Patent ID: 7343330
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for acquisition, evaluation, inventory, distribution, and re-sale of pre-owned recorded data products by a data product re-seller, the method comprising: reading, using a readout device operatively coupled to a programmed electronic processor, data from a data product offered by an owner of the data product; comparing, by means of the programmed electronic processor, data read from the data product with data in a data product information database, the product information database residing on a storage medium operatively coupled to the programmed electronic processor; identifying, by means of the programmed electronic processor, the data product, if the data product is identified as being listed in the data product information database; enumerating, by means of the programmed electronic processor, computing, by means of the programmed electronic processor, a quantitative data integrity rating for the data product using determining, by means of the programmed electronic processor, a purchase price for the data product to be offered by the re-seller to the owner of the data product, the purchase price being determined based on i) the quantitative data integrity rating for the data product, and ii) inventory information for the data product from a data product inventory database, order information for the data product in a data product order database, or previous purchase and re-sale information for the data product from a data product sales database, the data product inventory database, the data product order database, and the data product sales database residing on a storage medium operatively coupled to the programmed electronic processor; updating, by means of the programmed electronic processor and in response to a purchase of the data product from the owner by the re-seller, inventory information for the data product in the data product inventory database; determining, by means of the programmed electronic processor, a re-sale price for the data product to be offered by the re-seller to a buyer of the data product, the re-sale price being determined based on i) the quantitative data integrity rating for the data product, and ii) inventory information for the data product in the data product inventory database, order information for the data product in the data product order database, or purchase and re-sale information for the data product in the data product sales database; and updating, by means of the programmed electronic processor and in response to a re-sale of the data product by the re-seller to the buyer, inventory information for the data product in the data product inventory database, order information for the data product in the data product order database, or purchase and re-sale information for the data product in the data product sales database.