Patent ID: 6721687
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method for enabling a customer to remotely evaluate an electronic device without the need of providing any specific instrumentation, hardware, or software by the customer at the customer location, comprising the steps of(a) receiving at a remote evaluation site a request by the customer to evaluate a particular electronic device at the customer location over a computer network; (b) in response to the request, providing from the remote evaluation site to the customer location a request for specific data; (c) then submitting the requested specific data by the customer to the remote evaluation site over the computer network for use in the evaluation of the electronic device at the remote evaluation site; (d) conducting an evaluation of the electronic device using the specific date and using an automatic electronic device evaluation system located at the remote evaluation site; and (e) then sending real-time evaluation results of the electronic device that is being tested in step (d) over the computer network from the remote evaluation site back to the customer.