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Transacting e-commerce and conducting e-business related to identifying and procuring automotive service and vehicle replacement parts

  • US 6,389,337 B1
  • Filed: 05/03/2000
  • Issued: 05/14/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for wirelessly collecting a plurality of data associated with a vehicle and for using collected said plurality of data to query a plurality of databases, or a plurality of global network based data processing resources for the purpose of servicing said vehicle, including determining automotive replacement parts for said vehicle comprising:

  • an in-vehicle device interconnected with said vehicle, said in-vehicle device having a vehicle engine control system interface for interfacing said in-vehicle device to said vehicle engine control system wherein, said in-vehicle device monitors said vehicle engine, said in-vehicle device having a wireless transceiver for wirelessly data communicating between said in-vehicle device and a plurality of data communicating devices; and

    a communication interface device for data communicating wirelessly with a plurality of data communicating devices, and for receiving said plurality of data from said in-vehicle device, said communication interface device having a data communication connection with a personal computer, said communication interface device is an Internet appliance;

    wherein, said plurality of databases are accessible by said communication interface device, or accessible by said personal computer;

    wherein said vehicle by way of said in-vehicle device data communicates said plurality of data to said communication interface device for the purpose of accessing and querying results from said plurality of databases or from said global network based data processing resources, and for associating said plurality of data with a plurality of data elements and storing the result in a database.

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