Systems and methods for calculating a uniqueness rating for a vehicle

• US 9,063,943 B1
• Filed: 11/23/2011
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Original Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Inventors: Smith, Arthur Quentin
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoang, Son T
• Application Number:
  US13/304,096
• Time in Patent Office: 1,308 Days
• Field of Search: 707/748, 707/758
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/148 File search processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2458 Special types of queries, e.g. statistical queries, fuzzy queries or distributed queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0278 Product appraisal
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Systems and methods for calculating a uniqueness rating for a vehicle may include a user preference module to receive user preference data for calculating a uniqueness rating of a vehicle, the user preference data comprising a social media preference that indicates a number of levels to traverse of a user'"'"'s social graph; a retrieval module to retrieve vehicle characteristics for a set of vehicles in the user'"'"'s social graph based on the social media preference; a calculation module to calculate the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on a comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics in the set of vehicles; and a presentation module to present the uniqueness rating to the user based on the user preference data.

Claims

1. A method for calculating a uniqueness rating for a vehicle comprising:

receiving from a user, via a computing system with memory and a processor, user preference data for calculating the uniqueness rating of the vehicle, the user preference data comprising a social media preference that indicates a number of levels to traverse of the user'"'"'s social graph, wherein the user'"'"'s social graph is representative a friend of the user on a social media platform;

retrieving vehicle characteristics for a set of vehicles in the user'"'"'s social graph based on the received social media preference;

calculating, via the processor, the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on a comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics in the set of vehicles; and

presenting the uniqueness rating to the user based on the user preference data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle characteristics retrieved are limited by the user preference data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user preference data comprises data indicating the uniqueness rating is to be published on the social media platforms.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving vehicle characteristics for the set of vehicles in the user'"'"'s social graph based on the social media preferences comprises:

retrieving make and model characteristics of vehicles in the set of vehicles.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on the comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics in the set of vehicles comprises:

determining a frequency of a vehicle characteristic of the vehicle in the set of vehicles.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein presenting the uniqueness rating to the user based on the user preference data comprises:

displaying on a display device the frequency of the vehicle characteristics.

7. A method for calculating a uniqueness rating of a vehicle comprising:

receiving from a user, via a computing system with memory and a processor, user preference data for calculating the uniqueness rating of the vehicle, the user preference data comprising a social media preference that indicates a number of levels to be traversed of the user'"'"'s social graph, wherein the user'"'"'s social graph is representative of an acquaintance of the user on a social media platform;

retrieving vehicle characteristics for a set of vehicles in the user'"'"'s social graph based on the received social media preference;

calculating, via the processor, the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on a comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics of the set of vehicles; and

presenting the uniqueness rating to a user based on the user preference data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the vehicle characteristics retrieved are limited by the user preference data.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein user preference data comprises data indicating the uniqueness rating is to be published on the social media platform.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of retrieving vehicle characteristics for the set of vehicles comprises:

retrieving make and model characteristics of vehicles in the set of vehicles.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of calculating the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on the comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics of the set of vehicles comprises:

determining a frequency of a vehicle characteristic of the vehicle in the set of vehicles.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein presenting the uniqueness rating to the user based on the user preference data comprises:

displaying on a display device the frequency of the vehicle characteristic.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for calculating a uniqueness rating of a vehicle, which when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

receive user preference data from a user, for calculating the uniqueness rating of the vehicle, the user preference data comprising a social media preference that indicates a number of levels to traverse of the user'"'"'s social graph, wherein the user'"'"'s social graph is representative of people, including the user, that follow other people'"'"'s social feeds on a social media platform;

retrieve vehicle characteristics for a set of vehicles in the user'"'"'s social graph based on the received social media preference;

calculate the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on a comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics in the set of vehicles; and

present the uniqueness rating to the user based on the user preference data.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the vehicle characteristics retrieved are limited by the user preference data.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the user preference data comprises data indicating the uniqueness rating is to be published on the social media platform.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the instructions to retrieve vehicle characteristics for the set of vehicles in the user'"'"'s social graph based on the social media preferences comprise instructions to:

retrieve make and model characteristics of vehicles in the set of vehicles.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the instructions to calculate the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on the comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics in the set of vehicles comprise instructions to:

determine a frequency of a vehicle characteristic of the vehicle in the set of vehicles.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions to present the uniqueness rating to the user based on the user preference data comprise instructions to:

displaying on a display device the frequency of the vehicle characteristics.

19. A system for calculating a uniqueness rating of a vehicle comprising:

a computer with memory and a processor;

a user preference module, running on the computer, to receive user preference data from a user for calculating the uniqueness rating of the vehicle, the user preference data comprising a social media preference that indicates a number of levels to traverse of the user'"'"'s social graph, wherein the user'"'"'s social graph is representative of at least one relationship between the user and other people on a social network;

a retrieval module to retrieve vehicle characteristics for a set of vehicles in the user'"'"'s social graph based on the social media preference;

a calculation module to calculate, via the computer'"'"'s processor, the uniqueness rating for the vehicle based on a comparison between characteristics of the vehicle and the vehicle characteristics in the set of vehicles; and

a presentation module to present the uniqueness rating to the user based on the user preference data.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the vehicle characteristics retrieved are limited by the user preference data.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the user preference data comprises user preference data indicating the uniqueness rating is to be published on the social network.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the retrieval module retrieves make and model characteristics of vehicles in the set of vehicles.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the calculation module determines a frequency of a vehicle characteristic of the vehicle in the set of vehicles.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the presentation module is to display on a display device the frequency of the vehicle characteristics.