Patent ID: 7516103

Claim:
An automated method for facilitating a user's selection of residential or business products or services provided to a property having a geographic location, the method comprising the steps of: (a) maintaining a database comprising product or service offerings in a plurality of offering categories, wherein each of said product and of service offerings is classified in said database in one or more geographic markets, and wherein each of said markets associated with each said product or service offering are defined independently or with different levels of detail in said database: (i) in variable geographic detail, and (ii) as specifically as a street address or a subdivision of a street address, (b) presenting a user with a plurality of said offering categories, wherein each of said offering categories corresponds to a product or service type; (c) receiving from said user: (i) said geographic location of said property wherein said geographic location may be identified as specifically as a street address or a subdivision of a street address; and (ii) user's selection of one or more offering categories; (d) determining product or service offerings maintained in said database that: (i) correspond to said offering categories selected by said user, and (ii) are associated with markets that correspond to said geographic location provided by said user; (e) generating for each offering category selected by said user, a summary of each said product or service offering associated with markets that correspond to said geographic location provided by said user; and (f) transmitting to said user said summary of offerings.