Systems and methods for searching for and translating real estate descriptions from diverse sources utilizing an operator-based product definition

摘要

Disclosed herein are: systems capable of searching, receiving and conglomerating the data from real estate databases of varying formats, and translating that received into a common format; execution of pre-defined translation rules referencing data tags used within the system or the originating databases; rules constructed in a simple, hierarchical or a class-based structure whereby one rule depends upon the output of another rule for its input; data sources prioritized or merged where the same property-related information is presented in more than one source; map definitions containing rule sets crafted for a particular use, such as for a particular consumer or user; such systems used in the course of real estate appraisals, in property search reports, extending across databases of differing formats. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.

主权项

1. A system for searching and conglomerating data from sources of real estate information utilizing different formats for real estate description data, the system comprising:
a connection device for electronic communication over a network; a processing device; storage comprising at least one storage device; instructions stored in the storage which, when executed by the processing device, cause the system to: receive operator-based search criteria from an operator for producing a report, wherein the operator-based search criteria comprises a class and locality of properties; determine a plurality of sources of real estate information from which real estate property descriptions are to be obtained; for each of the plurality of sources of real estate information, determine source specific search criteria, wherein determining the source specific search criteria comprises translating the operator-based search criteria to match a format or capabilities for at least one of the plurality of sources of real estate information; provide the source specific search criteria to each of the plurality of sources of real estate information; receive from the plurality of sources of real estate information a result of searches performed using the source specific search criteria for the plurality of sources, wherein the result of the searches comprise a set of real estate information including descriptions of a number of real estate properties, each description including a number of characteristics of a property; translate the set of real estate information for each of the plurality of sources of real estate information into a common format in accordance with translational rules, wherein the translational rules are selected based on a consumer; and generate a report for the consumer based on the translated set of real estate information for the plurality of sources.