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System for retrieving and serving the regulatory history of a property including mobile wireless communications device based searching and retrieval and related methods

  • US 10,068,026 B1
  • Filed: 12/19/2016
  • Issued: 09/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for retrieving and serving the regulatory history of a property comprising:

  • a plurality of first remote computers each of which is respectively associated with at least one governmental authority each having land use based regulatory history data associated therewith;

    at least one second remote computer different from each of the plurality of first remote computers and having land use based regulatory history data associated therewith;

    a communications network; and

    a mobile wireless communications device comprisinga device housing,an input device carried by said device housing,a display carried by said device housing and defining a user interface,wireless communications circuitry carried by said device housing, anda controller coupled to said input device, said display, and said wireless communications circuitry, said controller configured to, based upon input from said input device,cooperate with said wireless communications circuitry to communicate with said plurality of first remote computers over said communications network to build a local database including an index of where each data type can be found on said plurality of first computers,store, in the local database, land use based regulatory history data including at least one of permit history data and approval history data,automatically search the local database for a given real property based upon a given real property identifier associated therewith to determine which of said plurality of first remote computers has land use based regulatory history data available for the given real property,automatically determine a potential match for the given real property based on a predetermined threshold and prompt the user to confirm the match,automatically make a determination as to the sufficiency of retrieved land use based regulatory history data from the plurality of first remote computers by determining whether the land use based regulatory history data comes from a trusted source or a particular governmental authority at a predetermined one of the plurality of first remote computers,automatically determine whether a complete regulatory history, which is sufficient to rely upon for purposes of due diligence, is available to the system for the given real property and flag a record corresponding to the given real property if the regulatory history for the record is incomplete,automatically retrieve land use based regulatory history data from said at least one second remote computer over said communications network based upon the given real property identifier when at least one of the land use based regulatory history data available for the given real property does not exceed a threshold amount and at least one of the plurality of first remote computers is not the predetermined one thereof,automatically provide the land use based regulatory history data for the given real property to the user interface for display thereon when at least one of the land use based regulatory history data available for the given real property exceeds the threshold amount and at least one of the plurality of first remote computers is from the predetermined one thereof, andautomatically layer, on said display, geographic information system (GIS) data from at least one of said plurality of first remote computers,wherein said controller is configured to overlay, on said display, at least one of data layers of building data and data layers of permit data for the given real property from each of said plurality of first remote computers and display the layering of the GIS data on the display based upon input from said input device.

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