Lodging and real property in a geo-spatial mapping environment

• US 20070219712A1
• Filed: 01/12/2007
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raj Abhyanker, Raj Abhyanker Professional Corporation
• Original Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj Vasant
• Application Number:
  US11/653,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20070219712A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/208
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A method, apparatus and system of lodging and real property in a geo-spatial mapping environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes associating a user with the real property in the geo-spatial environment when the user claims the real property, concurrently displaying a profile of the user and/or the real property in the geo-spatial environment in a map, simultaneously generating, in the map, wiki profiles associated with different real properties surrounding the real property claimed by the user and/or marking a status of the real property claimed by the user in the geo-spatial environment as being available through an indicator expressing an availability status of the real property.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

associating a user with a real property in a geo-spatial environment when the user claims the real property;

concurrently displaying a profile of the user and the real property in the geo-spatial environment in a map;

simultaneously generating in the map, wiki profiles associated with different real properties surrounding the real property claimed by the user; and

marking a status of the real property claimed by the user in the geo-spatial environment as being available through an indicator expressing an availability status of the real property.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

modifying the availability status to a for-sale-by-owner status;

applying a meta-data to the real property indicating at least one of a price, a duration, a physical characteristic, and a condition of the real property;

geo-spatially determining which of a set of providers have an availability to deliver and install a lawn sign to a physical location of the real property based on a confirmation request of the user;

automatically generating a marketing flyer having details of the real property in a print and web form; and

generating a customized postcard mailer to be distributed through physical mail of the marketing flyer to neighbors surrounding the real property with for those addresses which are not associated with users currently having electronic communication information in the geo-spatial environment.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

transforming the availability status to a retained agent status based on a request of the user;

geo-spatially applying an agency profile of the retained agent to the real property such that the agency profile appears concurrently with the real property and is surrounded by wiki profiles in the map; and

syndicating the real property across a realtor multiple listing service database upon request of the user.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

modifying the availability status to a for rent status; and

applying a meta-data indicating at least one of a price, a term, a duration, a physical characteristic, and a condition of the real property to the real property.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

booking a prospective resident of the real property in a particular window of time in the geo-spatial environment when the user selects a social networking profile of another user who has requested the real property as a rental; and

processing a payment of the another user when the another user confirms a booking of the real property on a particular day.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

pre-qualifying prospective buyers who wish to acquire at least one of a tenancy and an ownership interest in the real property;

enabling the prospective buyers to bid on at least one of the tenancy interest and the ownership interest in the real property; and

inviting an optimal one of the prospective buyers to transact the real property with the user.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

previewing, in response to a mouse over of the user, resident and business profiles associated with the different real properties surrounding the real property having both positive and negative wiki-compiled data; and

automatically setting a new latitude and longitude location based on a relocation of a pushpin indicator of the real property when the user relocates a pointer in the geo-spatial environment indicating a physical location of the real property.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising concurrently generating a representation of properties listed in a multiple listing service directly in the geo-spatial environment along with wiki pages and the real property claimed by the user.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising conducting an escrow process directly in the geo-spatial environment including any verifications and audit reporting associated with the real property transaction including at least one of a home inspection reporting, a termite inspection reporting, a flood inspection reporting, a title report auditing, and a disclosure check-off procedure.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising building a community of real estate transaction, verification, and inspection parties to facilitate the escrow process, and providing a recommendation to a chosen few of the real estate transaction, verification, and inspection parties to neighbors of the user through a recommendation interface in the geo-spatial environment.

11. The method claim 1 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 1.

12. A system, comprising:

a plurality of neighborhoods having registered users and unregistered users of a global neighborhood environment;

a lodging module of the global neighborhood environment to enable the registered users of a wiki-based social network overlying a global mapping infrastructure to geo-spatially mark properties that they have claimed as being available in an open market to potentially interested parties; and

a wiki module of the global neighborhood environment to enable the registered users to create a social network page of themselves, and to edit information associated with the unregistered users identifiable through a viewing of physical properties in which the unregistered users reside when the registered users have knowledge of characteristics associated with the unregistered users so that the potentially interested parties have an ability to view a consensus social characteristic of neighbors surrounding a property marked as transactable.

