Patents by Inventor William Eager

William Eager has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9741066
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory, determining a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which the dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report, presenting a summary report to a dealer, the summary report including information about at least one of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles, receiving a selection to purchase a vehicle history report for at least one of the vehicles in the summary report, and providing the vehicle history report corresponding to the selection to the dealer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Carfax, Inc.
    Inventors: William Eager, Scott Robert Fredericks, Pia S. Miralao, Mark D. Andringa, Steve Korman, Matthew Mountz
  • Publication number: 20140289075
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory, determining a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which the dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report, presenting a summary report to a dealer, the summary report including information about at least one of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles, receiving a selection to purchase a vehicle history report for at least one of the vehicles in the summary report, and providing the vehicle history report corresponding to the selection to the dealer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: William EAGER, Scott Robert FREDERICKS, Pia S. MIRALAO, Mark D. ANDRINGA, Steve KORMAN, Matthew MOUNTZ
  • Patent number: 8725584
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory, determining a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which the dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report, presenting a summary report to a dealer, the summary report including information about at least one of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles, receiving a selection to purchase a vehicle history report for at least one of the vehicles in the summary report, and providing the vehicle history report corresponding to the selection to the dealer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Carfax, Inc.
    Inventors: William Eager, Scott Robert Fredericks, Pia S. Miralao, Mark D. Andringa, Steve Korman, Matthew Mountz
  • Publication number: 20080172344
    Abstract: A social network for business-to-business platform using an e-commerce platform and system consolidate a tiered vertical market space by connecting multiple vendors to a target audience or consumer class through an affiliate network. In one embodiment, an affiliate network (200) includes consumer platforms (220), vendor platforms (230) and affiliate platforms (240), all connected via a social network for business-to-business platform (210). The social network for business-to-business platform (210) includes a number of web pages that may include content (213) of interest to the consumers (220), as well as a market place (212) by which consumers (220) can purchase products from the various vendors (230). In addition, consumers (220) may be referred to the platform (210) by the affiliate platforms (240).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: William Eager, Susan Spielman