to generate an option that is present on a vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number, the decoding comprising;

mapping, by the decoding module and based on a conversion mapping, the option code to the option accessed at an option code database in communication with the central server and the decoding module; and

generating, by the decoding module, option data comprising the option;

transmitting, by the central server to the client device, the option data to the client device for display at the client device.

2. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

updating, based on an update request transmitted from the central server to the manufacturer server, the conversion mapping maintained at the option code database.

3. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

generating, by the central server, value data for the option based at least on a value listing stored at the central sever, the value listing comprising a plurality of values corresponding to a plurality of option codes comprising the option code;

transmitting, by the central server to the client device, the value data to the client device for display at the client device.

4. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

populating, at the client device, a base option display field, the populating comprising;

identifying, by the central server, a base option based at least on the vehicle identification number;

generating, by the central server, base option data based at least on the base option; and

transmitting, by the central server to the client device, the base option data for display at the base option display field.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the base option is identified and transmitted to the client device without sending the request or the vehicle identification number to the manufacturer server.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the option data to the client device comprises populating an option display field with a graphical indication identifying the option based on the option data.

7. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

calculating, based on the option data, a value for the vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein calculating the value comprises:

comparing the option data of the vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number with option data of other vehicles;

determining, based on the comparing, whether any of the other vehicles satisfy a similarity threshold with the vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number; and

transmitting, to the client device, information associated with vehicles that satisfy the similarity threshold.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the similarity threshold is based on a number of options from the other vehicles that match options of the vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein calculating the value further comprises searching, based on the vehicle identification number, a third party database for the other vehicles.

11. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating, by a central server, a request for a manufacturer server to transmit an option code to the central server, the option code being based at least on a vehicle identification number received at the central server from a client device;

decoding, at a decoding module operating at the central server, the option code transmitted from the manufacturer server to generate an option that is present on a vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number, the decoding comprising;

mapping, by the decoding module and based on a conversion mapping, the option code to the option accessed at an option code database in communication with the central server and the decoding module; and

generating, by the decoding module, option data comprising the option;

transmitting, by the central server to the client device, the option data to the client device for display at the client device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

updating, based on an update request transmitted from the central server to the manufacturer server, the conversion mapping maintained at the option code database.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

generating, by the central server, value data for the option based at least on a value listing stored at the central sever, the value listing comprising a plurality of values corresponding to a plurality of option codes comprising the option code;

transmitting, by the central server to the client device, the value data to the client device for display at the client device.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

populating, by the central server at the client device, a base option display field, the populating comprising;

identifying, by the central server, a base option based at least on the vehicle identification number;

generating, by the central server, base option data based at least on the base option; and

transmitting, by the central server to the client device, the base option data for display at the base option display field.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the base option is identified and transmitted to the client device without sending the request or the vehicle identification number to the manufacturer server.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmitting the option data to the client device comprises populating an option display field with a graphical indication identifying the option based on the option data.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

calculating, by the central server and based on the option data, a value for the vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein calculating the value comprises:

comparing the option data of the vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number with option data of other vehicles;

determining, based on the comparing, whether any of the other vehicles satisfy a similarity threshold with the vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number; and

transmitting, to the client device, information associated with vehicles that satisfy the similarity threshold.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein calculating the value further comprises searching, based on the vehicle identification number, a third party database for the other vehicles.

20. A non-transitory computer program product storing instructions that, when executed by at least one programmable processor, cause at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:

generating, by a central server, a request for a manufacturer server to transmit an option code to the central server, the option code being based at least on a vehicle identification number received at the central server from a client device;

decoding, at a decoding module operating at the central server, the option code transmitted from the manufacturer server to generate an option that is present on a vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number, the decoding comprising;

mapping, by the decoding module and based on a conversion mapping, the option code to the option accessed at an option code database in communication with the central server and the decoding module; and

generating, by the decoding module, option data comprising the option;

transmitting, by the central server to the client device, the option data to the client device for display at the client device.