13. The system of claim 12 further comprising:

a search module of the global neighborhood environment to enable a people search, a business search, and a category search of any data in a lodging module and to enable embedding of any content in the global neighborhood environment in other search engines, blogs, social networks, professional networks and static websites.

14. The system of claim 12 further comprising:

a for-sale-by-owner module of the global neighborhood environment to modify an availability status to a for-sale-by-owner status, to apply a meta-data indicating at least one of a price, a duration, a physical characteristic, and a condition of a real property being marketed to the real property;

a delivery module of the global neighborhood environment to geo-spatially determine which of a set of providers have an availability to deliver, and install a physical marker in a physical location of the real property based on a confirmation request of a user, and to automatically generate a marketing flyer having details of the real property in a print and web form; and

a pushpin module to automatically set a new latitude and longitude location based on a relocation of a pushpin indicator of the real property when the user relocates a pointer in a geo-spatial environment indicating the physical location of the real property.

15. The system of claim 14 further comprising:

a retained agent module of the global neighborhood environment to transform the availability status to a retained agent status based on a request of the user, and to geo-spatially apply an agency profile of the retained agent to the real property such that the agency profile appears concurrently with the real property and is surrounded by wiki profiles in a map; and

a syndication module of the global neighborhood environment to publish the real property across a realtor multiple listing service database upon request of the user.

16. The system of claim 12 further comprising:

a rent module of the global neighborhood environment to modify the availability status to a for rent status and to apply a meta-data indicating at least one of a price, a term, a duration, a physical characteristic, and a condition of a real property to the real property; and

a paying guest module of the global neighborhood environment to book a prospective resident of the real property in the global neighborhood environment in a particular window of time when the user selects a social networking profile of another user who has requested the real property as a rental, and to process a payment of the another user when the another user confirms a booking of the real property on a particular day.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising:

a bidding module of the global neighborhood environment to pre-qualify prospective buyers who wish to acquire at least one of a tenancy and an ownership interest in the real property, to enable the prospective buyers to bid on at least one of the tenancy interest and the ownership interest in the real property, and to invite an optimal one of the prospective buyers to transact the real property with the user.

18. The system of claim 12 further comprising:

a multiple listing module of the global neighborhood environment to incorporate a representation of properties listed in a multiple listing service directly in a geo-spatial environment along with wiki pages and a real property claimed by a user;

an escrow module of the global neighborhood environment to perform verifications and audit reporting associated with a real property transaction including at least one of a home inspection reporting, a termite inspection reporting, a flood inspection reporting, a title report auditing, and a disclosure check-off procedure; and

a recommendation module of the global neighborhood environment to build a community of real estate transaction, verification, and inspection parties to facilitate an escrow process, and to provide a recommendation to a chosen few of a real estate transaction, verification, and inspection parties to neighbors of the user through a recommendation interface in the geo-spatial environment.

19. A global neighborhood environment, comprising:

a first instruction set to visualize real property tenancy and for sale availability and to reside above a map data, in which a social network underlies a visualization network in that each prospective lister and bidder of a real property is expressible to one and other in a geo-spatial environment;

a second instruction set integrated with the first instruction set to enable users of the social network to mark owned ones of their properties as being available as rental properties and for sale and which provides a positive and negative user generated content of neighbors surrounding the owned ones of the properties being available as the rental properties and for sale;

a third instruction set to provide a free form of expression of the users sharing information about any entities and people residing in any geographical location identifiable in a satellite map data, and to provide a technique of each of the users to claim the geographic location to control content in their respective claimed geographic locations; and

a fourth instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set to enable global exploration of properties being marketed in the geo-spatial environment by indexing each of the data shared by the users of any of the people and entities residing in any geographic location.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising a fifth instruction set to schedule delivery of physical goods and services to listers and bidders in the geo-spatial environment based on user generated requests in the geo-spatial environment at a pre, during, and post transaction event.