METHOD OF PROCESSING APARTMENT TENANT STATUS INFORMATION

• US 20080215640A1
• Filed: 03/01/2007
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Experian Data Corporation (Experian plc)
• Original Assignee: Rentbureau
• Inventors: Hartz, Eric W., Hoeve, Peter, Solomon, Harold M., Jennings, Evan D.
• Application Number:
  US11/680,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20080215640A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/163 Real estate management

Abstract

In a method of processing tenant information, a first set of tenant history data, in a first format, is pushed from a first apartment rental management organization database to a central server. A second set of tenant history data, in a second format different from the first format, is pushed from a second apartment rental management organization database to the central server. Selected elements from the first set of tenant history data and the second set of tenant history data are assembled into a central database in a standard format. The central database is stored on the central server. Tenant history data is provided from the central database to a selected apartment rental management organization.

Claims

1. A method, operable on a digital computer, of processing tenant information, comprising the steps of:

a. pushing a first set of tenant history data, in a first format, from a first apartment rental management organization database to a central server;

b. pushing a second set of tenant history data, in a second format different from the first format, from a second apartment rental management organization database to the central server;

c. assembling selected elements from the first set of tenant history data and the second set of tenant history data into a central database in a standard format and storing the central database on the central server; and

d. providing tenant history data from the central database to a selected apartment rental management organization.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing selected metadata with the tenant history data from the central database when providing the tenant history data from the central database to the apartment rental management organization.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the metadata includes formatting information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the tenant history data from the central database includes information about rental payments made by a tenant.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the tenant history data from the central database includes information about late payments made by a tenant.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the tenant history data from the central database includes information about lease defaults made by a tenant.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the tenant history data from the central database includes information about an eviction of a tenant.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the tenant history data from the central database is provided to the selected apartment rental management organization in exchange for the selected apartment rental management organization providing access to its tenant history data.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing the tenant history data to a credit bureau.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the steps of pushing the first set of tenant history data and pushing the second set of tenant history data are repeated according to a predefined periodicity.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the predefined periodicity is daily.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of tenant history data and the second set of tenant history data are each pushed from a property management system.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the assembling step comprises the steps of:

a. searching the tenant history data for a selected set of field names; and

b. mapping data corresponding to each of the selected set of field names to a corresponding data structure in the central database.

14. A method, operable on a digital computer, of assembling tenant history data from a plurality of rental management organizations, comprising the steps of:

a. periodically receiving, via a global computer network, a set of tenant history data for each of the rental management organizations, wherein at least one first set of tenant history data is in a first format and at least one second set of tenant history data is in a second format, different from the first format;

b. extracting the first set with a first extraction program that selects relevant data from the first set and extracting the second set with a second extraction program that selects relevant data from the second set;

c. bundling the selected data from the first set with information regarding the first format, thereby creating bundled first set data, and bundling the selected data from the second set with information regarding the second format, thereby creating bundled second set data;

d. sending the bundled first set data and the bundled second set data to a secure server;

e. mapping the selected data from the bundled first set data and the bundled second set data into a central database;

f. responding to a request from a requesting rental management organization for a selected subset of data regarding a selected tenant by extracting tenant-specific data regarding the tenant from the central database and bundling the tenant-specific data along with format data corresponding to a format desired by the requesting rental-organization into a bundled data package; and

g. transmitting the bundled data package to the rental management organization.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the extracting step further comprising the step of validating the selected data according a set of to predefined criteria.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the tenant history data in the central database includes information about rental payments made by a tenant.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the tenant history data in the central database includes information about late payments made by a tenant.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the tenant history data in the central database includes information about lease defaults made by a tenant.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the tenant history data in the central database includes information about an eviction of a tenant.

20. A system, operable on a digital computer, for processing tenant information, comprising the steps of:

a. means for pushing a first set of tenant history data, in a first format, from a first apartment rental management organization database to a central server;

b. means for pushing a second set of tenant history data, in a second format different from the first format, from a second apartment rental management organization database to the central server;

c. means for assembling selected elements from the first set of tenant history data and the second set of tenant history data into a central database in a standard format and storing the central database on the central server; and

d. means for providing tenant history data from the central database to a selected apartment rental management organization.