Zillow, Inc.

Randy Winston Puttick

Hauke Antony Gentzkow

Marcin D Szuster

Chloe Linden Harford

Fred Farhad Sadaghiani

William Mountain Lewis

Jeffrey Thomas Brinker

Timothy VanderMey

Steven F Stein

Stephen Martin McNamee

John K Burroughs

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.

Collecting and representing home attributes

A facility for representing a set of items each potentially having a value for each of a group of attributes is described. The items are represented in a database made up of two or more discrete components. Each component corresponds to a proper subset of group of attributes, and represents for every item of the set the values of its proper subset of attributes. Every component is organized such that data items are represented within it in the same order.

Multi-faceted search

A facility for summarizing a set of data points each having a geographic location is described. The facility specifies the display of a map showing a geographic area the specified by a user. The facility identifies a number of geographic regions in the geographic area that are of a type that is automatically selected by the facility in response to the identity of the geographic area. The map indicates, for a least one of the identified geographic regions, information that summarizes one or more aspects of the data points of the set that have geographic locations contained in the identified geographic region.

Automatically performing varying levels of summarization of geographic data points in response to a user's selection of zoom level

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Mercer Island, WA, United States of America

Randy Winston Puttick