Patent ID: 8739059

Claim:
A system for facilitating the inspection of the present physical characteristics of an item by a plurality of human inspectors and the generation of an inspection report pertaining to subjective and/or objective data associated with the item, the system comprising: a means for providing a report template to a mobile device, the report template having a plurality of fields for carrying and/or receiving information from a human inspector, wherein the report template is customized based on the type of inspection to be performed and one or more of the plurality of fields is pre-populated with data associated with a unique identifier of an item to be inspected; at least one mobile device for receiving and rendering a report template for the benefit of a human inspector who is actively inspecting the present physical characteristics of an item, wherein the mobile device is operable to: populate a field of a report template based on an input of inspection data from a human inspector; generate a preliminary report from the populated report template; and transmit the preliminary report to a central report generator; a central report generator operable to receive a plurality of said preliminary reports and generate a master inspection report, wherein each of the plurality of preliminary reports contain inspection data associated with the same inspected item; a consistency checker that is operable to compare (1) related inspection data comprised within the plurality of preliminary reports and (2) additional third party related data associated with the same inspected item and optionally items substantially similar to the inspected item, wherein any related inspection data and any additional third party related data that are disparate are converted into a system standard compatible format determined by the central report generator, and wherein, if the compared data are contradictory, the consistency checker is operable to flag the related inspection information; and an analyzer configured to perform statistical analysis of the related inspection data and/or the additional third party related data such that the statistical analysis yields correlation values, the consistency checker further configured to utilize the correlation values in the comparison.