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System for facilitating home construction and sales
Assignee: HALL DATA SYNC TECHNOLOGIES LLC
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Filing: 1995-02-13
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Granted: 1997-11-18
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Expires: 2015-02-13
Abstract
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.
Inventors
- 👤 Timothy A. Fino
- 👤 Stephan E. Hall
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 19:59
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q30/00; G06Q30/06; G06Q30/02; G06Q30/0601; G06Q50/00; G06Q50/10; G06Q50/16; G06Q50/163; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99941; Y10S707/99944; Y10S707/99945; Y10S707/99951; Y10S707/99952; Y10S707/99953
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
139 words
A method of communicating between first and second geographically remote data bases, comprising the steps of: (A) receiving information relating to the construction and 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 sent from said first data base with a respectively associated record 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.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
139 words
A method of communicating between first and second geographically remote data bases, comprising the steps of: (A) receiving information relating to the construction and 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 sent from said first data base with a respectively associated record 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.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
89 words
The method of claim 1, further including the steps of: (G) altering information in select data base records of said second data base, (H) sending said altered records of said second data base to said first data base, (I) matching each altered data base record sent from said second data base with a respectively associated record of said first data base, and (J) amending each matched record of said first data base to reflect the information present in the respectively associated altered record sent from said second data base.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
48 words
The method of claim 1, wherein step (C) includes the substep of logging the time in which the most recent altered records were sent to said second data base and determining which of the data base records have been altered after the most recent altered records were sent.
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