Flexible real estate search

Abstract

A facility for adjusting a display of a result of searching a property database is described. The facility, after displaying a list of properties satisfying a search filter, allows a user to specify property attributes the values of which are not currently shown for the properties, and redisplays the list of properties by additionally showing the values of those property attributes for the properties.

I/We claim: 
     
         1 . A computing system comprising:
 one or more processors; and   one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform a process comprising:
 causing, by the computing system, display a first version of a table showing first results of searching a real estate database, wherein each row of the first version of the table:
 corresponds to a real estate property, and 
 displays one or more attributes of that real estate property; 
 
 receiving a selection of one or more additional attributes which are not in the displayed one or more attributes in the first version of the table; and 
 causing, by the computing system, display of a second version of the table showing the first results of searching the real estate database, wherein the second version of the table displays additional columns corresponding to the one or more additional attributes. 
   
     
     
         2 . The computing system of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the first results of searching the real estate database are obtained by searching the real estate database using a search filter specifying set of real estate attributes, and   wherein each column of the first version of the table corresponds to one of the real estate attributes of the set of real estate attributes.   
     
     
         3 . The computing system of  claim 1 , wherein displaying the second version of the table includes refreshing the displayed first version of the table to include the additional columns corresponding to the one or more additional attributes. 
     
     
         4 . The computing system of  claim 1 , wherein displaying the first version of the table is in a first user interface and wherein displaying the second version of the table is in a second user interface different from the first user interface. 
     
     
         5 . The computing system of  claim 1 , wherein the process further comprises:
 receiving user input selecting a column of the second version of the table; and   sorting the second version of the table based on the selected column.   
     
     
         6 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a process comprising:
 causing, by the computing system, display of a first version of a table showing first results of searching a real estate database, wherein each row of the first version of the table:
 corresponds to a real estate property, and 
 displays one or more attributes of that real estate property; 
   receiving a selection of one or more additional attributes which are not in the displayed one or more attributes in the first version of the table; and   causing, by the computing system, display of a second version of the table showing two or more of the first results of searching the real estate database, wherein the second version of the table displays additional columns corresponding to the one or more additional attributes.   
     
     
         7 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 6 ,
 wherein receiving the selection of one or more additional attributes includes receiving a deselection of at least one attribute, of the one or more attributes of the real estate properties displayed in the first version of the table, and   wherein the display of the second version of the table excludes at least one column, included in first version of the table, corresponding to the deselected at least one attribute.   
     
     
         8 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 6 ,
 wherein receiving the selection of one or more additional attributes includes receiving a modification to search criteria used to obtain the first results of searching the real estate database;   wherein the process further comprises searching the real estate database using the modified search criteria to obtain second search results, the second search results:
 including the two or more of the first results, 
 including at least one result not in the first results, and 
 excluding at least one result included in the first results; and 
   wherein the second version of the table shows the second search results.   
     
     
         9 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 6 , wherein the display of the first version of the table and the display of the second version of the table are performed in one or more webpages. 
     
     
         10 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 6 ,
 wherein the one or more attributes of that real estate property are displayed in columns of the first version of the table; and   wherein columns of the first version of the table are a predetermined number of properties that satisfy search criteria used in the searching of the real estate database.   
     
     
         11 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 6 , wherein the process further comprises:
 receiving an indication to swap one or more columns included in the second version of the table to be rows in a third version of the table; and   in response to receiving the indication, causing display of the third version of the table, wherein the third version of the table swaps one or more columns from the second version of the table to be rows in the third version of the table.   
     
     
         12 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 6 , wherein the process further comprises:
 receiving an indication to convert the second version of the table to a list; and   in response to receiving the indication, causing display of a list showing the two or more of the first results.   
     
     
         13 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 6 ,
 wherein the first results of searching the real estate database are obtained by searching the real estate database using a search filter specifying set of real estate attributes; and   wherein each column of the first version of the table corresponds to one of the real estate attributes of the set of real estate attributes.   
     
     
         14 . A method, in a computing system, for displaying electronic records of real estate properties identified as satisfying search criteria, the method comprising:
 displaying a first version of a table with results of searching a real estate property database;   receiving a selection of additional property attributes; and   in response to receiving the selection of additional property attributes, adjusting the display of the first version of the table to show a second version of the table,
 wherein the second version of the table shows the results from the first version of the table a) with two or more of the rows from the first version of the table and b) with additional columns corresponding to the selected additional property attributes. 
   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising:
 receiving a deselection of at least one property attribute, and 
 wherein the second version of the table excludes at least one column, included in first version of the table, corresponding to the deselected at least one attribute. 
 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising:
 receiving a modification to search criteria used to obtain the results of searching the real estate property database; and 
 searching the real estate property database using the modified search criteria to obtain second search results, the second search results including:
 records corresponding to the two or more of the rows from the first version of the table, and 
 at least one record not in the results shown in the first version of the table; 
 
 wherein the second version of the table shows the second search results. 
 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 14 ,
 wherein the first version of the table shows one or more attributes of real estate properties in columns; and   wherein the columns of the first version of the table are a predetermined number of real estate properties that satisfy search criteria used in the searching of the real estate property database.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the process further comprises:
 receiving an indication to swap one or more columns included in the second version of the table to be rows in a third version of the table; and   in response to receiving the indication, causing display of the third version of the table, wherein the third version of the table swaps one or more columns from the second version of the table to be rows in the third version of the table.   
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising:
 receiving an indication to convert the second version of the table to a list; and 
 in response to receiving the indication, causing displayed of a list showing results corresponding to the two or more of the rows from the first version of the table. 
 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 14 ,
 wherein the first results of searching the real estate property database are obtained by searching the real estate property database using a search filter specifying set of real estate attributes, and   wherein each column of the first version of the table corresponds to one of the real estate attributes of the set of real estate attributes.