Collecting and representing home attributes

US11315202B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Zillow, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Timothy VanderMey · Orlando, US
• Fred Sadaghiani · San Francisco, US
• Stephen Martin McNamee · Renton, US
• Marcin Szuster · Seattle, US
• Chloe Linden Harford · Seattle, US
• Jeffrey Brinker · Westfield, US
• Randy Winston Puttick · Mercer Island, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 26, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0635
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A facility for representing home attribute values for a plurality of homes and a plurality of home attributes is described. The facility incorporates a data structure comprising, for each of the plurality of homes, for each of the plurality of attribute value sources, the capacity to store values for any of the plurality of home attributes obtained from the attribute value source.