SHORT-TERM RESIDENTIAL SPACES IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT

• US 20140100900A1
• Filed: 12/10/2013
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Original Assignee: Fatdoor Incorporated
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj V.
• Granted Patent: US 8,874,489 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/28 Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/003 locating network equipment

Abstract

Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of short-term residential spaces in a geo-spatial environment. In one embodiment, a method of a short-term listing server comprises validating that a place-to-stay listing data is associated with a verified user of the short-term listing server using a processor and a memory, verifying that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server, determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of the place-to-stay listing data is trusted based the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server, and processing a payment associated with a renter of a space in a private residential home associated with the place-to-stay listing data through the short-term listing server.

Claims

1. A method of a short-term listing server comprising:

validating that a place-to-stay listing data is associated with a verified user of the short-term listing server using a processor and a memory;

verifying that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server;

determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of the place-to-stay listing data is trusted based the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server; and

processing a payment associated with a renter of a space in a private residential home associated with the place-to-stay listing data through the short-term listing server.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

automatically publishing the place-to-stay listing data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server using a radial algorithm;

processing at least one of a listing criteria comprising at least one of a real estate type, a lot size, a square footage, a photograph, a video, a bedroom count, a room size, a description, a cost per month, a rental price, a leasing rate, a number of stories, and a location;

populating an availability chart when a real estate listing associated with the listing criteria is posted, wherein the availability chart includes at least one of a front door key delivery availability timing of the verified user, an on-home lockbox access key, and an occupancy availability of the real estate listing;

presenting the place-to-stay listing data as a real estate pushpin of the real estate listing in a geospatial map surrounding pre-populated residential and business listings in a surrounding vicinity, such that the real estate pushpin of the real estate listing is automatically presented on the geospatial map in addition to being presented on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server,

wherein the place-to-stay listing data is radially distributed through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to desktop and mobile devices associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area defined by the threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data through the radial algorithm of a neighborhood broadcasting system that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from the current geospatial location at the epicenter.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

permitting the verified user to drag and drop the real estate pushpin on any location on the geospatial map, and automatically determining a latitude and a longitude associated with a placed location, and

generating a for-rent view of the real estate in which the verified user offers the real estate for rent through the short-term listing server to other users in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

extracting the geospatial coordinates from a metadata associated with the place-to-stay listing data when verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

determining a relative match between a persistent clock associated with the short-term listing server and a digital clock of a data processing system to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and time of the place-to-stay listing data is accurate and therefore trusted; and

automatically deleting a publishing of the place-to-stay listing data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server based on a listing expiration time.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

geocoding a set of residential addresses each associated with a resident name in a neighborhood surrounding the data processing system; and

prepopulating the set of residential addresses each associated with the resident name as the set of user profiles in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server in a neighborhood curation system communicatively coupled with the short-term listing server.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

permitting the verified user to submit reviews in each of the set of user profiles;

tracking the submitted reviews through the rental listing system;

generating a reversible history journal associated with each of the set of user profiles such that a reviews of the verified user can be undone on a modified user profile page;

determining an reviewing credibility of the verified user based on an review history of the verified user and a community contribution validation of the verified user by other users of the rental listing system; and

automatically publishing the place-to-stay listing data to a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server using the radial algorithm.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

processing a claim request of the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system to be associated with an address of the rental listing system;

determining if the claimable neighborhood in the rental listing system is associated with a private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the rental listing system;

associating the verified user with the private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the rental listing system if the private neighborhood community has been activated by at least one of the verified user and a different verified user;

permitting the verified user to draw a set of boundary lines in a form of a geospatial polygon such that the claimable neighborhood in a geospatial region surrounding the claim request creates the private neighborhood community in the rental listing system if the private neighborhood community is inactive;

verifying the claim request of the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system to be associated with a neighborhood address of the rental listing system when the address is determined to be associated with at least one of a work address and a residential address of the verified user; and

simultaneously publishing the place-to-stay listing data on the private neighborhood community associated with the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system in the threshold radial distance from the address associated with the claim request of the verified user of the rental listing system when automatically publishing the place-to-stay listing data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server based on a set of preferences of the verified user using the radial algorithm.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

