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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2014
Carfax, Inc., Centreville, VA (US);
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);
Carfax, Inc., Centreville, VA (US);
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.