System for facilitating home construction and sales

• US 5,991,769 A
• Filed: 08/27/1997
• Issued: 11/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hall Data Sync Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Pulte Home Corporation (Pultegroup Incorporated)
• Inventors: Fino, Timothy A., Hall, Stephan E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coby, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US08/919,091
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: 345/425, 345/133, 345/141, 707/104
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/163 Real estate management
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

A system for facilitating the information transfer and processing associated with home construction and home sales. Various discrete software modules are disclosed each handling a specific task associated with home construction and sales. Also, a system for communicating between separate data bases is disclosed wherein separate and distinct sales offices, each having their own data base, may communicate with a parent, market office having its own data base wherein the data bases of the sales offices and the market office are synchronized according to the method of the present invention so that any data updates in any of the sales offices would be automatically updated in the associated market offices. This aspect of the present invention allows a corporation responsible for home construction and sales amongst various regional, market, and sales offices to coordinate a plurality of discretely separate data bases in a way such that they are all synchronized with one another at a predetermined time.

Claims

1. A system for displaying plat status information to a viewer, comprising:

displaying, on a video display terminal, a plurality of polygons, each polygon representing a respectively associated plat,

selecting a status in association with each plat,

displaying upon each of said polygons a coding indicia indicative of the status assigned to the plat of each respectively associated polygon.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said status relates to the completion of discrete phases of constructing a home respectively associated with each said plat.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said status relates to the completion of discrete phases of selling a home respectively associated with each said plat.

4. A system for facilitating tracking information associated with selling and constructing homes, comprising:

computer means,

means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying plat information relating to said homes,

means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying information related to the design of said homes,

means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying information related to options associated with said homes,

means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying mortgage information relating to the purchase of said homes,

means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying information related to a contract associated with the sale of said homes.