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Patent No.:

US 9741066 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2014
Applicant:

Carfax, Inc., Centreville, VA (US);

Inventors:

William Eager, Ashburn, VA (US);

Scott Robert Fredericks, Arlington, VA (US);

Pia S. Miralao, Vienna, VA (US);

Mark D. Andringa, Vienna, VA (US);

Steve Korman, Bethesda, MD (US);

Matthew Mountz, Reston, VA (US);

Assignee:

Carfax, Inc., Centreville, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0613 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory, determining a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which the dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report, presenting a summary report to a dealer, the summary report including information about at least one of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles, receiving a selection to purchase a vehicle history report for at least one of the vehicles in the summary report, and providing the vehicle history report corresponding to the selection to the dealer.


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