Electronic management of license data

US11694213B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · US

Inventors

• Shawn Everly · Bloomington, US
• Randall J. Kirchner · Normal, US
• Steve Schierholz · Bloomington, US
• Joseph Waldmann · Bloomington, US
• Nancy Warden · Cumming, US
• William T. Malone · Decatur, US
• Troy Steffen · Fairbury, US
• Alex George Sarris · Eureka, US
• Matthew Jared Schroeder · Bloomington, US
• Matthew Jeffrey Wilkens · Bloomington, US
• William G. Baker · Starkville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 2020
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2023
• Expiry date: Mar 17, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/2057
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer system including a processor in communication with a memory and a database may be provided. The processor may be programmed to: (i) execute a query on the database including a list of user identifiers associated with a plurality of users, (ii) receive license data associated with the user identifiers including a list of licenses and respective license renewal data associated with each user, (iii) determine, from the license data, that one or more licenses of a group of users is in a renewal period, (iv) notify each user of the group of users of the one or more licenses in the renewal period, (v) pre-populate a license renewal application for the one or more licenses in the renewal period the group of users, (vi) transmit the pre-populated application to be approved by the group of users, and (vii) receive the approved pre-populated application from the group of users.