VIRTUAL HOME INSPECTION
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating a virtual inspection of an insurable area, the method including the steps of:
- receiving an indication of a request from a user at a user mobile device to perform a virtual inspection of an insurable area;
determining one or more information items needed with respect to the insurable area;
providing a set of instructions to the user at the mobile device for capturing one or more image items based on the determined one or more information items;
receiving a set of image items from the mobile device in response to the instructions; and
providing an insurance decision for the insurable area based on the received set of image items.
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Abstract
A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for facilitating a virtual inspection of an insurable area, the method including the steps of receiving an indication of a request from a user at a user mobile device to perform a virtual inspection of an insurable area, determining one or more information items needed with respect to the insurable area, providing a set of instructions to the user at the mobile device for capturing one or more image items based on the determined one or more information items, receiving a set of image items from the mobile device in response to the instructions and providing an insurance decision for the insurable area based on the received set of image items.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating a virtual inspection of an insurable area, the method including the steps of:
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receiving an indication of a request from a user at a user mobile device to perform a virtual inspection of an insurable area; determining one or more information items needed with respect to the insurable area; providing a set of instructions to the user at the mobile device for capturing one or more image items based on the determined one or more information items; receiving a set of image items from the mobile device in response to the instructions; and providing an insurance decision for the insurable area based on the received set of image items. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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3. The method of claim I, wherein determining the one or more information items is performed by:
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accessing a set of existing information provided regarding the insurable area; and identifying the one or more information items, wherein the one or more information items provide additional information needed to verify or complete the existing information.
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18. A system for facilitating a virtual inspection of an insurable area, the system comprising:
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a client application installed at a user mobile device; and a server for hosting the client application, the server comprising; one or more processors; and a machine-readable medium including instructions stored therein, which when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including; receiving a request from the mobile device to perform a virtual inspection of a insurable area; determining one or more information items needed with respect to the insurable area; providing a set of instructions to the user at the mobile device for capturing one or more image items based on the determined one or more information items; receiving a set of image items from the mobile device in response to the instructions; analyzing the set of image items; and extracting at least one of the one or more information items from the set of image items. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method for facilitating a virtual inspection of an insurable area, the method including the steps of:
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receiving an indication of a request from a user at a user mobile device to perform a virtual inspection of an insurable area; determining one or more information items needed with respect to the insurable area; providing a set of instructions to the user at the mobile device for capturing one or more image items based on the determined one or more information items, the instructions identifying a list of areas of the insurable area; receiving a set of image items from the mobile device in response to the instructions, the set of image items providing images from one or more of the list of areas of the insurable area; and providing an insurance decision for the insurable area based on the received set of image items. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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Specification