Systems and methods for a home market alert service

• US 9,497,795 B1
• Filed: 04/01/2008
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Original Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Inventors: Billman, Bradly Jay, Oakes, Charles Lee III, Medina, Reynaldo III, Bueche, Michael Patrick Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimesh
• Application Number:
  US12/060,416
• Time in Patent Office: 3,150 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3, 705/1, 705/14.5, 705/14.58, 705/14.63, 705/14.66, 705/26, 705/313, 707/6.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/26 Special purpose or proprietary protocols or architectures network applications for proprietary or special purpose networking environments H04L67/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a method, system, and computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for notifying a user of available realty in proximity to the user'"'"'s approximate current location. In an embodiment, a triggering location region is defined based on the user'"'"'s approximate current location. The triggering location region includes a second location that is associated with another person'"'"'s profile that correlates with the user'"'"'s profile. An alert is automatically provided to the user if available realty is within the defined triggering location region. In another embodiment, if available realty within the triggering location region meets the user'"'"'s preferred criteria, information about the available realty may be automatically provided to the user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a buyer profile associated with a buyer, the buyer having a mobile device including a processor and location-determining equipment, the buyer profile indicative of a buyer characteristic and a realty criteria;

determining a current location of the buyer based on the location-determining equipment;

identifying a plurality of resident profiles indicative of resident characteristics based on resident locations associated with the resident profiles;

comparing the buyer profile to the plurality of resident profiles associated with a plurality of resident to determine a correlation between the buyer characteristic and the resident characteristics;

identifying based on the correlation a correlated resident profile associated with a correlated resident among the plurality of residents, the correlated resident profile having a correlated resident characteristic that correlates to the buyer characteristic associated with the buyer profile;

defining, using the processor, a trigger location based on a residence of the correlated resident;

determining, using the processor, realty available within the trigger location and based on the realty criteria;

determining that the current location of the buyer is within a predetermined distance of the realty; and

based on determining that the current location of the buyer is within the predetermined distance of the realty, transmitting an alert to the buyer indicating the realty available within the trigger location,

the buyer characteristic and resident characteristics include at least one of traffic, noise, kid-friendliness, road conditions, landlord responsiveness, a resident name, a resident age, a resident profession, a resident employer, a residential marital status, a resident salary range, a resident family status, a resident educational affiliation, or a resident military affiliation, and

the realty criteria includes at least one of a number of bedrooms, a price, a square footage, whether a property is for sale or for rent, a school district, a crime rate, or a zoning status.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a set of realty search criteria from at least one of a user or a third party; and

removing the realty from the alert based on the realty search criteria.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising suppressing the alert based on a previous alert related to the realty.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving information about the realty available within the trigger location.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising deleting information about the realty available within the trigger location after a predetermined time period.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert is provided by a service that maintains realty information.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting an alert indicating the realty available within the trigger location comprises transmitting an alert to a second computer different from the computer.

20. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

defining a rank for the triggering location, wherein the rank corresponds to a number of correlated resident profiles within the triggering location.

7. A system, comprising:

a location determination module that determines a current buyer location; and

a recommend locations module communicatively coupled to the location determination module and associated with a networked computer executing instructions read from a storage medium to;

receive a current buyer location of a user from the location determination module;

identify a buyer at the current buyer location having a buyer profile, the buyer profile indicative of a buyer characteristic and a realty criteria;

identify a plurality of resident profiles indicative of resident characteristics based on other locations associated with the resident profiles;

compare the buyer profile to the plurality of resident profiles to determine a correlation between the buyer characteristic and the resident characteristics;

identify based on the correlation a correlated resident profile associated with a correlated resident among the plurality of residents, the correlated resident profile having a correlated resident characteristic that correlates to the buyer characteristic associated with the buyer profile;

define a trigger location that is associated with the correlated resident profile;

determine realty available within the trigger location;

determine that current buyer location is within a predetermined distance of the realty; and

based on determining that the current buyer location is within the predetermined distance of the realty, transmit an alert indicating the realty available within the trigger location,

the buyer characteristic and resident characteristics include at least one of traffic, noise, kid-friendliness, road conditions, landlord responsiveness, a resident name, a resident age, a resident profession, a resident employer, a residential marital status, a resident salary range, a resident family status, a resident educational affiliation, or a resident military affiliation, and

the realty criteria includes at least one of a number of bedrooms, a price, a square footage, whether a property is for sale or for rent, a school district, a crime rate, or a zoning status.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the buyer sets an outer bound of the predetermined distance of the realty.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the current buyer location is dynamic and moves with the buyer.

10. The system of claim 7, further comprising identifying at least one cluster of realty based on the correlation, the cluster of realty including the realty.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising extending the predetermined distance to include the realty cluster based on a statistical calculation, the realty cluster is near an outer bound of the predetermined distance before extending.

12. The system of claim 10, further comprising representing at least the realty cluster according to a heat map.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions comprising:

identifying a buyer having a buyer profile including a buyer characteristic and a realty criteria;

identifying a resident profile having a resident characteristic that correlates to the buyer characteristic associated with to the buyer profile;

defining a trigger location that is associated with the resident

profile;

determining realty available within the trigger location;

defining a predetermined distance based at least in part on input from the buyer;

determining that a current location of the buyer is within the predetermined distance of the realty, the current location moves with the buyer; and

based on determining that the current location of the buyer is within the predetermined distance of the realty, transmitting an alert indicating the realty available within the trigger location,

the buyer characteristic and resident characteristics include at least one of traffic, noise, kid-friendliness, road conditions, landlord responsiveness, a resident name, a resident age, a resident profession, a resident employer, a residential marital status, a resident salary range, a resident family status, a resident educational affiliation, or a resident military affiliation, and

the realty criteria includes at least one of a number of bedrooms, a price, a square footage, whether a property is for sale or for rent, a school district, a crime rate, or a zoning status.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising receiving a set of realty search criteria from at least one of the buyer or a third party.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the set of realty search criteria is at least one of objective information or subjective information.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the alert is received on a device associated with the buyer.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, the instructions further comprise receiving information about the realty available within the trigger location.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein information about the realty available within the trigger location is maintained in a database remote to the current location associated with the buyer.