Patent ID: 8606747

Claim:
A system for retrieving and serving the regulatory history of a property, comprising: a plurality of remote computers having land use based regulatory history data associated therewith, and having data sources associated therewith; a further remote computer having a data source associated therewith that is different from the data sources associated with each of said plurality of remote computers; a communications network; and a local computer selectively coupled to said plurality of remote computers and said further remote computer via said communications network, said local computer being configured to crawl said plurality of remote computers over said communications network to build a local database, store, in the local database the data sources, retrieve a plurality of real property identifiers from said plurality of remote computers over said communications network based upon the data sources, each of the plurality of real property identifiers having land use based regulatory history data associated therewith, search the local database for a given real property based upon a given real property identifier associated therewith to determine which of said plurality of remote computers has land use based regulatory history data available for the given real property, determine whether the land use based regulatory history data available for the given real property is complete, retrieve land use based regulatory history data from said further remote computer over said communications network based upon at least one of the retrieved plurality of real property identifiers when the land use based regulatory history data available for the given real property is not complete, and display the land use based regulatory history data for the given real property on a display.