Systems and methods for a home area recommender

• US 9,953,383 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2017
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Original Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Inventors: Billman, Bradly Jay, Oakes, III, Charles Lee, Medina, III, Reynaldo, Bueche, Jr., Michael Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Truong
• Application Number:
  US15/459,135
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a method, system, and computer-readable storage medium with instructions for recommending locations to a user. Preferred criteria may be selected by the user, for example, or a third party, and provide objective or subjective information that the user is seeking in a location. Embodiments may include compiling objective information with the location and comparing the objective information to preferred criteria. A user'"'"'s profile may be compared to another person'"'"'s profile, where the other person'"'"'s profile is associated to the location. A location may be recommended to the user if the objective information correlates to the preferred criteria and if the other person'"'"'s profile correlates to the user'"'"'s profile. Subjective information associated with the location may be provided to the user along with the recommended location. Furthermore, a location may be recommended to the user if the subjective information correlates to the preferred criteria.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for recommending a property listing, the method being executed by one or more processors and comprising:

receiving preferred criteria from a network device;

compiling information associated with the property listing; and

transmitting the property listing to a user device based on a determination that objective information in the compiled information associated with the property listing correlates to the preferred criteria and that subjective information in the compiled information associated with the property listing correlates to the preferred criteria.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the network device is the user device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the preferred criteria are generated based on a user profile.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein transmitting the property listing to the user device is further based on a determination that at least one item of the user profile correlates to the at least one item in other user profiles, and wherein the other user profiles are associated with other locations in proximity to the property listing.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising receiving a selection for the at least one item from the network device.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein a portion of the compiled subjective information is provided by a social network.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the property listing is a single property location.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the property listing is located in a neighborhood.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the property listing is transmitted to the user device within a list of property listings, and wherein the property listing is ranked within the list of property listings relative to other property listings in the list of property listings based on a level of correlation between the preferred criteria and the compiled objective information associated with the property listing.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the property listing is transmitted to the user device within a list of property listings, and wherein the property listing is ranked within the list of property listings relative to other property listings in the list of property listings based on a level of correlation between the preferred criteria and the compiled subjective information associated with the property listing.

11. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for recommending a property listing the operations comprising:

receiving preferred criteria from a network device;

compiling information associated with the property listing; and

transmitting the property listing to a user device based on a determination that objective information in the compiled information associated with the property listing correlates to the preferred criteria and that subjective information in the compiled information associated with the property listing correlates to the preferred criteria.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 11, wherein the preferred criteria are generated based on a user profile.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 12, wherein transmitting the property listing to the user device is further based on a determination that at least one item of the user profile correlates to the at least one item in other user profiles, and wherein the other user profiles are associated with other locations in proximity to the property listing.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a selection for the at least one item from the network device.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 11, wherein the property listing is transmitted to the user device within a list of property listings, and wherein the property listing is ranked within the list of property listings relative to other property listings in the list of property listings based on a level of correlation between the preferred criteria and the compiled objective information associated with the property listing.

16. A system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a computer-readable storage device coupled to the one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for recommending a property listing the operations comprising;

receiving preferred criteria from a network device;

compiling information associated with the property listing; and

transmitting the property listing to a user device based on a determination that compiled objective information in the compiled information associated with the property listing correlates to the preferred criteria and that compiled subjective information in the compiled information associated with the property listing correlates to the preferred criteria.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the preferred criteria generated based on a user profile.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein transmitting the property listing to the user device is further based on a determination that at least one item of the user profile correlates to the at least one item in other user profiles, and wherein the other user profiles are associated with other locations in proximity to the property listing.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a selection for the at least one item from the network device.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the property listing is transmitted to the user device within a list of property listings, and wherein the property listing is ranked within the list of property listings relative to other property listings in the list of property listings based on a level of correlation between the preferred criteria and the compiled subjective information associated with the property listing.