Preference stack

• US 8,433,706 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Issued: 04/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digital Map Products
• Original Assignee: Digital Map Products
• Inventors: Wade, Geoffrey, Reyes, Mark, Nguyen, Henry, Ploski, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): MORRISON, JAY A
• Application Number:
  US13/110,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20110289077A1
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Systems and methods for customizing the display of a set of data using a preference stack interface. The preference stack interface allows a user to interact with an ordered list of criterion objects. Each criterion object corresponds to an attribute of the data set to be presented to the user. In response to a change in the order of the criterion objects in the preference stack, a rendering of the dataset can be updated to differently and visually emphasize items according to which criterion objects each item meets.

Claims

1. A system for customizing a display of real estate data in combination with an interactive map, the real estate data comprising a plurality of property records, the system comprising:

at least one computer processor; and

at least one executable software module configured to, when executed by the at least one computer processor

generate a preference stack comprising a first visual representation of a first property attribute and a second visual representation of a second property attribute;

receive a change in graphical position of either the first visual representation or the second visual representation relative to a graphical position of the other one of the first visual representation and the second visual representation;

based on the changed graphical position, determine that the second property attribute should be given more weight than the first property attribute; and

generate representations of a plurality of property records to be rendered on an interactive map, wherein property records which meet the second property attribute are visually emphasized over property records which meet the first property attribute but do not meet the second property attribute.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the interactive map comprises a map of a geographical region, wherein each of the plurality of property records is associated with a geographical location, and wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to render each of the representations on the map of the geographical region at the geographic location associated with its corresponding property record, wherein representations of property records which meet the second property attribute are visually emphasized over representations of property records which meet the first property attribute but do not meet the second property attribute.

3. A method for customizing a display of a set of data, the method comprising:

generating, by one or more computer processors, a preference stack comprising a plurality of visual indications of criteria, wherein the plurality of visual indications comprise a first visual indication of a first criteria and a second visual indication of a second criteria, and wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria comprise one or more attributes associated with a dataset;

receiving a change in graphical position of either the first visual indication or the second visual indication relative to a graphical position of the other one of the first visual indication and the second visual indication;

based on the changed graphical position, determining that the second criteria should be given more weight than the first criteria; and

generating, by one or more computer processors, representations of items in the dataset, wherein the representations of the items which meet the second criteria are visually emphasized over the representations of the items which meet the first criteria but do not meet the second criteria.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

retrieving the dataset from a datastore, wherein the dataset is a subset of the datastore; and

storing the dataset in a cache.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the visual emphasis comprises one or more of a different color, different boldness, different size, and different opacity.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a selection of the first criteria from a plurality of criteria; and

receiving a selection of the second criteria from the plurality of criteria.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving one or more selections of additional criteria from the plurality of criteria, wherein each of the selections of the first criteria, the second criteria, and the additional criteria is classified as either mandatory or non-mandatory criteria, and wherein generating representations of items in the data set comprises generating representations of only the items in the dataset which meet at least one of the mandatory criteria.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

providing a plurality of criteria, wherein each of the plurality of criteria comprises one or more attributes associated with the dataset;

associating each of two or more of the items in the dataset with one or more tags, the one or more tags indicating which of the plurality of criteria are met by the associated item; and

associating each of the two or more items with a score based on the associated one or more tags;

wherein generating representations of the items in the dataset comprises generating at least one of the representations of the two or more items to be different than a representation of another of the two or more items based on their associated scores.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein the datastore is a remote datastore, wherein the dataset is retrieved from the remote datastore over one or more networks, and wherein the cache is a local cache.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein the change in graphical position of either the first visual indication or the second visual indication comprises a drag-and-drop interaction with either the first visual indication or the second visual indication.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the drag-and-drop interaction comprises changing an ordering of the first visual indication and the second visual indication in the preference stack.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting a mouse-over event of one of the plurality of visual indications;

in response to the mouse-over event, removing representations of items in the dataset, from a display, which do not meet a criteria associated with the moused-over visual indication;

detecting a mouse-out event of the moused-over visual indication; and

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in response to the mouse-out event, redisplaying the removed representations of items.

13. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria are associated with a weight, and the first visual indication and the second visual indication are graphically positioned in the preference stack according to the weight of their corresponding criteria.

14. The method of claim 3, wherein the preference stack further comprises a first statistic and a second statistic, wherein the first statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the first criteria and the second statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the second criteria.

15. A system for customizing a display of a set of data, the system comprising:

at least one computer processor; and

at least one executable software module configured to, when executed by the at least one computer processor;

generate representations of items in a dataset;

generate a preference stack comprising a plurality of visual representations of criteria, wherein the plurality of visual representations comprise a first visual representation of a first criteria and a second visual representation of a second criteria, and wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria comprise one or more attributes associated with the dataset;

receive a change in graphical position of either the first visual representation or the second visual representation relative to a graphical position of the other one of the first visual representation and the second visual representation;

based on the changed graphical position, determine that the second criteria should be given more weight than the first criteria; and

based on the determination that the second criteria should be given more weight than the first criteria, update the representations of the items of the dataset, wherein items which meet the second criteria are visually emphasized over items which meet the first criteria but do not meet the second criteria.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

receive a selection of the first criteria from a plurality of criteria; and

receive a selection of the second criteria from the plurality of criteria.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

receive one or more selections of additional criteria from the plurality of criteria, wherein each of the selections of the first criteria, the second criteria, and the additional criteria is classified as either mandatory or non-mandatory criteria; and

generate the representations of the items in the data set by generating representations of only the items in the dataset which meet at least one of the mandatory criteria.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

provide a plurality of criteria, wherein each of the plurality of criteria comprises one or more attributes associated with the dataset;

associate each of two or more of the items in the dataset with one or more tags, the one or more tags indicating which of the plurality of criteria are met by the associated item;

associate each of the two or more items with a score based on the associated one or more tags; and

generate a representation of at least one of the two or more items to be different than a representation of another of the two or more items based on their associated scores.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

retrieve the dataset from a datastore, wherein the dataset is a subset of the datastore; and

store the dataset in a cache.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the change in graphical position of either the first visual representation or the second visual representation comprises a drag-and-drop interaction with either the first visual representation or the second visual representation.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the drag-and-drop interaction comprises changing an order of the first visual representation and the second visual representation in the preference stack.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the at least one executable software module is further configured to:

detect a mouse-over event of one of the plurality of visual representations;

in response to the mouse-over event, remove representations of items in the dataset, from a display, which do not meet a criteria associated with the moused-over visual representation;

detect a mouse-out event of the moused-over visual indication; and

,

in response to the mouse-out event, redisplay the removed representations of items.

23. The system of claim 15, wherein each of the first criteria and the second criteria are associated with a weight, and the first visual representation and the second visual representation are graphically positioned in the preference stack according to the weight of their corresponding criteria.

24. The system of claim 15, wherein the preference stack further comprises a first statistic and a second statistic, wherein the first statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the first criteria and the second statistic comprises a count of items in the dataset which meet the second criteria.

25. The system of claim 19, wherein the datastore is a remote datastore, wherein the dataset is retrieved from the remote datastore over one or more networks, and wherein the cache is a local cache.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the at least one executable software module is configured to access the dataset in the local cache to update the representations of the items in the dataset.

27. The system of claim 15, wherein the visual emphasis comprises one or more of a different color, different boldness, different size, and different opacity.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

receiving a second change in graphical position of one of the plurality of visual indications of criteria relative to graphical positions of other ones of the plurality of visual indications of criteria;

based on the second change in graphical position, re-weighting one or more of the criteria; and

accessing the dataset in the local cache to update representations of items in the dataset, wherein the representations of a subset of the items are visually emphasized over the representations of one or more other subsets of the items.