INSURANCE VERTICAL MARKET SPECIALIZATION

• US 20100131301A1
• Filed: 06/23/2009
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Great Lakes Incubator, LLC, RCK-IP, LLC
• Original Assignee: Great Lakes Incubator, LLC
• Inventors: Turocy, Gregory, Asquith, Brian, Amin, Himanshu S., Krosky, Ronald Charles, Collopy, Fred, Nard, Craig Allen, Narvaez, Gustavo Arnaldo, Noonan, David, Sharifi Takieh, Seyed Vahid
• Application Number:
  US12/490,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20100131301A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0224 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0265 Vehicular advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

Vertical insurance market specialization is provided where policies can be created based on granular information related to actual usage of an object. The information can be received in real time or near real time, and specific market definitions can be created based on the information. Insurance companies can bid on specific market definitions, and an owner of the object can select coverage. In cases of automobile insurance, route information or other sensed parameters (such as driving behavior) can be provided to define an insurance market for a specific driver. Allowing companies to bid on the specific instances allows for increased competition and lower cost than current blanket solutions.

Claims

1. A system for facilitating vertical market specialization for automobile insurance, comprising:

a travel information component that receives parameters related to a route of an automobile;

a market determination component that defines an insurance market based at least in part on the parameters related to the route of the automobile and transmits the insurance market to a plurality of insurance companies; and

a rate receiving component that obtains one or more insurance policy premium quotes from the plurality of insurance companies based at least in part on the parameters related to the route of the automobile.

2. The system of claim 1, the parameters related to the route of the automobile are received from a user interface.

3. The system of claim 1, the parameters related to the route of the automobile correspond to one or more routes previously traveled by the automobile.

4. The system of claim 3, the travel information component infers a current route of the automobile based at least in part on the parameters and the market determination component defines the insurance market based at least in part on one or more aspects of the current route of the automobile.

5. The system of claim 1, the travel information component further receives one or more parameters related to driving behavior of a driver of the automobile and the market determination component further defines the insurance market based at least in part on one or more of the parameters related to driving behavior.

6. The system of claim 1, the travel information component further receives one or more parameters related to audible noise level in the automobile and the market determination component further defines the insurance market based at least in part on the parameters related to audible noise level in the automobile.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising an advertising subsystem component that communicates with a plurality of advertisers to receive one or more advertisements for presentation and receives the parameters related to the route.

8. The system of claim 7, the advertising subsystem component comprises an advertisement generation component that presents an advertisement to a user interface based at least in part on the route.

9. The system of claim 8, the rate receiving component applies a discount to the one or more insurance policy premium quotes from the plurality of insurance companies based at least in part on the advertisement and renders the one or more insurance policy premium quotes to the user interface for selection thereof.

10. A method that facilitates obtaining vertical market insurance coverage information, comprising:

employing a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored in memory to perform the following acts;

obtaining information regarding a route of an automobile;

defining an insurance market definition based at least in part on the route; and

providing the insurance market definition to one or more insurance companies.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving information and rates related to one or more insurance policies corresponding to the insurance market definition.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving an advertisement related to the information regarding the route;

presenting the advertisement over a user interface; and

discounting the rates related to the one or more insurance policies based at least in part on providing the advertisement.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving the information regarding the route from a user interface.

14. The method of claim 13, the user interface is equipped within the automobile.

15. The method of claim 10, the information regarding the route corresponds to one or more historical tracked routes of the automobile.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising inferring a current route of the automobile based at least in part on the one or more historical tracked routes, defining the insurance market is based at least in part on the current route.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving information related to driving behavior obtained from the automobile, defining the insurance market is further based at least in part on the information related to driving behavior.

18. A system for receiving insurance rates according to a vertical market definition, comprising:

means for receiving one or more parameters related to a route of an automobile;

means for generating an insurance market definition based at least in part on the one or more parameters related to the route of the automobile; and

means for sending the insurance market definition to a plurality of insurance companies.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising means for receiving one or more insurance policy premium quotes from the plurality of insurance companies based at least in part on the one or more parameters related to the route of the automobile.

20. The system of claim 18, the means for receiving the one or more parameters related to the route receives the one or more parameters over a user interface installed in the automobile.