INTERACTIVE BUILDING STACKING PLAN USER INTERFACE

• US 20150228038A1
• Filed: 10/22/2014
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stevenson Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Stevenson Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Stevenson, Peter L., Olson, Nathaniel S., Nista, Jim
• Granted Patent: US 10,467,714 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0645 Rental transactions; Leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/163 Real estate management

Abstract

A method for presenting an interactive stacking plan of a building with one or more floors of leasable space is disclosed. A request for stacking plan graphical elements is transmitted from the client computer system to the server computer system. Each of the stacking plan graphical elements correspond to a leased or purchased space represented by a master tenant or occupant record defined by a plurality of tenant or occupant record attributes. The stacking plan graphical elements are received, and an output thereof is generated for each of the master tenant or occupant records with a size proportional to a leased or owned space specified in the leased or purchased space identifier attribute and a user-activatable link that generates an independent display of at least one of the master tenant or occupant record attributes. The stacking plan graphical elements may be interacted with in various ways.

Claims

1. A method for presenting on a client computer system an interactive stacking plan of a building with one or more floors of available space, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting a request for stacking plan graphical elements from the client computer system to the server computer system, each of the stacking plan graphical elements corresponding to an available space represented by a master tenant record defined by a plurality of tenant record attributes including at least a floor identifier attribute, a tenant identifier attribute, and a leased space identifier attribute, the master tenant record being stored in a master building database in communication with the server computer system;

receiving the stacking plan graphical elements on the client computer system;

generating on the client computer system an output of the stacking plan graphical elements for each of the master tenant records with a size proportional to a leased space specified in the leased or space identifier attribute and a user-activatable link that generates an independent display of at least one of the master tenant record attributes, the stacking plan graphical elements being arranged according to the floor identifier attributes of the corresponding master tenant records;

receiving an input corresponding to a modification of a horizontal size of a first one of the stacking plan graphical elements; and

adjusting on the client computer system the horizontal size of the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements without revising the leased space identifier attribute of a corresponding first one of the master tenant records.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adjusting horizontal sizes of other stacking plan graphical elements having the same floor identifier attribute as the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements proportionally and in response to the received input modifying the size of the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an input corresponding to a modification of a vertical size of the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements; and

adjusting the vertical size of first one of the stacking plan graphical elements and the other stacking plan graphical elements having the same floor identifier attribute as the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the leased space identifier attribute defines a usable square footage of a particular space in the building leased by a tenant specified by the tenant identifier attribute.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting to the client computer system external data stored in the master building database in association with a specified one of the master tenant records.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the external data is selected from a group consisting of a multimedia file, an image file, a sequence of photographic three-dimensional walkthrough images, a document file, metadata, and a user-generated note.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the external data is included in the independent display generated in response to a user input activating the user-activatable link.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a visual appearance of the stacking plan graphical elements are user-defined.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a visual appearance of the stacking plan graphical elements are based upon a remaining lease duration

10. The method of claim 1, wherein a visual appearance of the stacking plan graphical elements are based upon purchased data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a visual appearance of the stacking plan graphical elements are based upon a tenant industry designation.

12. A method for presenting on a client computer system an interactive stacking plan of a building with one or more floors of leasable space, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting a request for stacking plan graphical elements from the client computer system to the server computer system, each of the stacking plan graphical elements corresponding to a leased space represented by a master tenant record defined by a plurality of tenant record attributes including at least a floor identifier attribute, a tenant identifier attribute, and a leased space identifier attribute, the master tenant record being stored in a master building database in communication with the server computer system;

receiving the stacking plan graphical elements on the client computer system;

generating on the client computer system an output of the stacking plan graphical elements for each of the master tenant records with a size proportional to a leased space specified in the leased space identifier attribute and a user-activatable link that generates an independent display of at least one of the master tenant record attributes, the stacking plan graphical elements being arranged according to the floor identifier attributes of the corresponding master tenant records with each row associated with a particular value of the floor identifier attributes;

receiving an input corresponding to a movement of a first one of the stacking plan graphical elements from a first row to a second row;

visually removing the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements from the first row; and

visually adding the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements to the second row.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

adjusting horizontal sizes of other stacking plan graphical elements in the second row in response to the received movement of the first one of the stacking plan graphical the size of the first one of the stacking plan graphical elements.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the leased space identifier attribute defines a usable square footage of a particular space in the building leased or owned by a tenant specified by the tenant identifier attribute.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

transmitting to the client computer system external data stored in the master building database in association with a specified one of the master tenant records.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the external data is selected from a group consisting of a multimedia file, an image file, a sequence of photographic three-dimensional walkthrough images, a document file, metadata, and a user-generated note.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the external data is included in the independent display generated in response to a user input activating the user-activatable link.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein a visual appearance of the stacking plan graphical elements are user-defined.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein a visual appearance of the stacking plan graphical elements are based upon a remaining lease duration.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein a visual appearance of the stacking plan graphical elements are based upon a tenant industry designation.