Patent ID: 8015209

Claim:
A system for tracking assets purchased by a consumer, and managing future services to be performed for the assets, the system comprising: processor readable media operatively coupled to one or more processors; at least one database provided on the processor readable media, the at least one database storing at least: electronic asset information including information representing assets that are purchased and owned by a plurality of consumers; electronic asset category information including information representing a plurality of categories of the assets; electronic service information including information representing at least one future service to be respectively performed for at least one of the assets; electronic identification information including information representing at least one of a plurality of consumers; electronic vendor information including information related to vendors that sell the assets to the plurality of consumers, service the assets after the assets are purchased by the plurality of consumers, or both sell and service the assets for the assets that are purchased by the plurality of consumers; the processor readable media having instructions for causing the following steps to be performed by the one or more processors: receive over a communication network from a first user computing device electronic transaction information, wherein the electronic transaction information includes information representing an acquisition of at least one asset, a vendor identifier representing at least one vendor to provide at least one future service to be performed for the at least one asset, and an identifier representing the consumer who purchased the at least one asset; receive, over the communication network from a second user computing device associated with the at least one vendor to provide the at least one future service, electronic service information that represents the at least one future service to be performed for the at least one asset; determine based on at least the electronic transaction information and the electronic service information that a first service is scheduled for the at least one asset at a first time; and transmit, over the communication network, an electronic notification to the first user computing device that the first service is scheduled, wherein the transmitting occurs at a second time relative to the first time.