SMART PHONE APPLICATION FOR RETRIEVING AND DISPLAYING VEHICLE HISTORY REPORT INFORMATION

摘要

A system and method for utilizing a hand held electronic device, such as a smart phone to retrieve and display information related to the vehicle history of a vehicle. In particular, the smart phone may be used to take a picture of the vehicle's vehicle identification number (VIN) and upload the VIN to a remote vehicle history database which matches the VIN with stored vehicle history information. The matched vehicle history information is then analyzed to determine a vehicle history status and a corresponding status indicator is illuminated on the smart phone. The indicator may be red, yellow, green to indicate undesirable, cautionary, and clean vehicle history, respectively.

主权项

1. A system for use with a smart phone, the system comprising:
a remote vehicle history database having vehicle history information matched with vehicle identification information, the vehicle history database being configured to generate a vehicle history status signal based on an analysis of vehicle history information associated with specific vehicle identification information, the vehicle history status signal being representative of a clean/inconclusive/undesirable vehicle history; and a computer readable medium downloadable onto the smart phone for configuring the smart phone to:
transmit a vehicle identification signal including vehicle identification information to the remote vehicle history database;receive the vehicle history status signal from the remote database; andgenerate a visual output signal on the smart phone, the visual output signal being representative of the received vehicle history status signal.