Construction brokerage system

• US 7,610,234 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2001
• Issued: 10/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kiyomi Moriyama, Takashi Moriyama
• Original Assignee: Kiyomi Moriyama, Takashi Moriyama
• Inventors: Moriyama, Takashi, Moriyama, Kiyomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Havan; Thu-Thao
• Application Number:
  US09/858,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20010056355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,085 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/35, 705/80, 705 37- 38
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

Customer information including construction commission information from customers who make access through communication lines and/or the Internet is collected and disclosed onto the Internet. Agent information including proposals from agents who have browsed the disclosed customer information is also collected through communication lines and/or the Internet and disclosed to the customers. This makes the information collection between the customers and agents smoother, expands the range of business operations by the agents, and increases the range of selections by the customers for more satisfactory agent selections.

Claims

1. A construction brokerage system comprising:

customer request inputting means for inputting one or more customer requests from one or more customers who make access through a communication line or the Internet;

customer request collecting means for collecting the one or more customer requests from the one or more customers, wherein the one or more customer requests is stored in a database in a predetermined format;

customer request disclosing means for disclosing said one or more customer requests to the Internet in a form of an online audition or competition;

customer proposal inputting means for inputting constructor proposals through a communication line or the Internet, said constructor proposals including one or more proposals from one or more constructors who has browsed said one or more customer requests disclosed, wherein the proposals varies based on the one or more customer requests;

constructor proposal collecting means for collecting the constructor proposals through the communication line or the Internet, wherein the constructor proposals are stored in a database and is retrievable for different customers; and

constructor proposal disclosing means for disclosing said constructor proposals collected to an appropriate one or more of said customers for deciding a constructor by transmitting said constructor proposals to said appropriate one or more of said customers through a communication line or the Internet to be viewed on a computer or communications terminal by said appropriate one or more of said customers, wherein the disclosed proposal is in a form of online presentation.

2. The construction brokerage system according to claim 1, wherein:

said customer request collecting means and said constructor proposal collecting means comprise a guiding unit sending a guide message in response to the access from said one or more customers and said one or more constructors through a communication line or the Internet, a receiving unit receiving communications or e-mails from said one or more customers and said one or more constructors, a data collecting unit collecting said customer requests and constructor proposals from among responses and/or the contents of communications from said one or more customers and said one or more constructors, and a database storing collected information in a predetermined format; and

said customer request disclosing means and said constructor proposal disclosing means comprise a data summarizing and analyzing unit reading said one or more customer requests and constructor proposals stored in said database at predetermined time intervals for summarization and analysis, an information disclosing unit disclosing said summarized and analyzed customer and constructor information through a communication line or the Internet, and an information transmitting unit transmitting said summarized and analyzed customer and constructor information through a communication line or the Internet to at least one of said one or more customers and said one or more constructors.

3. The construction brokerage system according to claim 2, wherein

said customer request collecting means and said constructor proposal collecting means include a data collating unit collating data received from said one or more customers and constructors with existing data to check for past inquiries and/or applications, as well as professional qualifications.

4. The construction brokerage system according to claim 1, further comprising a database summarizing and analyzing means for reading the one or more customer request and the constructor proposals stored in the database in a predetermined time intervals to summarize and analyze the one or more customer request and the constructor proposals under predetermined conditions.