SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A SINGLE PROPERTY WEBSITE

• US 20120311431A1
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Homefinder.Com, LLC (Placester, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Homefinder.Com, LLC (Placester, Inc.)
• Inventors: Breaker, Douglas, Sanders, Eric, Domonkos, Jennifer, Aniceto, Jason
• Application Number:
  US13/485,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20120311431A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, a computer system, or a tangible computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for execution on a processor may operate to automatically generate and update a single property website by aggregating MLS and other real estate listing data corresponding to a property listed within the MLS. The single property website may then be used to publicize the property to attract other brokers and buyers to the property while being linked to a plurality of data sources to provide dynamic and real-time information to a buyer or other brokers for a property.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating a single proper website within a computer system via a network connection, the method comprising:

aggregating a plurality of electronic data feeds, the plurality of data feeds including information related to one or more listings for a piece of real estate;

extracting first data for the piece of real estate from at least one electronic data feed;

using a processor of the computer system to arrange the extracted first data into a single property website for the piece of real estate;

extracting second data for the piece of real estate from at least one electronic data feed;

comparing the extracted first data to the extracted second data; and

updating the single property website based on the comparison of the extracted first data to the extracted second data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding a link to the single property website within another website, wherein selecting the added link causes a processor of a computing device displaying the page to initiate a web request from the device to the single property website.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein adding the link includes one or more of:

generating a first set of instructions to display a description of the piece of real estate and the link within the other website;

generating a second set of instructions to display a subset of information included in the single property website and the link within the other website;

or

generating a printable bar code, wherein scanning the bar code with a computing device initiates a web request from the device to the single property website.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic data feeds include one or more of a plurality of MLS data feeds, a classified ad data feed, or a for sale by owner data feed.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein:

a plurality of the electronic data feeds include one or more identical subsets of information related to the one or more listings for the piece of real estate, and

using a processor to arrange the data extracted from the data feeds into a single property website includes combining the information from the plurality of data feeds.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein a plurality of the electronic data feeds include one or more identical subsets of information related to the listings, and using a processor to arrange the data extracted from the data feeds into a single property website includes selecting information from only one of the data feeds including identical subsets of information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising extracting the first data before the second data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of electronic data feeds includes data associated with one or more of average property values in the area, average weather in the area, local school districts, demographic information, or maps of the area.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

electronically receiving visibility data for the single property website, the visibility data including an indication of popularity for the single property website;

generating a website using the visibility data; and

ranking the single property website relative to other single property websites based on the indication of popularity.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein ranking the single property website relative to other single property websites based on the indication of popularity includes ranking all single property websites based on a total number of popularity indications or ranking the single property websites based on a rate of change function, wherein the rate of change function represents a rate at which the indications of popularity associated with each single property website increase with respect to time.

11. A computer system for generating a single property website via a network connection, the system comprising:

a memory storing instructions;

a processor for executing the stored instructions to cause the computer system to;

aggregate a plurality of electronic data feeds, the plurality of data feeds including information related to one or more listings for a piece of real estate;

extract first data for the piece of real estate from at least one electronic data feed;

arrange the extracted first data into a single property website for the piece of real estate;

extract second data for the piece of real estate from at least one electronic data feed;

compare the extracted first data to the extracted second data; and

update the single property website based on the comparison of the extracted first data to the extracted second data;

wherein the system extracts the first data before the second data.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein executing the stored instructions further causes the computer system to add a hyperlink to a page of another website, wherein selecting the added hyperlink causes a processor of a computing device displaying the page to initiate a web request from the computing device to a server hosting the single property website via the network connection.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein adding the hyperlink to the page of another website includes one or more of:

causing a processor of the computer system to generate a first set of computer readable instructions that cause a server hosting a classified ad website to host a textual description for the single property website and the hyperlink on the classified ad website;

causing a processor of the computer system to generate a second set of computer readable instructions that cause the server to display a subset of information included in the single property website and the hyperlink;

