Real Estate Patents (Class 707/946)
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Patent number: 8577929Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for visual manipulation of database schema are disclosed. In general, in one aspect, a system can display a schema view and a data view in graphic representation in an integrated GUI on a display device. The system can display a schema in the schema view, and one or more data records in the data view. The system can receive a touch input from the display device in the schema view, or the data view, or both. In response to the touch input, the system can modify the schema, or the data records, or both. The system can update the schema view and data view substantially simultaneously to reflect the modification in the schema or data records.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jesse Leon Boley, Ryan David Shelby, Ryan Christopher Griggs, Kevin Iversen Smith
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Patent number: 8566112Abstract: The electronic realty transaction system (ERTS) automates real estate processes and provides web-based accessibility to residential, commercial, and land markets. The system will provide a “one-stop-shop” for all real estate related transactions and will include a detailed tracking and history of customer transactions for the realtors. The system will provide the ability to charge, collect, and track payments for real estate related transactions. ERTS includes an electronic contract generator (ECG) that pulls information from multiple sources and automatically identifies end-user requests for services and ultimately enables a property request (i.e. contract) to be developed using auto populating techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Inventors: Eva T. Klivington, Margit E. Klivington
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Patent number: 8346796Abstract: A system for searching property listings based on location may include storing, in a database of a mobile electronic device, a set of property listing entries, wherein a property listing entry includes an identification data field and a location coordinate data field. A property searching application may be executed on a processor of the mobile electronic device, wherein executing the property searching application includes multiple operations. Updated property listing entries may be received from a listing server. The set of property listing entries may be transformed based on the updated property listings. A search area may be determined. The database may be queried to retrieve one or more property listing entries from the set of property listing entries based on a comparison between the search area and the location coordinate data fields of the property listing entries.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: MobileRealtyApps.com, LLCInventor: Aaron Kardell
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Patent number: 8296332Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for visual manipulation of database schema are disclosed. In general, in one aspect, a system can display a schema view and a data view in graphic representation in an integrated GUI on a display device. The system can display a schema in the schema view, and one or more data records in the data view. The system can receive a touch input from the display device in the schema view, or the data view, or both. In response to the touch input, the system can modify the schema, or the data records, or both. The system can update the schema view and data view substantially simultaneously to reflect the modification in the schema or data records.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jesse Leon Boley, Ryan David Shelby, Ryan Christopher Griggs, Kevin Iversen Smith
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Patent number: 8224745Abstract: A method of processing delinquency items associated with taxes on properties may include receiving preferences from two or more lenders. Delinquency items may be automatically processed according to the preferences of each lender for their respective loans. The preferences may include business rules for whether to process a delinquency item. A lender preference may include specific criteria for a determination process (e.g., criteria for when to act on delinquencies with respect to particular states).Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: CoreLogic Tax Services, LLCInventors: John M. Gilberti, Rick Holcomb, Nancy Walker, Shane Jones, Bobbie Johannes, Ben Agenbag, Paul Comer
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Patent number: 8024349Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating, responsive to user input from a user, a set of property results, said set of property results including data pertaining to one or more properties, the computer-implemented method comprising: (a) receiving the user input, the user input including one or more text strings; (b) checking the one or more text strings against one or more references to find one or more changeable text strings, the one or more references including a real estate dictionary; (c) forming one or more search criteria using one or more transformed terms, the one or more transformed terms pertaining to the one or more changeable text strings; and (d) searching in one or more databases using the one or more search criteria to produce the set of property results, the one or more databases include one or more property databases.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Inventors: Henry K. Shao, Xiangyang Yao
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Patent number: 7818219Abstract: The electronic realty transaction system (ERTS) automates real estate processes and provides web-based accessibility to residential, commercial, and land markets. The system will provide a “one-stop-shop” for all real estate related transactions and will include a detailed tracking and history of customer transactions for the realtors. The system will provide the ability to charge, collect, and track payments for real estate related transactions. ERTS includes an electronic contract generator (ECG) that pulls information from multiple sources and automatically identifies end-user requests for services and ultimately enables a property request (i.e. contract) to be developed using auto populating techniques.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: American Hungarian Technologies Inc.Inventors: Eva T. Klivington, Margit E. Klivington
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Patent number: 7809720Abstract: Improved data content determination techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with information-seeking systems. For example, in one illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for determining data content for a response to a query comprises obtaining a user query, and dynamically determining data content suitable for generating a response to the query, wherein data content determination is modeled as an optimization operation which attempts to balance context-based selection constraints. Further, the step of dynamically determining data content may further comprise modeling the context-based selection constraints as feature-based metrics. The feature-based metrics may be formulated using contextual information. Still further, the step of dynamically determining data content may further comprise performing the optimization operation such that one or more desirability metrics are maximized and one or more cost metrics are minimized, thus balancing the various constraints.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Michelle X. Zhou