HOMEOWNER SYSTEM AND PORTAL

• US 20160300316A1
• Filed: 04/08/2016
• Published: 10/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyphen Solutions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Hyphen Solutions, LLC
• Inventors: Beseda, Brent Byron, Sugg, Christopher Forrest, Vasquez, Felix Jr.
• Application Number:
  US15/094,822
• Publication Number:
  US 20160300316A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/012 Providing warranty services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate

Abstract

Embodiments of systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for capturing, managing, presenting, and maintaining information about a home are disclosed. A server may generate notifications associated with the project. The notifications may prompt the recipient to capture media content associated with the project. The notification may include a selectable element that, when selected, launches and controls a camera application for capturing the media content, and may indicate various types of media content to be captured. Once the media content has been captured, the media content may be reviewed for compliance with one or more rules, and, once captured and verified for rules compliance, may be provided to a server configured to present the media content and other information associated with a home or project to a user, such as a homeowner.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for capturing and providing media content associated with a home, the operations comprising:

receiving a notification requesting media content for the home, wherein the notification includes an identifier that identifies the home, and includes a selectable element that, when selected, controls a camera application of a mobile device to capture the media content;

displaying the notification to a user of the mobile device;

detecting a selection of the selectable element included in the notification;

in response to detecting the selection of the selectable element, launching the camera application of the mobile device;

capturing one or more items of media content using the camera application of the mobile device;

determining whether to provide the one or more items of media content to a remote database based on whether the one or more items of media content satisfy at least one rule, wherein the remote database stores items of media content for presentation in one or more galleries;

in response to a determination that the one or more items of media content satisfy the at least one rule, providing the one or more items of media content to the remote database, wherein the one or more items of media content, when provided to the remote database, are stored in association with the identifier that identifies the home; and

presenting the one or more items of media content stored at the remote database in a gallery interface.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein determining whether to provide the one or more images to the remote database comprises:

presenting the at least one rule to the user of the mobile device; and

receiving at least one input from the user, the at least one input indicating whether the at least one rule is satisfied.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the at least one rule specifies a threshold image quality.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the at least one rule indicates whether contents of the media content comply with laws and/or regulations promulgated by a governmental agency, a professional organization, or both.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the at least one rule indicates whether an item of media content depict an undesired item.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein determining whether to provide the one or more items of media content to the remote database is performed automatically by an application executing on the mobile device without human intervention based on the at least one rule.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the notification includes task information that indicates a threshold number of items of media content to be captured, and specifies one or more views of the home that are to be depicted in the media content.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise sending an additional notification to a person associated with the home, the additional notification based on at least part of the information contained in the one or more items of media content.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more items of media content comprise work progress information for the home.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more items of media content comprise warranty information corresponding to at least one item of the home.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise displaying a request to the user of the mobile device to capture at least one additional item of media content representative of the home in response to a determination that none of the previously captured one or more items of media content satisfy the at least one rule.

12. A method for capturing and providing media content depicting construction of a home, the method comprising:

providing an application to a mobile device, the application configured to;

receive a notification requesting media content for the home, wherein the notification includes an identifier that identifies the home, and includes a selectable element that, when selected, controls a camera application of a mobile device to capture the media content;

display the notification to a user of the mobile device;

detect a selection of the selectable element included in the notification;

in response to detecting the selection of the selectable element, the camera application of the mobile device;

capture one or more items of media content using the camera application of the mobile device;

determine whether to provide the one or more items of media content to a remote database based on whether the one or more items of media content satisfy at least one rule, wherein the remote database stores items of media content for presentation in one or more galleries; and

provide the one or more items of media content to the remote database in response to a determination that the one or more items of media content satisfy the at least one rule, wherein the one or more items of media content, when provided to the remote database, are stored in association with the identifier that identifies the home; and

receiving the one or more items of media content from the mobile device via the application installed on the mobile device;

storing the one or more items of media content at the database, wherein the one or more items of media content are stored in association with the identifier that identifies the home; and

presenting the one or more items of media content stored at the remote database in a gallery interface.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

generating the notification; and

sending the notification to the mobile device via a network.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising sending an additional notification to a person associated with the home, the additional notification based on at least part of the information contained in the one or more items of media content.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more items of media content comprise work progress information for the home during its construction.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the application includes one or more interfaces for managing, modifying, updating, and viewing the media content stored at the remote database.

17. A system for capturing, managing, and distributing information and media content for a home, the system comprising:

a server configured to;

selectively provide a first interface or a second interface to a user based on login information, wherein;

the first interface is provided when the login information indicates that the user is a homeowner, the first interface configured to;

provide access to one or more gallery interfaces comprising media content associated with the homeowner'"'"'s home;

provide access to a homeowner warranty interface configured to;

receive inputs from a homeowner for placing a warranty claim for at least one item of the home;

provide information regarding one or more warranty claims placed by the homeowner; and

provide a notification interface for providing one or more notifications regarding the home to the homeowner; and

the second interface is provided when the login information indicates that the user is a home builder, the second interface configured to;

provide access to a home builder warranty interface configured to;

receive inputs for managing one or more warranty claims placed by homeowners;

provide access to a work order interface for creating work orders associated with work tasks to be completed for a home built by the home builder,

wherein various interfaces provided via the first interface and second interface provide additional information to both the homeowner and the home builder, and wherein different ones of the various interfaces hide at least a portion of the additional information from the homeowner, but not the home builder.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the server is further configured to selectively provide a third interface to the user based on the login information when the login information indicates that the user is a contractor.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein at the server is configured to generate and transmit notifications requesting media content for the home, wherein each of the notification includes an identifier that identifies the home, and includes a selectable element that, when selected, controls a camera application of a mobile device to capture the media content.