SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS USING BEACONS

• US 20160034996A1
• Filed: 07/31/2014
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Min, Eric Byungho
• Application Number:
  US14/449,048
• Publication Number:
  US 20160034996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for facilitating real estate transactions using beacons. One or more beacons at a property that is offered for sale by a seller may communicate with a user device of one or more potential buyers of the property when the user devices are at the property and in proximity to the beacons. The beacons may provide property information to the potential buyer and/or may receive buyer information from the user device. The buyer information may be provided to an agent device of a real estate agent at the property or to a seller device and may be processed to determine whether additional property information will be provided to the potential buyer. The property information may include marketing documentation, a survey, or seller'"'"'s disclosure. The buyer information may include documents showing loan pre-qualification or contact information for the potential buyer.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a hardware memory storing information about a property;

one or more beacons at the property; and

one or more hardware processors in communication with the hardware memory and the one or more beacons and configured to;

determine that a user that is a potential buyer of the property is at the property based on communications between a user device of the user and the one or more beacons;

receive user information from the user device via the one or more beacons; and

provide at least a portion of the information about the property to the user device via the one or more beacons.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the portion of the information about the property includes marketing information for the property.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the user information includes loan pre-qualification information of the user.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured to provide the portion of the information about the property to the user device based on the user information.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to provide, based on the loan pre-qualification information, an additional portion of the information about the property to the user device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the additional portion of the information about the property comprises a seller'"'"'s disclosure.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured to provide the portion of the information by determining a buyer score based on the loan pre-qualification information and providing, based on the buyer score, only the marketing information to the user device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the portion of the information about the property includes guidance information generated based on a location of the user and at least one user preference.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising the user device, wherein the user device comprises an additional processor configured to organize the provided information about the property and additional property information associated with additional properties.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an agent device of a real estate agent for a seller of the property, wherein the agent device is configured to receive at least a portion of the user information from the one or more beacons.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a seller device of a seller of the property, wherein the seller device is configured to receive at least a portion of the user information and additional user information associated with additional users that have visited the property.

12. A method, comprising:

storing, with a hardware memory, information about a property;

determining, with one or more hardware processors in communication with the hardware memory and with one or more beacons at the property, that a user that is a potential buyer of the property is at the property based on communications between a user device of the user and the one or more beacons;

receiving, with the one or more hardware processors, user information from the user device via the one or more beacons; and

providing, with the one or more hardware processors, at least a portion of the information about the property to the user device via the one or more beacons.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising providing at least a portion of the user information to an agent device of an agent of a seller of the property.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the portion of the user information includes an identifier of the user.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the portion of the user information includes an image of the user.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the portion of the user information includes property preferences of the user.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising providing a welcome message, including the portion of the information about the property, to the user responsive to the determining.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, in response to execution by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform a method comprising:

storing information about a property;

determining that a user that is a potential buyer of the property is at the property based on communications between a user device of the user and one or more beacons at the property;

receiving, at one of the one or more beacons, user information from the user device via the one or more beacons; and

providing, with the one of the one or more beacons, at least a portion of the information about the property to the user device.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the method further comprises guiding the user through the property based on a location of the user determined using the one or more beacons.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured to determine that the user that is the potential buyer of the property is at the property based on the communications between the user device of the user and the one or more beacons when the user device of the user is in proximity to at least one of the one or more beacons and in communication with the at least one of the one or more beacons using one of near field communication, radio communication, infrared communication, Bluetooth communication, cellular communication, global positioning system communication, and Bluetooth low energy communication.