Patent ID: 8443305
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus that facilitates chart analysis with respect to a land survey and a corresponding legal description of boundaries depicted in the land survey, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory that comprises a plurality of components that are executable by the at least one processor, the components comprising: a receiver component that is operable to receive computer-readable data, wherein the computer-readable data comprises first data that is representative of a land survey of a particular type, wherein the land survey is a land survey of at least one parcel of land, wherein the computer-readable data further comprises second data that is representative of text of a legal description of the at least one parcel of land, wherein the computer-readable data further comprises third data that is representative of at least one encroachment of at least one item over a boundary line of the at least one parcel of land; a display component that is operable to process one or more of the first data or the second data to cause one or more of the land survey or the legal description to be graphically displayed on a display screen of a computing device to a user; an interface component that is operable to recognize a selection of a portion of one of the land survey or the legal description by the user, wherein the display component is operable to graphically alter content depicted on the display screen to illustrate a correlation between the portion selected by the user and a corresponding portion of the unselected land survey or the legal description responsive to the interface component recognizing the selection of the portion of the land survey or the legal description; wherein the at least one processor is operative responsive at least in part to the first data and the second data to cause the display component to output a first visible representation of the land survey and a second visible representation of the text of the legal description, wherein the second visible representation includes a plurality of visually distinct portions of the text of the legal description, wherein the plurality of visually distinct portions of the text of the legal description includes respective textual descriptions of different boundary lines displayed in the first visible representation; wherein the interface component is operative to receive a selection of one of the visually distinct portions of the text of the legal description, which selected visually distinct portion is one of the textual descriptions of one of the boundary lines; wherein the at least one processor is operative responsive at least in part to the selection to cause the display component to output an altered visible representation of the land survey in which a portion of the land survey that corresponds to the selected portion of the text of the legal description is relatively more visually distinctively highlighted compared to the visible representation of the corresponding portion of the land survey prior to being altered, so as to visually illustrate a correlation between the selected portion of the text of the legal description and the corresponding portion of the land survey, wherein the portion of the land survey that is relatively more visually distinctively highlighted in the altered visible representation of the land survey is a graphical depiction of the one boundary line that corresponds to the selection; wherein the interface component is operative to receive a selection pertaining to the at least one encroachment, wherein the at least one processor is operative responsive at least in part to the selection pertaining to the at least one encroachment to cause the display component to output an altered visible representation of the land survey in which the at least one encroachment is relatively more visually distinctively highlighted compared to the visible representation of the corresponding portion of the land survey prior to being altered.