Patent Document ID: 9599466
Application ID: 13757694
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method in a system for generating estimated wall area measurements derived at least in part from roof measurements, the system including a computer processor and a memory coupled to the computer processor, the method comprising: receiving, by the computer processor of the system for generating estimated wall area measurements, the roof measurements of a building having a roof; and deriving, by the computer processor of the system for generating estimated wall area measurements, the wall area measurements at least in part from the received roof area measurements, wherein the deriving the wall area measurements includes: receiving, by the computer processor of the system for generating estimated wall area measurements, a measurement indicative of a distance between at least one reference point on the roof and a ground surface on which the building rests via a placement of a graphical user interface element representing a horizontal planar model ground surface at a position beneath a graphical user interface element representing a digital three-dimensional model of the roof; generating, by the computer processor of the system for generating estimated wall area measurements, based at least in part on the received roof measurements and the received measurement indicative of the distance between the at least one reference point on the roof and the ground surface, an estimated wall area measurement of the building, wherein the generating the estimated wall area measurement based at least in part on the received roof measurements improves accuracy of wall area measurements; and outputting, by the computer processor of the system for generating estimated wall area measurements, a wall estimation report having the estimated wall area measurement of the building thereon and wherein the generated wall estimation report is provided for repair and/or constructing a structure of the building.