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US 2010/0063829 A1Published application
Real estate transaction system
OwnerDennis J. Duprayinventor
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Abstract
A network based real estate transaction system is disclosed for assisting real estate agents and their clients with determining properties for purchase.
Claims1
A method for assisting in a real estate transaction, the method including at least one of:
- (1) the steps (A) through (C) hereinbelow, and (2) a step of providing programmatic instructions on a storage media for enabling the steps (A) through (C) hereinbelow:
- (A) for a user of a communication device (CD), a step of first obtaining user input of corresponding real estate preference information for one or more real estate properties;
- wherein the corresponding real estate preference information includes data for a geolocation condition, said geolocation condition for determining one or more presentations to be presented at CD, wherein the geolocation condition is satisfied for a presentation (P) of the one or more presentations, by determining that:
- for some estimated location, or location along an expected future route, (LCD) of the communication device CD, and for a corresponding destination (DP) associated with the presentation P wherein the user gains greater access to an instance of the at least one real estate property by the user traveling to DP, that DP is one or more of (a1), (a2) and (a3) following:
- (a1) within one of:
- a specified user travel distance of the location LCD, or a specified geographically identified area of the location LCD,
- (a2) within a specified expected elapsed time of travel from the location LCD;
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- (a3) nearer to LCD than at least one other destination for accessing an instance of the at least one real estate property;
- (B) obtaining a location estimate (LEST) of an actual or expected future geographic location (L1) of the communication device CD at a first time, wherein the location estimate is dependent upon geolocation indicative information communicated between:
- (i) the communication device CD, and (ii) a communications network;
- (C) one or more of (c1) and (c2) following are performed, wherein for a first of the at least one real estate property, there is a first presentation (P1) providing information related to accessing an instance (I1) of the first real estate property, and P1 having associated therewith information used for identifying a corresponding destination (DP1) for accessing I1:
- (c1) the steps (c1-1) and (c1-2) following are performed, wherein for the first real estate property, the corresponding property preference information is satisfied for the first presentation P1 with the location estimate LEST being used to obtain a corresponding instance of LCD:
- (c1-1) accessing information (INFm) associated with another of the presentations (Pm) of some one of the real estate properties (REP), wherein INFm includes at least a corresponding destination DPm associated with Pm, and determining that for the corresponding destination DPm, the geolocation condition of the corresponding property preference information for the real estate property REP is satisfied;
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- (c1-2) providing information for computing a route (Rm) to substantially the corresponding destination DP1, wherein the route Rm is to go to DPm;
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- (c2) the steps (c2-1) through (c2-4) following are performed, wherein in addition to the geolocation condition associated with the first real estate property, there is additionally associated therewith additional preference information (AP), obtained from user input, said additional preference information AP also used for determining whether a presentation for the first real estate property is to be presented at the communication device CD, wherein the additional preference information AP is stored for accessing at a plurality of substantially different times for determining whether some one or more presentations for the first real estate property are to be presented at the communication device CD;
- wherein from the additional preference information AP one or more additional conditions are obtained for evaluating whether a presentation (PJ) is to be presented at CD such that (c2-a) and (c2-b) following hold:
- (c2-a) the evaluating of the additional conditions uses a characteristic that is one of (c2-ai) and (c2-aii) following:
- (c2-ai) indicative of how the user desires to access an instance (IJ) of the first real estate property, and
- (c2-aii) obtained using property access information, associated with PJ, such that the characteristic provides information as to how the user is able to access the instance IJ;
- wherein said instance Ij accessible at a corresponding destination (DPJ) associated with PJ, and
- (c2-b) the characteristic is both of (c2-bi) and (c2-bii) following:
- (c2-bi) independent of substantially an entire travel distance to, and a geographical area of, DPJ;
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- (c2-bii) independent of an expected time for traveling substantially an entire travel distance to DPJ;
- (c2-1) for a presentation (Pk) being an instance of PJ, a step of first accessing at least a portion of the additional preference information AP, and a step of determining that for the presentation Pk at least one of the additional conditions is not satisfied when evaluated according to (c2-a) and (c2-b) above;
- (c2-2) obtaining an additional location estimate of an actual or expected future geographic location of the communication device CD at a different geographic location from L1 or at a substantially different subsequent time from the first time, such that the additional location estimate is dependent upon geolocation indicative information communicated between:
- (i) the communication device CD, and (ii) a communications network;
- (c2-3) second accessing the additional preference information AP, and determining that for the additional location estimate, and the corresponding destination DP1 associated with P1, both the geolocation condition is satisfied, and for P1 being an instance of PJ, the additional conditions evaluated according to (c2-a) and (c2-b) above are satisfied;
- (c2-4) providing information for computing a route (R1);
- wherein the route R1 includes at least one direction for directing the user from substantially the additional location estimate to substantially the corresponding destination DP1;
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- wherein information indicative of one or more of:
- the route Rm, the route R1, the presentation P1, and the presentation Pm is transmitted to the communication device CD.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.