Method and device for real estate mobile and computer application providing real time live GPS location mapping, real estate agent search and real estate services

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method to facilitate a user, interested in buying and selling of a real estate, with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents using a communication device interconnected over a social computing based environment. The method provides through a social computing based means. The means, wherein the user creates a user account and the user account enables the user to access the social computing based means; the social computing based means provides information associated with the user, facilitate communicate and interaction with other users having account associated with the social computing based means. Furthermore the method through the social computing based means provides a means to the user to post at least one information item over the social computing based means, view at least one information item posted by other users and web feeds.

Claims

1. A method to facilitate a user, interested in buying and selling of a real estate, with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents using a communication device interconnected over a social computing based environment, method comprising: providing through a social computing based means, a means to said user to create a user account, wherein said user account enables said user to access said social computing based means; providing through said social computing based means, a means to said user to provide information associated with said user, communicate and interact with other users having account associated with said social computing based means; providing through said social computing based means, a means to said user to post at least one information item over said social computing based means; providing through said social computing based means, a means to said user to view at least one information item posted by other users over said social computing based means; providing through said social computing based means, a means to said user to view web feeds; providing a graphical user interface that is operable to send and receive information associated with said users; receiving, via said graphical user interface operating on said device, a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents, wherein said catalogue is curated based on the geographical distance of said agent from said user; receiving, via said graphical user interface operating on said device, a location of an agent; providing, via said graphical user interface operating on said computing device, a representation of at least one of said agent and said user and the respective location thereof.

2. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said social computing based means comprise an application software.

3. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said social computing based means comprise a website.

4. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said information item is an information related to real estate.

5. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said web feed comprise said at least one information item.

6. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said representation includes a map identifying where said at least one of said user and agent is located.

7. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said information associated with said user identifies between buying or selling

8. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said method further comprise of a mean to search users enlisted in said social computing based environment as real estate agents in real time.

9. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said mean to search users enlisted as real estate agents comprises of geographical location of said real estate agents.

10. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said mean to search users enlisted as real estate agents comprises of ZIP code of said real estate agents.

11. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said means to said user to communicate and interact with other users having account associated with said social computing based means comprises of voice call.

12. The method to facilitate a user with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents as set forth in claim 1, wherein said means to said user to communicate and interact with other users having account associated with said social computing based means comprises of text message.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0018] The drawings constitute a part of this specification, and include exemplary embodiments to the invention, which may be embodied in various forms. It is to be understood that, in some instances, various aspects of the invention may be shown exaggerated or enlarged to facilitate an understanding of the invention.

[0019] FIG. 1. Illustrates a perspective view of the login screen of the invention.

[0020] FIG. 2. Illustrates a perspective view of the user interface with various filters of searching real estate personals in the invention.

[0021] FIG. 3. illustrates a perspective view of the user interface with interactive map locating various users in the invention.

[0022] FIG. 4. illustrates a perspective view of a user profile in the invention.

[0023] FIG. 5. illustrates a perspective view of a user profile with various options in the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE INVENTION

[0024] The following is a detailed description of example embodiments of the invention that is depicted in the accompanying drawings. The example embodiments are in such detail as to clearly communicate the invention. However, the amount of detail offered is not intended to limit the anticipated variations of embodiments. On the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present invention. The detailed descriptions below are designed to make such embodiments obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

[0025] The present invention can be implemented on any communication device that has hardware components that can perform wireless and wired communication, such as (but not limited to)—multi-purpose pocket computers, personal multimedia devices, etc.

[0026] The various devices on which the applications that implement the present invention run may use one or more processors with different instruction-sets, architectures, clock-speeds, etc. and memory that may include high speed random access memory and may include non-volatile memory, such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memory devices, and other kinds of solid state memory devices.

[0027] The various applications that can implement the present invention run on electronic devices that may use at least one physical user interface device that provide the means of control and navigation within the operating system. Applications that run on the devices include (but are not limited to) touch-pads, such as those described in (but not limited to)—(1) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/722,948 (“Touch pad for handheld device”, filed Nov. 25, 2003); (2) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/188,182 (“Touch pad for handheld device”, filed Mar. 21, 2006); (3) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/210,610 (“Computer system with touchpad support in operating system”, filed Mar. 18, 1994); (4) U.S. Pat. No. 643,256 (“Movable touch pad with added functionality”, filed Ser. No. 10/643,256), touch screens such as those described in(but not limited to) (1) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/381,313, “Multipoint Touch Surface Controller,” filed on May 2, 2006; (2) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/840,862, “Multipoint Touchscreen,” filed on May 6, 2004; (3) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/903,964, “Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on Jul. 30, 2004; (4) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/048,264, “Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on Jan. 31, 2005; (5) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/038,590, “Mode-Based Graphical User Interfaces For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on Jan. 18, 2005; (6) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/228,758, “Virtual Input Device Placement On A Touch Screen User Interface,” filed on Sep. 16, 2005; (7) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/228,700, “Operation Of A Computer With A Touch Screen Interface,” filed on Sep. 16, 2005; (8) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/228,737, “Activating Virtual Keys Of A Touch-Screen Virtual Keyboard,” filed on Sep. 16, 2005 and (9) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/367,749, “Multi-Functional Hand-Held Device,” filed on Mar. 3, 2006, click wheels, such as those described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/549,619 “Method, device, and graphical user interface for dialing with a click wheel” filed on Oct. 13, 2006, keyboards, such as those mentioned in(but not limited to) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/711,760 (“Ergonomic keyboard input device”, filed on Jun. 6, 1991), mouse, such as those described in (but not limited to) (1) application Ser. No. 09/167,314 (“Computer mouse with enhance control button(s)”, filed on Oct. 6, 1998); (2) application Ser. No. 08/288,945 (“Roller mouse for implementing scrolling in windows applications”, filed on Aug. 10, 1994) and gesture recognition means, such as those described in(but not limited to) (1) European Patent application publication number: EP2482176 A2 (“Multi-input gesture control for a display screen”, filed on Nov. 4, 2011) and (2) U.S. Patent application with publication number 20120317511 A1 (“DISPLAY WITH BUILT IN 3D SENSING CAPABILITY AND GESTURE CONTROL OF TV”, filed on Aug. 21,2012).

