Abstract
No assignee for this patent application has been made.Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“When determining to sell a vehicle, a vehicle owner will trad itionally either go to a dealership to performa trade-in or try to sell the veh icle via various resell vehicle websites, such as Carguru or Craigslist. Theval uation mechanism for the vehicle that is typically used is a service such as Kel ly Blue Book, whichasks general questions about one or more of the following: m ake/model, year, color, mileage, features,accessories and/or vehicle condition. Another way of determining the value of the vehicle is to identifythe various components of the vehicle that the vehicle can be separated into and resold on t he market.Various solutions currently in the art, such as car-parts .com, requi re a large database of historical vehicleinventory and/or historical vehicle co mponent inventory and that provide a limited assessment of thecurrent vehicle c omponent marketplace.”
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