An innovative web-based tool displays visual information about real estate. In one embodiment, an aerial image is overlaid with various data layers to visually present real estate data. Data associated with various embodiments of the tool can include tax parcel information, historical sales information, Multiple Listing Service information, school information, neighborhood information, and park information.

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›1.independentA method of providing a mapped display of real estate information to a computer user across a network, comprising:nupdating a database of information …+9

›2.↳ 1The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the database of information to store annotations received from the client interface and associated …d2

›3.↳ 1The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying prior sales data associated with the at least one of the plurality of real estate properties.d2

›4.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein the mapped display data further includes visually defined boundary information for the at least one of the plurality of…d2

›5.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein the mapped display data includes a tax parcel overlay on the visually defined real estate property with vector informat…d2

›6.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein the mapped display data further includes data indicating that the at least one of the plurality of real estate properti…d2

›7.↳ 1The method of claim 1, further comprising analyzing data in the se database to predict a sales price for the at least one of the plurality of real est…d2

›8.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein the data received from the client indicate a search for one or more of the plurality of the real estate properties, the…d2

›9.↳ 1The method of claim 1, further comprising visually overlaying school information on the satellite map image within the mapped display data.d2

›10.↳ 1The method of claim 1, further comprising visually overlaying street overlay on the one of the satellite map images within the mapped display data.d2

›11.independentA system for providing a mapped display of real estate information to a client computer user across a network, comprising:nat least one computing syst…+8

A system for providing a mapped display of real estate information to a client computer user across a network, comprising:nat least one computing system that includes:na data set of information related to a plurality of real estate properties, the data set created from selectively aggregating information from multiple sources, including at least satellite map images of the real estate properties and tax information for the real estate properties;an update engine that selectively updates the data set as new data is added to each of the multiple sources;an analytical engine that associates portions of the new data to the information in the data set based at least on matching physical address information associated with the portions of the new data to physical address information associated with the information in the data set; anda geographical information system that creates mapped display data by visually defining at least one of the plurality of real estate properties at a particular geographical location on one of the satellite map images and layering at least some of the portions of the aggregated information that are associated with the particular geographical location over the visually defined at least one of the plurality of real estate properties,a sales trend information system that visually communicates sales trend data by overlaying one or more layers over the mapped display data such that different colors overlaid over the mapped display data indicates different sales trends within a geographical area,wherein the computer system further provides data displayable on a client interface of the client computer across a network, and upon receiving data from the client interface indicating that a request for a mapped display of real estate information for the at least one of the plurality of real estate properties, the geographical information system creates the mapped display data for the at least one of the plurality of real estate properties and the computer system sends the mapped display data to the client computer requesting the mapped display.

›12.↳ 11The system of claim 11, further comprising a user management system that identifies users and manages the interaction of the users with the computer s…d2

›13.↳ 11The system of claim 11, wherein the update engine further updates the data set upon the computer system receiving annotations data from the client int…d2

›14.↳ 11The system of claim 11, wherein the mapped display data further includes prior sales data associated with the at least one of the plurality of real es…d2

›15.↳ 11The system of claim 11, wherein the geographical information system further visually defines boundary information for the at least one of the pluralit…d2

›16.↳ 11The system of claim 11, wherein the geographical information system further layers a tax parcel overlay on the visually defined real estate property, …d2

›17.↳ 11The system of claim 11, wherein the geographical information system further includes within the mapped display data further data indicating that the a…d2

›18.↳ 11The system of claim 11, wherein the analytical engine further analyzes the data set to predict at least one of: a derivative calculation, association,…d2

›19.↳ 11The system of claim 11, wherein the data received from the client interface includes an indication to show similar sales, the geographical information…d2

›20.independentA system for providing a mapped display of real estate information to a client computer user across a network, comprising:nat least one computing syst…+1

A system for providing a mapped display of real estate information to a client computer user across a network, comprising:nat least one computing system that includes:means for storing a data set of information related to a plurality of real estate properties, the data set storing aggregated information from multiple sources, including at least satellite map images of the plurality of real estate properties and tax information for the plurality of real estate properties;means for selectively updating the data set with new data from each of the multiple sources;means for associating portions of the new data to the stored aggregated information based on a match of geographical location information associated with the portions of the new data with geographical location information associated with stored aggregated information;means for creating mapped display data by visually defining at least one of the plurality of real estate properties at a particular geographical location on one of the satellite map images and layering at least some of the portions of the aggregated information that are associated with the particular geographical location, including the tax information, over the at least one visually defined real estate property;means for visually communicating sales trend data by overlaying one or more layers over the mapped display data such that different colors overlaid over the mapped display data indicates different sales trends within a geographical area;means for providing data displayable as a client interface to the client computer across a network;means for receiving data from the client interface indicating a request for a mapped display of real estate information for the at least one of the plurality of real estate properties; andmeans for sending the mapped display data to the client computer requesting the mapped display upon the means for creating mapped display data for the at least one of the plurality of real estate properties creating the mapped display data therefor.

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IPC · International Patent Classification

Section G — Physics

G06Q30/00
G06Q50/16
G06Q50/00
G06F3/0481

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16 Jun 2004

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Type	Document	Date
provisional	US 60580046	16 Jun 2004
related publication	US 20050288957 A1	29 Dec 2005

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