Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-24
2010-11-09
Frenel, Vanel (Department: 3687)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
C705S004000, C705S037000, C705S03600T, C705S038000, C705S026640
Reexamination Certificate
active
07831466
ABSTRACT:
A lessee of an item, such as an automobile, is encouraged to either purchase the automobile at the expiration of the lease, or to initiate a new lease for the same item. If the lessee undertakes a purchase or a new lease, a manufacturer of the item, or another party, provides insurance covering the item. The methods disclosed herein may be performed over a computer network, such as the Internet.
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Jackson Jasper
Wallach Robert
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Disruptive Technologies Ltd.
Frenel Vanel
Hanchuk Walter G.
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