Patent ID: 11954724
Assignee: INNOVA ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method of listing a plurality of vehicles for sale, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a scheduling server, a plurality of scan request signals from a plurality of vehicle owner electronic devices to schedule scans of a plurality of vehicles associated with the plurality of vehicle owner electronic devices, each vehicle defining a diagnostic function requirement for implementing a diagnostic function on the vehicle, each scan request signal being associated with GPS data;
identifying a plurality of data acquisition and transfer devices (DATs) from a database of DATs that meet the diagnostic function requirements for each of the plurality of vehicles and are located within a predetermined region associated with the GPS data of the scan request signal;
generating, at the scheduling server, in response to receipt of each of the plurality of scan request signals, a tool owner solicitation signal for receipt by a plurality of tool operators having DATs that are identified as meeting the diagnostic function requirements of the plurality of vehicles and are within the predetermined region;
assigning a unique electronic identifier to each of a plurality of diagnostic reports subsequent to generating the tool owner solicitation signal;
receiving a plurality of requests at a sales server to list a plurality of vehicles for sale on an online forum hosted at the sales server, the sales server being in operative communication with a diagnostic server, at least one of the plurality of requests including a corresponding unique electronic identifier previously assigned to a corresponding diagnostic report;
creating a plurality of electronic listings on the online forum, each electronic listing being associated with a received request and being created from a template; and
for the at least one of the plurality of requests including the corresponding unique electronic identifier previously associated to the corresponding diagnostic report, the method further including creating a link to the diagnostic report associated with the unique identifier on the corresponding electronic listing.