| 摘要 |
Embodiments provide consumers browsing and shopping online for durable goods such as new vehicles with out-the-door prices for user-specified vehicle configurations. A vehicle data system can obtain automotive registration data from various sources, identify true taxes versus fees, process them into separate groups, associate them to vehicle configurations, and persist the associated taxes and fees in a database. This backend process can be done offline, independent of a frontend process that services user requests in real time. A user request containing a user-specified vehicle configuration may be received by the vehicle data system through a website. The vehicle data system may determine an out-the-door price for the user-specified vehicle configuration, the out-the-door price representing a final amount that a consumer is to pay a dealer for the user-specified vehicle configuration and including applicable taxes and fees retrieved from the database. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for determining an out-the-door price on a user-specified vehicle configuration, comprising:
obtaining, by a vehicle data system having a processor and a memory, automotive registration data from sources communicatively connected to the vehicle data system; identifying, by the vehicle data system, taxes versus fees per locality in the automotive registration data; processing, by the vehicle data system, the taxes and the fees into separate groups; associating, by the vehicle data system, the taxes and the fees with a set of vehicle configurations; persisting the taxes and the fees in a database accessible by the vehicle data system; receiving, by the vehicle data system, a user-specified vehicle configuration from a user device communicatively connected to the vehicle data system; determining, by the vehicle data system, a vehicle price for the user-specified vehicle configuration; and determining, by the vehicle data system, an out-the-door price on the user-specified vehicle configuration, the out-the-door price including the vehicle price, taxes retrieved from the database that are applicable to the user-specified vehicle configuration, and fees retrieved from the database that are applicable to the user-specified vehicle configuration, including at least a documentation fee charged by a dealer for the user-specified vehicle configuration, the out-the-door price representing a final amount that a consumer is to pay the dealer for the user-specified vehicle configuration. |
