SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF REAL-ESTATE INFORMATION

• US 20080109756A1
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Original Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Inventors: Stambaugh, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/865,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109756A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police stations for a municipality. Another spatial domain may be a visualization of a specific biological pathway, containing annotation on potential drug targets, signal transduction cascades, disease pathways, biomarkers for diagnostic opportunities, or cellular localization for a metabolic pathway. Zeetix methods and systems enable the organization of information around a specific spatial domain. These methods and systems facilitate managing objects presented in visualization layers of a variety of spatial domains. The methods and systems may include methods and systems for associating an object with one or more spatial domains; presenting the object in a plurality of navigable visualization layers with dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the spatial domain, the visualization layers having a navigation scheme for navigating within and among the visualization layers, wherein the visualization layers conform to a published application programming interface; assigning the object at least one attribute associated with a virtual property right in at least one spatial domain; and upon a user interaction with the object in the visualization layer, presenting information associated with the virtual property right(s) of the object.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a spatial domain comprising real-estate that is available for purchase, the spatial domain containing a plurality of navigable visualization layers with dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the spatial domain, the visualization layers having a navigation scheme for navigating within and among the visualization layers, wherein the visualization layers conform to a published map application programming interface;

associating objects with the real-estate that is available for purchase;

presenting the objects on a map that relates the spatial domain to a physical location of the real-estate that is available for purchase;

presenting a visualization tree for selecting the objects to be presented on the map; and

in response to a user interaction with one of the presented objects, facilitating user access real-estate purchase information that is associated with the object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the available real-estate is selected from a list of real-estate sources consisting of a multiple listing service, individual brokers, direct sellers, local community electronic bulletin boards, blogs, and seller assistance services.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the objects with the visualization tree includes selecting available real-estate based on visualization aspects of the real-estate.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the visualization aspects include one or more of offer price, number of bedrooms, lot size, number of floors, square footage, and car garage size.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the real-estate purchase information includes at least one of purchase price, lot size, broker contact information, multiple listing service number, a link to broker listing web site, and a seller disclosure document.