System and method for locating real estate in the context of points-of-interest
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorSe-Wai Lee
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Abstract
An on-line interactive, Internet-based real estate service that provides property listings in the context of a set of user selected points-of-interest. The real estate service provides a database of properties and a user sets points-of-interest. The real estate service calculates and displays distances between properties selected from the database and the user set points-of-interest. In this way, the user can search for properties in the context of points of interest.
Claims28
A method for geographically locating a property in a real estate service that contains data for a plurality of properties, comprising the steps of:
- accepting from a user searching for a property of interest data indicative of a geographic location of a point-of-interest;
- accepting from said user an input indicative of a selection of a property selected from the plurality of properties;
- determining the location of the property relative to the point-of-interest;
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- displaying data indicative of the location of the property relative to the point of interest.
A real estate listing system for providing information about property listings to a client computer over a computer network, comprising:
- a server computer capable of electronic communication with the client computer via the computer network;
- a database of property listings coupled to the server computer, the serve r computer being capable of selecting properties from the data base in response to client computer commands;
- a user specific database coupled to said server computer for storing a geographic location for a point-of-interest that is accepted from the client computer;
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- a processor for determining a distance between the geographic location for the point-of-interest and a geographic location of a property selected from the database of property listings.
A computer readable medium having computer executable components comprising:
- a database component for storing a plurality of property listings;
- a user interface component for receiving from a user searching for a property-of-interest a set of points-of-interest;
- a user interface component for receiving a selection of said property-of-interest from the plurality of property listings;
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- a component for determining the location of the property of interest in relation to the points-of-interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.