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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2002
William Kress Bodin, Austin, TX (US);
Bryan William Clark, Londonberry, NJ (US);
Albert Chung-chee Kwok, Fremont, CA (US);
John Richard Del Pizzo, Jr., Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Wojciech T. Stryjewski, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
David Patrick Huff, Cary, NC (US);
Derral Charles Thorson, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Karasick, Austin, TX (US);
William Kress Bodin, Austin, TX (US);
Bryan William Clark, Londonberry, NJ (US);
Albert Chung-Chee Kwok, Fremont, CA (US);
John Richard Del Pizzo, Jr., Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Wojciech T. Stryjewski, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
David Patrick Huff, Cary, NC (US);
Derral Charles Thorson, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Karasick, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An opportunity server searches for potential vehicle repair transaction providers by receiving a signal from a mobile system indicating a need for a transaction with a business entity responsive to an on-board diagnostic detection of a real-time fault condition resulting in recording of a Diagnostic Trouble Code; automatically issuing requests for bids for the transaction to provider parties located in a first potential geographic point for repair service indicating estimated times of arrival at each geographic point; receiving offers from the provider parties; automatically coalescing the offers by screening to meet user preferences, and modifying and organizing into a format for uniform presentation to a user; presenting the coalesced offers to an operator of the mobile system; and automatically performing enterprise resource planning for a user-selected business transaction.