PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ON A SMARTPHONE

• US 20140279593A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EagleView Technologies Incorporated (Eagleview Technologies, Inc. /Wa/)
• Original Assignee: EagleView Technologies Incorporated (Eagleview Technologies, Inc. /Wa/)
• Inventors: Pershing, Chris
• Granted Patent: US 9,959,581 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/314
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/163 Real estate management

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for a property management system that runs on a smartphone and allows users to identify and track information on one or more properties and to receive property updates from the server. Systems and methods are also disclosed that use the orientation of and images captured by a smartphone camera to identify a facet of an object and to determine its pitch.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a smartphone device;

a server operably connected to the smartphone device;

a module on the smartphone device configured to;

receive information identifying one or more properties,

send an order for a roof report for the one or more properties to the server,

receive the roof report for the one or more properties from the server, and

store the roof report for the one or more properties received from the server on the smartphone device.

2. A method, comprising:

receiving information identifying one or more properties;

sending an order for a roof report for the one or more properties to the server;

receiving the roof report for the one or more properties from the server; and

storing the roof report for the one or more properties received from the server.

3. A system, comprising:

a smartphone device;

a module on the smartphone device configured to;

receive an image representing a facet of an object for which a pitch is to be determined, wherein the image contains metadata information;

receive a scissor marker from a user that identifies the facet of the object for which a pitch is to be determined;

determine the pitch of the object using the scissor marker and the metadata information;

output the pitch of the facet of the object to the smartphone device.

4. A method, comprising:

receiving an image representing a facet of an object for which a pitch is to be determined, wherein the image contains metadata information;

receiving a scissor marker from a user that identifies the facet of the object for which a pitch is to be determined;

determining the pitch of the object using the scissor marker and the metadata information;

outputting the pitch of the facet of the object to the smartphone device.