Patent ID: 8055578
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for depicting geographic and demographic information relating to mortgage lending activities, the system comprising: a database that stores information including demographic, economic, and mortgage lending information used in mortgage lending activities from a plurality of public and private sources; a user interface, which is configured to receive from a user identifications of geographical regions, present to the user information in the database for identified geographical regions, receive from the user selections from a list of options that are used to filter the information from the database for the identified geographical regions, and present visual representations corresponding to the received information; a mapping application, in operative communication with the database and the user interface, which uses the information in the database and information entered by the user to generate the visual representations, wherein the visual representations include depictions of demographic, economic and mortgage lending information relating to a mortgage lending activity, wherein the mapping application receives the information received from the user from the list of options to filter the information retrieved from the database, and wherein the mapping application customizes the generated depictions of demographic, economic and mortgage lending information for selected geographic regions for use by a mortgage market participant in understanding mortgage lending activity for a geographic area that comprises the selected geographic regions.