or

causing a processor of the computer system to generate a printable bar code, wherein scanning the bar code with a computing device initiates a web request from the device to the single property website.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the electronic data feeds include one or more of a plurality of MLS data feeds, a classified ad data feed, or a for sale by owner data feed.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the electronic data feeds include one or more identical subsets of information related to the one or more listings for the piece of real estate, and executing the stored instructions causes the computer system to arrange the data extracted from the data feeds into the single property website by combining the information from the data feeds.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the electronic data feeds include one or more identical subsets of information related to the listings for the piece of real estate, and executing the stored instructions causes the computer system to arrange the data extracted from the data feeds into the single property website by selecting information from only one of the data feeds including identical subsets of information.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the electronic data feeds include data associated with one or more of average property values in the area, average weather in the area, local school districts, demographic information, or maps of the area.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein executing the stored instructions further causes the computer system to:

electronically receive visibility data for the single property website, the visibility data including an indication of popularity for the single property website;

generate a website using the visibility data, wherein the website ranks the single property website relative to other single property websites based on the indication of popularity.

19. A computer-implemented method for generating a single property website within a computer system via a network connection, the method comprising:

aggregating a plurality of electronic data feeds, the plurality of data feeds including information related to one or more listings for a piece of real estate;

extracting first da for the piece of a estate from the aggregated electronic data feeds; and

arranging, with a processor of the computer system,the extracted data into a single property website for he piece of real estate.

20. A tangible computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor of a computer system cause the computer system to:

aggregate a plurality of electronic data feeds, the plurality of data feeds including information related to one or more listings for a piece of real estate;

extract first data for the piece of real estate from the aggregated data feeds;

arrange the extracted first data into a single property website for the piece of real estate;

extract second data for the piece of real estate from the aggregated data feeds;

compare the extracted first data to the extracted second data; and

update the single property website based on the comparison of the extracted first data to the extracted second data.

21. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 20, further comprising instructions to add a hyperlink to a page of another website, wherein selecting the added hyperlink causes a processor of a computing device displaying the page to initiate a web request from the computing device to a server hosting the single property website via the network connection.

22. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the instructions to add the hyperlink include one or more instructions to:

post the hyperlink to the single property website on a social network website;

generate a first set of instructions to cause a server hosting the classified ad website to host a textual description for the single property website and the hyperlink on the classified ad website;

generate a second set of instructions to cause the server to display a subset of information included in the single property website and the hyperlink;

or

generate a printable bar code, wherein scanning the bar code with a computing device initiates a web request from the device to the single property website.

23. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the electronic data feeds include one or more of a plurality of MLS data feeds, a classified ad data feed, or a for sale by owner data feed.

24. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 23, wherein the electronic data feeds include one or more identical subsets of information related to the one or more listings for a piece of real estate, and arranging the data extracted from the data feeds into the single property website includes combining the information from the data feeds.

25. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 23, wherein the electronic data feeds include one or more identical subsets of information related to the one or more listings for a piece of real estate, and arranging the data extracted from the data feeds into the single property website includes selecting information from only one of the data feeds including identical subsets of information.

26. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 20, further comprising instructions to extract the first data before the second data.

27. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the plurality of electronic data feeds includes data associated with one or more of average property values in the area, average weather in the area, local school districts, demographic information, or maps of the area.

28. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 20, further comprising instructions that when executed by a processor of a computer system cause the computer system to:

electronically receive visibility data for the single property website, the visibility data including an indication of popularity for the single property website;

generate a website using the visibility data; and

ranking the single property website relative to other single property websites based on the indication of popularity.

29. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 28, wherein ranking the single property website relative to other single property websites based on the indication of popularity includes ranking all single property websites based on a total number of popularity indications, or ranking the single property websites based on a rate of change function, wherein the rate of change function represents the rate at which the indications of popularity associated with each single property website increase with respect to time.

30. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

extracting second data for the piece of real estate from at least one electronic data feed;

comparing the extracted first data to the extracted second data; and

updating the single property website based on the comparison of the extracted first data to the extracted second data.