PREFERENCE STACK

• US 20110289077A1
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digital Map Products
• Original Assignee: Digital Map Products
• Inventors: Nguyen, Henry, Reyes, Mark, Wade, Geoffrey, Ploski, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 8,433,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Systems and methods for customizing the display of a set of data using a preference stack interface. The preference stack interface allows a user to interact with an ordered list of criterion objects. Each criterion object corresponds to an attribute of the data set to be presented to the user. In response to a change in the order of the criterion objects in the preference stack, a rendering of the dataset can be updated to differently and visually emphasize items according to which criterion objects each item meets.

Claims

1. A system for customizing a display of real estate data in combination with an interactive map, the real estate data comprising a plurality of property records, the system comprising:

at least one computer processor; and

at least one executable software module configured to, when executed by the at least one computer processor

generate a preference stack comprising a representation of a first property attribute and a representation of a second property attribute;

receive an indication that the second property attribute should be given more weight than the first property attribute; and

in response to the indication generate representations of a plurality of property records to be rendered on an interactive map, wherein property records which meet the second property attribute are visually emphasized over property records which meet the first property attribute but do not meet the second property attribute.

2. A method for customizing a display of a set of data, the method comprising:

generating, by one or more computer processors, a preference stack comprising an indication of a first criteria and an indication of a second criteria, wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria comprise one or more attributes associated with a dataset;

receiving an indication that the second criteria should be given more weight than the first criteria; and

generating, by one or more computer processors, representations of items in the dataset, wherein the representations of the items which meet the second criteria are visually emphasized over the representations of the items which meet the first criteria but do not meet the second criteria.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving a selection of the first criteria from a plurality of criteria; and

receiving a selection of the second criteria from the plurality of criteria.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising receiving one or more selections of additional criteria from the plurality of criteria, wherein each of the selections of the first criteria, the second criteria, and the additional criteria is classified as either mandatory or non-mandatory criteria, and generating representations of items in the data set comprises generating representations of only the items in the dataset which meet at least one of the mandatory criteria.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

providing a plurality of criteria, wherein each of the plurality of criteria comprises one or more attributes associated with the dataset;

associating each of two or more of the items in the dataset with one or more tags, the one or more tags indicating which of the plurality of criteria are met by the associated item; and

associating each of the two or more items with a score based on the associated one or more tags;

wherein generating representations of the items in the dataset comprises generating at least one of the representations of the two or more items to be different than a representation of another of the two or more items based on their associated scores.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

retrieving the dataset from a datastore, wherein the dataset is a subset of the datastore; and

storing the dataset in a cache.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the indication comprises a user interaction with the preference stack.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the user interaction comprises changing an ordering of the representation of the first criteria and the representation of the second criteria in the preference stack.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the user interaction comprises highlighting the representation of the second criteria in the preference stack.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria are associated with a weight, and the first criteria and second criteria are visually ordered in the preference stack according to their weight.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the preference stack further comprises a first statistic and a second statistic, wherein the first statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the first criteria and the second statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the second criteria.

12. A system for customizing a display of a set of data, the system comprising:

at least one computer processor; and

at least one executable software module configured to, when executed by the at least one computer processor;

generate representations of items in a dataset;

generate a preference stack comprising a representation of a first criteria and a representation of a second criteria, wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria comprise one or more attributes associated with the dataset;

receive an indication that the second criteria should be given more weight than the first criteria; and

in response to the indication, update the representations of the items of the dataset, wherein items which meet the second criteria are visually emphasized over items which meet the first criteria but do not meet the second criteria.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

receive a selection of the first criteria from a plurality of criteria; and

receive a selection of the second criteria from the plurality of criteria.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

receive one or more selections of additional criteria from the plurality of criteria, wherein each of the selections of the first criteria, the second criteria, and the additional criteria is classified as either mandatory or non-mandatory criteria; and

generate the representations of the items in the data set by generating representations of only the items in the dataset which meet at least one of the mandatory criteria.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

provide a plurality of criteria, wherein each of the plurality of criteria comprises one or more attributes associated with the dataset;

associate each of two or more of the items in the dataset with one or more tags, the one or more tags indicating which of the plurality of criteria are met by the associated item;

associate each of the two or more items with a score based on the associated one or more tags; and

generate a representation of at least one of the two or more items to be different than a representation of another of the two or more items based on their associated scores.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

retrieve the dataset from a datastore, wherein the dataset is a subset of the datastore; and

store the dataset in a cache.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the indication comprises a user interaction with the preference stack.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the user interaction comprises changing an order of the representation of the first criteria and the representation of the second criteria in the preference stack.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the user interaction comprises highlighting the representation of the second criteria in the preference stack.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria are associated with a weight and are visually ordered in the preference stack according to their weight.

21. The system of claim 12, wherein the preference stack further comprises a first statistic and a second statistic, wherein the first statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the first criteria and the second statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the second criteria.