Method and system for collecting, processing, and distributing residential property data

• US 20060026120A1
• Filed: 03/24/2005
• Published: 02/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Update Publications LP
• Original Assignee: Update Publications LP
• Inventors: Isbell, Maria, Carolan, David B.
• Application Number:
  US11/088,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20060026120A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/316 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification

Abstract

A method for collecting, processing, and distributing residential data. Client accounts are established. A message is transmitted to the client accounts requesting the submission of primary residential data. The primary data is then received, including primary apartment data relating to apartment rental events and primary home data relating to home sale events. The primary residential data is normalized on a real-time basis to cause the primary apartment data and the primary home data of the resulting normalized primary residential data to be comparable on an equivalent basis. This equivalent basis can be described as an “apples-to-apples” to basis. Normalized secondary residential data is generated based on the normalized primary residential data on a real-time basis. The normalized secondary residential data and the normalized primary residential data is enabled to be accessed via a full-time public network on a real-time basis.

Claims

1. A method for collecting, processing, and distributing residential data, the method comprising:

establishing at least one client account;

transmitting a message to the at least one client account requesting the client account to provide primary residential data;

receiving primary residential data from the at least one client account, wherein the primary residential data includes;

primary apartment data relating to at least one apartment rental event;

primary home data relating to at least one home sale event;

normalizing the primary residential data on a real-time basis to cause the primary apartment data and the primary home data of the resulting normalized primary residential data to be comparable on an equivalent basis;

generating normalized secondary residential data based on the normalized primary residential data on a real-time basis; and

enabling the normalized secondary residential data and the normalized primary residential data to be accessed via a full-time public network on a real-time basis.