Patent ID: 8392334

Claim:
A vehicle scoring system, comprising: a computer system having a processor that supports operation of a software application, wherein the computer system is configured to receive a request from a user, the request identifying a specific vehicle with only a vehicle identification number, and to communicate the vehicle identification number to a filter module; a data storage module, accessed on the computer system, including a plurality of vehicle data records obtained from at least one of a title information database, a registration information database, a Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) records database, an auction records database, and an accident records database; the filter module, executed on the computer system, comprising: a first filter for obtaining relevant vehicle-related data from the data storage module's plurality of vehicle data records using only the vehicle identification number received in the request, the vehicle-related data comprising a plurality of factors; a second filter for comparing the obtained vehicle-related data of a specific vehicle to the obtained vehicle-related data of comparison vehicles and assigning a numerical value to at least one of the factors comprising the relevant vehicle-related data; and a third filter for weighting and combining the numerical values of the relevant vehicle-related data into a vehicle score for the specific vehicle, wherein weighting is determined by a modeling technique applied to the plurality of data records, wherein combining comprises adding the weighted numerical values; and an output module for reporting an indication of the vehicle score to a user, wherein the indication of the vehicle score is one of a number and a range of numbers from a preselected scale, wherein the preselected scale is at least one of 0 to 100, 0 to 10 and 0% to 100%.