providing a summary data to the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system of how many user profile pages were updated with an alert of the place-to-stay listing data when publishing the place-to-stay listing data in at least one of the private neighborhood community and the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server based on the set of preferences of the verified user.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

live broadcasting the place-to-stay listing data to the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community and currently within the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location through the short-term listing server using a multicast algorithm such that a live broadcast multicasts to a plurality of data processing systems associated with each of the different user and the other verified users simultaneously when the data processing system of the verified user generating the live-broadcast enables broadcasting of the place-to-stay listing data to any one of a geospatial vicinity around the data processing system of the verified user generating the broadcast and in any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a non-transitory connection; and

permitting the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community to bi-directionally communicate with the verified user generating the broadcast through the short-term listing server,

wherein any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has the non-transitory connection is at least one of a residential address of the verified user and a work address of the verified user that has been confirmed by the short-term listing server as being associated with the verified user,

wherein the threshold distance is between 0.2 and 0.4 miles from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data to optimize a relevancy of the live-broadcast, and

wherein the short-term listing server includes a crowdsourced moderation algorithm in which multiple neighbors to a geospatial area determine what content contributed to the short-term listing server persists and which is deleted,

wherein the short-term listing server permits users to mute messages of specific verified users to prevent misuse of the short-term listing server,

wherein the real-estate listing server permits the place-to-stay listing data to be disseminated to adjacent neighborhoods that have been claimed by different users in a manner such that the place-to-stay listing data is optionally disseminated to the surrounding claimed neighborhoods based on a preference of the verified user,

wherein a claimed neighborhood of the verified user is activated based on a minimum number of other verified users in the threshold radial distance that have been verified through a primary residential address associated with each of the other verified users through at least one of a post card verification, a utility bill verification, a privately-published access code, and a neighbor vouching method,

wherein access to the place-to-stay listing data is restricted to the claimed neighborhood of the verified user, and

wherein access to the place-to-stay listing data is denied to users having verified addresses outside the claimed neighborhood of the verified user.

11. A method of a short-term listing server comprising:

authenticating a user in a geo-spatial social community after verifying an address of a user as being a verified resident of a particular address;

verifying that the address is associated with a private residential home rentable by a host for who the user is authorized to represent;

permitting the host to list at least one room in the private residential home on an online rental listing system;

booking the at least one room in the private residential home of the online rental listing system based on a request of a renter;

processing a payment of the renter for the at least one room in private residential home;

permitting the host and the renter to rate and review each other through the online rental listing system in a manner such that the geo-spatial community is enhanced with user generated content that enables various users of the geo-spatial community to connect with each other; and

creating a group associated with hosts and renters sharing common interests and previous stays in the at least one room in the private residential home.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

validating that a place-to-stay listing data is associated with a verified user of the short-term listing server using a processor and a memory;

verifying that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server;

determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of the place-to-stay listing data is trusted based the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server;

processing a payment associated with a renter of a space in a private residential home associated with the place-to-stay listing data through the short-term listing server;

determining that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of a place-to-stay listing data is trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of a user of the short-term listing server;

automatically publishing the place-to-stay listing data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the user of the short-term listing server using a radial algorithm;

radially distributing the place-to-stay listing data as a notification data through an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to;

a set of recipients through an internet protocol (IP) based network associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data generated through the computing device; and

a set of service providers accessible by the short-term listing server through a cellular network using the radial algorithm in addition to the set of recipients through the IP based network associated with users and their user profiles,

wherein the group is an online community created and organized by the rental listing system around at least one of a specific topic and an interest,

wherein the group provides a forum through which members are able to ask for help, provide information to share, and are able to connect with like-minded members of the rental listing system,

wherein the group provides a mechanism through which the host can post comments, articles, ask questions, share images, and participate in discussion, and

wherein members of the group are able to organize face-to-face meetings with other members of the group at the residential property,

validating that the place-to-stay listing data is associated with the user of the short-term listing server using a processor and a memory;

verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on the claimed geospatial location of the user of the short-term listing server;

processing at least one of a listing criteria comprising at least one of a real estate type, a lot size, a square footage, a photograph, a video, a bedroom count, a room size, a description, a cost per month, a rental price, a leasing rate, a number of stories, and a location;