[0028] Display means used by these devices may use LCD (liquid crystal display) technology, LED (light Emitting Diode) technology, CRT (Cathode ray tube) technology, or LPD (light emitting polymer) technology, or any other display technologies. Various realizations of graphics display circuitry that implement a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) are used to achieve video interface between user and these electronic devices.

[0029] Connectivity of these devices with networks, such as the internet, an intranet and/or wireless network, such as cellular telephone network, a wired or wireless local area network (LAN) and/or metropolitan area network (MAN) and/or WAN (wide area network) and other wireless communication is achieved by use of a plurality of communication standards, protocols and technologies like Bluetooth, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and/or any other suitable communication protocol, including communication protocols not yet developed as of the filing date of this document.

[0030] The present invention maybe implemented on applications that run on a single or variety of operating system platforms, including but not limited to OS X, WINDOWS, UNIX, IOS, ANDROID, SYMBIAN, LINUX, or embedded operating systems, such as VxWorks.

[0031] The present invention may also be implemented to work with various web browsers, including but not limited to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Opera, that access and handle various types of web pages constructed with various mark-up languages, such as HTML, HTML-5, XHTML, XML, etc. and the associated CSS (cascading style sheet) files and java-script files.

[0032] In a preferred embodiment of the invention the method to facilitate a user, interested in buying and selling of a real estate, with a catalogue of personals enlisted as real estate agents using a communication device interconnected over a social computing based environment is an application software or website. The said user is enabled to post at least one information item related to real estate over said social computing environment that can be viewed by another user associated with the environment.

[0033] As shown in FIG. 1, a buyer or seller sign up and add a profile which includes if they are buying or selling. Based on the options they choose they would then enter basic information.

[0034] As shown in FIG. 2, the user will have a few options under their profile settings page to choose what type of real estate services they will be looking for. For example the user looking to buy or sell a home will simply have a home buyer or home seller option in the settings or their profile. The buyers' options will allow the user to set up within their profile many buyer options. Their Price Ranges, Areas of interest. Via ZIP CODES & Town Names, Type of home (brick, stone, siding) the buyer can simply save all their settings in their user profile. These options are optional but will be suggested to the user fill out as much of their profile as possible so that the application can provide the best experience for the user.

[0035] As shown in FIG. 3, the user taps on GPS search via location or zip code. The User then can see the GPS location mapping of agents nearest to them that is logged into the app and ready. Then the user taps on an agent via by map or list of agents nearest to him. Then the buyer or seller can search for a local licensed real estate agent by pulling up the map. There the consumer will see the agents nearest to them and contact the agent via call now or simply messaging them. The invention is a computer implemented application that allows the home buyer or seller to connect to a licensed real estate agent live in real time via GPS location search or via Zip Code location search. It connects the home buyer or seller to a real estate agent in their mapping area instantly in real time via Call Button or Text Messaging. The user does this simple search in their area and can see all the agents that are ready now via the GPS mapping tool or a list of agents closest to them based on their GPS location to help with their real estate needs. The list option shows the agents closest first to their search criteria which can be set in the GPS search settings of distance from 5 miles to a 50 mile from their GPS location. The GPS mapping tool is the main staple of the application. This live map shows all of the real estate licensed professionals live using the application right on the map closest to the user. Or shows the user what agents are live and ready via a zip code or address search in that area of interest. This is a new way to connect home buyer and home sellers with a licensed real estate professional. This allows the buyers and sellers to stop blindly searching for homes on the market. This application the application will potentially connect not only realtors and their clients but also clients in need of mortgage loans, builders, remodeling, home inspectors and much more. The future of the real estate lead application is not limited.

[0036] FIG. 4 depicts the user then has an option to call live or message the agent. The agent and the user now are connected.

[0037] In a similar manner FIG. 5 depicts the users can save the agent information once connected. Agent has to approve the request. Agents will also be able to save potential clients the same way once the agent and client have approved.

[0038] Once a relationship is approved the user can talk freely with the agent via text or call button as shown in FIG. 6.

[0039] However, a user enlisted as an agent cannot freely contact users that are live and searching for agents. They will not see buyers or sellers on the map. An agent Yes Although the Agent Ready application will use current Text and Call methods, but the GPS search location technology to connect the user with the real estate agent in real time is new and not currently on the market.

[0040] Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that any arrangement, which is calculated to achieve the same purpose, may be substituted for the specific embodiment shown. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the present invention.

[0041] Although the invention has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.