Short term residential spaces in a geo-spatial environment

• US 20090015582A1
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fatdoor Incorporated
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj Vasant
• Application Number:
  US11/827,774
• Publication Number:
  US 20090015582A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/05 Geographic models

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system of short term residential spaces in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each profile associated with a specific geographic location, generating a first residential space identifier associated with a first user profile, and generating a first display view to include a three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network, the first residential space identifier, and the first user profile represented at a location in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of the first user profile. In addition, the method may also include simultaneously representing other user profiles adjacent to the first user profile in the three-dimensional map view. The method may also include simultaneously representing other user profiles adjacent to the first user profile of the user profiles in the three-dimensional map view.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles associated with a specific geographic location;

generating a first residential space identifier associated with a first user profile of the user profiles; and

generating a first display view to include a three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network, the first residential space identifier, and the first user profile of the user profiles represented at a location in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of the first user profile of the user profiles.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

simultaneously representing other user profiles adjacent to the first user profile of the user profiles in the three-dimensional map view.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating residential space identifiers, each residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers associated with a user profile of the user profiles;

generating a search of the residential space identifiers based on at least one criterion;

identifying at least one residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers matching the at least one criterion; and

generating a second display view to include a three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network, the at least one residential space identifier, and a second user profile of the user profiles associated with the at least one residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers represented at a location in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location associated with the second user profile of the user profiles.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying reservation information in the first display view.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

generating an online reservation and a financial transaction associated with the first residential space identifier.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating the first residential space identifier with at least one type of accommodation associated with the specific geographic location of the first user profile of the user profiles.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

generating a visual representation associated with the accommodation; and

displaying the visual representation associated with the first residential space identifier.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a wiki profile associated with the first user profile of the user profiles; and

displaying the wiki profile associated with the first user profile of the user profiles.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

generating content associated with the wiki profile; and

displaying the content associated with the wiki profile.

10. The method of claim 1 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 1.

11. A system, comprising:

a geo-spatial environment;

a community network module of the geo-spatial environment, to include user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles to include a specific geographic location;

a residential space identifier module of the geo-spatial environment to generate residential space identifiers associated with accommodations, each residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers associated with a user profile of the user profiles;

a map module of the geo-spatial environment to include map data which serve as a basis to render a three-dimensional map view in the geo-spatial environment which identifies at least some physical structures having specific geographic locations; and

a display module of the geo-spatial environment to generate a display view of the three-dimensional map view embodied by a community network, a first user profile of the user profiles, and a first residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers associated with the first user profile of the user profiles represented at a location in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of the first user profile of the user profiles.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a search module of the geo-spatial environment to generate search criteria, enable selection of at least one search criterion of the search criteria, and to identify and display the residential space identifiers matching the at least one search criterion of the search criteria.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the search criteria includes:

a geographic region, a type of accommodation, a rate range, an availability status, a special offer and discounts, an other services availability, and a term lease option.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the type of accommodation includes:

a house, a room, an apartment, an office suite, and an office.

15. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a reservation module of the geo-spatial environment to generate a reservation.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

an online payment module to generate an online payment transaction associated with the reservation.

17. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

an attraction module of the geo-spatial environment to generate and display attraction identifiers, each attraction identifier associated with an attraction in a geographic proximity to a specific geographic location associated with a user profile of the user profiles.

18. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a wiki profile module of the geo-spatial environment to generate in the display view, a wiki profile associated with a user profile of the user profiles.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising:

an append module of the geo-spatial environment to generate, with at least one wiki profile, content associated with the at least one wiki profile.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the content includes at least one review associated with the first residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers.

21. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a view module to generate at least one view of an accommodation associated with the first residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers.

22. A geo-spatial environment, comprising:

a first instruction set to enable a community network, to include a map database associated with map data, a user database associated with user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles associated with a specific geographic location identifiable in the map data, and a residential space identifier database associated with residential space identifiers, each residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers associated with a user profile of the user profiles;

a second instruction set integrated with the first instruction set to select a first residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers associated with a first user profile of the user profiles; and

a third instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set to display a three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network, the first user profile of the user profiles, the first residential space identifier, and simultaneously to represent other user profiles adjacent to the first user profile of the user profiles in the three-dimensional map view, wherein the first user profile of the user profiles is displayed at a location in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of the first user profile.

23. The geo-spatial environment of claim 22, further comprising:

a fourth instruction set to generate search criteria, to enable a selection of at least one search criterion of the search criteria, and to identify and display, in the three-dimension map view, at least one residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers matching the at least one search criterion of the search criteria.

24. The geo-spatial environment of claim 22, further comprising:

a fifth instruction set to generate a reservation associated with an accommodation and the first residential space identifier of the residential space identifiers.