populating an availability chart when a real estate listing associated with the listing criteria is posted, wherein the availability chart includes at least one of a front door key delivery availability timing of the user, an on-home lockbox access key, and an occupancy availability of the real estate listing; and

presenting the place-to-stay listing data as a real estate pushpin of the real estate listing in a geospatial map surrounding pre-populated residential and business listings in a surrounding vicinity, such that the real estate pushpin of the real estate listing is automatically presented on the geospatial map in addition to being presented on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the user of the short-term listing server.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

permitting the user to drag and drop the real estate pushpin on any location on the geospatial map, and automatically determining a latitude and a longitude associated with a placed location, and

generating a for-rent view of the real estate in which the user offers the real estate for rent through the short-term listing server to other users in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the user of the short-term listing server,

wherein the real-estate listing server permits the place-to-stay listing data to be disseminated to adjacent neighborhoods that have been claimed by different users in a manner such that the place-to-stay listing data is optionally disseminated to the surrounding claimed neighborhoods based on a preference of the verified user,

wherein a claimed neighborhood of the verified user is activated based on a minimum number of other verified users in the threshold radial distance that have been verified through a primary residential address associated with each of the other verified users through at least one of a post card verification, a utility bill verification, a privately-published access code, and a neighbor vouching method,

wherein access to the place-to-stay listing data is restricted to the claimed neighborhood of the verified user, and

wherein access to the place-to-stay listing data is denied to users having verified addresses outside the claimed neighborhood of the verified user.

14. A system comprising:

a short-term listing server to

validate that a place-to-stay listing data is associated with a verified user of the short-term listing server using a processor and a memory, and

verify that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server;

a network; and

a client device communicatively coupled with the short-term listing server through the network to provide a payment associated with a renter of a space in a private residential home associated with the place-to-stay listing data through the short-term listing server.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the short-term listing server further comprises:

a validation module to determine that a place-to-stay listing data is associated with a verified user of the short-term listing server using a processor and a memory,

a verification module to ensure that a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on a claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server,

a time stamp module to determine that a time stamp associated with a creation date and a creation time of the place-to-stay listing data is trusted based the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server,

a broadcasting module to automatically publish the place-to-stay listing data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server using a radial algorithm,

a listing module to process at least one of a listing criteria comprising at least one of a real estate type, a lot size, a square footage, a photograph, a video, a bedroom count, a room size, a description, a cost per month, a rental price, a leasing rate, a number of stories, and a location,

a charting module to populate an availability chart when a real estate listing associated with the listing criteria is posted, wherein the availability chart includes at least one of a front door key delivery availability timing of the verified user, an on-home lockbox access key, and an occupancy availability of the real estate listing,

a pushpin module to present the place-to-stay listing data as a real estate pushpin of the real estate listing in a geospatial map surrounding pre-populated residential and business listings in a surrounding vicinity, such that the real estate pushpin of the real estate listing is automatically presented on the geospatial map in addition to being presented on the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server, and

a notification module to radially distribute the place-to-stay listing data through at least one of an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and a push notification delivered to desktop and mobile devices associated with users and their user profiles around an epicenter defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area defined by the threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data through the radial algorithm of a neighborhood broadcasting system that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from the current geospatial location at the epicenter.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the short-term listing server further comprises:

a placement module to permit the verified user to drag and drop the real estate pushpin on any location on the geospatial map, and automatically determining a latitude and a longitude associated with a placed location;

a real estate offering module to generate a for-rent view of the real estate in which the verified user offers the real estate for rent through the short-term listing server to other users in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the short-term listing server further comprises:

an extraction module to extract the geospatial coordinates from a metadata associated with the place-to-stay listing data when verifying that the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data are trusted based on the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the short-term listing server further comprises:

a matching module to determine a relative match between a persistent clock associated with the short-term listing server and a digital clock of a data processing system to determine that the time stamp associated with the creation date and time of the place-to-stay listing data is accurate and therefore trusted; and

a deletion module to automatically delete the place-to-stay listing data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data of the verified user of the short-term listing server based on a listing expiration time.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the short-term listing server further comprises:

a plotting module to geocode a set of residential addresses each associated with a resident name in a neighborhood surrounding the data processing system; and

a data-seeding module to prepopulate the set of residential addresses each associated with the resident name as the set of user profiles in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server in a rental listing system communicatively coupled with the short-term listing server.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the short-term listing server further comprises:

a modification module to permit the verified user to submit reviews in each of the set of user profiles;

a discovery module to track the submitted reviews through the rental listing system;

an undo module to generate a reversible history journal associated with each of the set of user profiles such that a reviews of the verified user can be undone on a modified user profile page;

a reputation module to determine an reviewing credibility of the verified user based on an review history of the verified user and a community contribution validation of the verified user by other users of the rental listing system;

a publishing module to automatically communicate the place-to-stay listing data to a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server using the radial algorithm;

a claiming module to process a claim request of the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system to be associated with an address of the rental listing system;

a private-neighborhood module to determine if the claimable neighborhood in the rental listing system is associated with a private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the rental listing system;

an association module to associate the verified user with the private neighborhood community in the claimable neighborhood of the rental listing system if the private neighborhood community has been activated by at least one of the verified user and a different verified user;

a boundary module to permit the verified user to draw a set of boundary lines in a form of a geospatial polygon such that the claimable neighborhood in a geospatial region surrounding the claim request creates the private neighborhood community in the rental listing system if the private neighborhood community is inactive;

an address type module to verify the claim request of the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system to be associated with a neighborhood address of the rental listing system when the address is determined to be associated with at least one of a work address and a residential address of the verified user;

a concurrency module to simultaneously publish the place-to-stay listing data on the private neighborhood community associated with the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system in the threshold radial distance from the address associated with the claim request of the verified user of the rental listing system when automatically publishing the place-to-stay listing data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server based on a set of preferences of the verified user using the radial algorithm;

a summary module to provide a summary data to the verified user generating the place-to-stay listing data through the data processing system of how many user profile pages were updated with an alert of the place-to-stay listing data when publishing the place-to-stay listing data in at least one of the private neighborhood community and the set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in the threshold radial distance from the claimed geospatial location of the verified user of the short-term listing server based on the set of preferences of the verified user;

a live broadcast module to broadcast the place-to-stay listing data to the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community and currently within the threshold radial distance from the current geospatial location through the short-term listing server using a multicast algorithm such that a live broadcast multicasts to a plurality of data processing systems associated with each of the different user and the other verified users simultaneously when the data processing system of the verified user generating the live-broadcast enables broadcasting of the place-to-stay listing data to any one of a geospatial vicinity around the data processing system of the verified user generating the broadcast and in any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a non-transitory connection;

a bi-directional communication module to permit the different verified user and other verified users in at least one of the private neighborhood community to bi-directionally communicate with the verified user generating the broadcast through the short-term listing server;

a non-transitory module to determine any private neighborhood community in which the verified user has a non-transitory connection is at least one of a residential address of the verified user and a work address of the verified user that has been confirmed by the short-term listing server as being associated with the verified user;

a threshold module to automatically set the threshold distance between 0.2 and 0.4 miles from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the place-to-stay listing data to optimize a relevancy of the live-broadcast;

a moderation module to apply a crowdsourced moderation algorithm in which multiple neighbors to a geospatial area determine what content contributed to the short-term listing server persists and which is deleted;

a muting module to allow users to mute messages of specific verified users to prevent misuse of the short-term listing server,

wherein the real-estate listing server permits the place-to-stay listing data to be disseminated to adjacent neighborhoods that have been claimed by different users in a manner such that the place-to-stay listing data is optionally disseminated to the surrounding claimed neighborhoods based on a preference of the verified user,

wherein a claimed neighborhood of the verified user is activated based on a minimum number of other verified users in the threshold radial distance that have been verified through a primary residential address associated with each of the other verified users through at least one of a post card verification, a utility bill verification, a privately-published access code, and a neighbor vouching method,

wherein access to the place-to-stay listing data is restricted to the claimed neighborhood of the verified user, and

wherein access to the place-to-stay listing data is denied to users having verified addresses outside the claimed neighborhood of the verified user.