SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE GARDEN DESIGN

• US 20090216661A1
• Filed: 10/24/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Scott J. Warner
• Original Assignee: Scott J. Warner
• Inventors: Warner, Scott J.
• Application Number:
  US12/257,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20090216661A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

A method and system for improving the way fruit, vegetable and flower gardens are planned, designed, and implemented. The present application discloses systems and methods to simplify gardening, as well as improve the overall yield while mitigating such problems as over-planting, over/under irrigating, and poor maintenance. Systems and methods are described for an application utilizing a database to provide an interactive garden design, planning and implementation process.

Claims

1-1. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) further comprises identifying, by the service, one of a yield size or a market value for each garden design.

9. A method for interactively designing a garden comprising one or more plants from a plurality of plants, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving, by a service, identification of a size of a garden, the service providing a graphical representation of a layout of the garden corresponding to the identified size.

(b) arranging, via the service, onto the layout for the garden a graphical representation of a number of plants for each of the one or more types of plants, the one or more types of plants selected by a user from a list of a plurality of types of plants provided by the service; and

(c) displaying, by the service, the graphical arrangement of the number of plants for each of the one or more types of plants onto the layout based on an established footprint that each of the number of plants occupies in relation to the identified size, the established footprint corresponding to the one or more types of plants.