System for facilitating home construction and sales
First Claim
1. A system for displaying plat status information to a viewer, comprising:
- displaying, on a video display terminal, a plurality of polygons, each polygon representing a respectively associated plat, selecting a status in association with each plat, coding each of said polygons with a visible indicia indicative of the status assigned to each of said polygons respectively associated plat.
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Abstract
A system for facilitating the information transfer and processing associated with home construction and home sales. Various discrete software modules are disclosed each handling a specific task associated with home construction and sales. Also, a system for communicating between separate data bases is disclosed wherein separate and distinct sales offices, each having their own data base, may communicate with a parent, market office having its own data base wherein the data bases of the sales offices and the market office are synchronized according to the method of the present invention so that any data updates in any of the sales offices would be automatically updated in the associated market offices. This aspect of the present invention allows a corporation responsible for home construction and sales amongst various regional, market, and sales offices to coordinate a plurality of discretely separate data bases in a way such that they are all synchronized with one another at a predetermined time.
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8 Claims
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1. A system for displaying plat status information to a viewer, comprising:
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displaying, on a video display terminal, a plurality of polygons, each polygon representing a respectively associated plat, selecting a status in association with each plat, coding each of said polygons with a visible indicia indicative of the status assigned to each of said polygons respectively associated plat. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A system for displaying plat status information, comprising:
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computer means including a video display terminal for displaying on said video display terminal a plurality of polygons, each polygon representing a respectively associated plat, means for coding each of said polygons with a visible indicia indicative of a status assigned to each of said polygon'"'"'s respectively associated plat.
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5. A method of communicating between first and second geographically remote data bases, comprising the steps of:
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(A) receiving information relating to the construction or sale of homes into said first data base, (B) separating said information into a plurality of first data base records, (C) determining which of said plurality of first data base records have been altered from a previous state, (D) sending said altered records of said first data base to said second data base, (E) matching each altered data base record sent from said first data base with a respectively associated record of said second data base, and (F) amending each matched record of said second data base to reflect the information present in the respectively associated altered record sent from said first data base. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. A system for facilitating tracking information associated with selling and constructing homes, comprising:
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computer means, means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying plat information relating to said homes, means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying information related to the design of said homes, means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying information related to options associated with said homes, means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying mortgage information relating to the purchase of said homes, means, coupled with said computer means, for displaying information related to a contract associated with the sale of said homes.
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