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

Claim 0:
1. 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;
receiving a plurality of vehicle data sets from the plurality of DATs at a diagnostic server, each vehicle data set being retrieved from a respective vehicle;
analyzing each data set at the diagnostic server to generate a plurality of diagnostic reports, each diagnostic report being associated with a respective one of the plurality of data sets;
assigning a unique electronic identifier to each diagnostic report;
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 the 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.