Method and system for identifying and displaying discrepancies in vehicle titles
First Claim
1. A computer method for rapidly identifying and displaying discrepancies in vehicle titles comprising the steps of(a) at intervals gathering recent title transaction data from a plurality of sources indexed by vehicle identification number, said data from different sources having common and different data elements and being organized differently,(b) adding records to a master database having a plurality of transaction standard variable format records indexed by vehicle identification number,(c) selecting all records indexed by the same vehicle identification number,(d) identifying the discrepancies inherent in the individual transaction records selected,(e) identifying the contextual discrepancies which may be determined by comparison of transaction records indexed by the same vehicle identification number, and(f) displaying the title transactions and discrepancies, if any, identified in steps (d) and (e).
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Abstract
A computer method for rapidly identifying and displaying discrepancies in vehicle titles comprises the steps of automatically identifying the discrepancies inherent in individual title transaction records and identifying contextual discrepancies which may be determined by comparison of title transaction records.
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1. A computer method for rapidly identifying and displaying discrepancies in vehicle titles comprising the steps of
(a) at intervals gathering recent title transaction data from a plurality of sources indexed by vehicle identification number, said data from different sources having common and different data elements and being organized differently, (b) adding records to a master database having a plurality of transaction standard variable format records indexed by vehicle identification number, (c) selecting all records indexed by the same vehicle identification number, (d) identifying the discrepancies inherent in the individual transaction records selected, (e) identifying the contextual discrepancies which may be determined by comparison of transaction records indexed by the same vehicle identification number, and (f) displaying the title transactions and discrepancies, if any, identified in steps (d) and (e).
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2. A computer method for rapidly identifying and reporting discrepancies in vehicle titles comprising the steps of
(a) at intervals gathering recent title transaction data from a plurality of sources including at least state title offices, said data indexed by vehicle identification number, said data from different sources having common and different data elements and being organized differently, (b) adding records to a master database having a plurality of variable format transaction records indexed by vehicle identification number, and having unvarying fields for vehicle identification number, source, odometer reading, title type, and transaction date, (c) selecting all records indexed by the same vehicle identification number, (d) identifying the discrepancies inherent in the individual records selected at least by the content of the title type field, (e) identifying the contextual discrepancies which may be determined by comparison of vehicle records indexed by the same vehicle identification number, and (f) displaying the title transactions and discrepancies, if any, identified in steps (d) and (e).
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8. A computer method for rapidly identifying and displaying discrepancies in vehicle titles comprising the steps of
(a) at intervals gathering recent title transaction data from a plurality of sources including state title offices indexed by vehicle identification number, said data from different sources having common and different data elements and being organized differently, (b) adding records to a single master database having a plurality of variable format transaction records indexed by vehicle identification number, and having unvarying fields for vehicle identification number, source, status, odometer reading, title type, and transaction date, the status field comprising a status byte the bits of which are used to store identification of title discrepancies determinable from the data in the entire record, (c) identifying the discrepancies inherent in the individual records at least by the content of the title type field at the time of adding records to the master database and setting the status byte accordingly, (d) selecting all records indexed by the same vehicle identification number and storing them in a record array and sorting the array by the transaction date field, (e) identifying the contextual discrepancies which may be determined by comparison of vehicle records indexed by the same vehicle identification number by comparing each record in the array with the preceding record, and (f) displaying title transactions and discrepancies, if any, identified in steps (c) and (e).
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