US Patent Issued to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems on Feb. 1 for "Method and System for Platinum Database" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 7,881,948, issued on Feb. 1, was assigned to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"Method and System for Platinum Database" was invented by Rick Carr (Manassas, Va.), Elizabeth Davis (Rockville, Md.), Michael Delgaudio (Davidsonville, Md.), Patrick Halladay (Rockville, Md.), Heather McAvey (Bethesda, Md.), Elizabeth Moon (Gaithersburg, Md.), Margaret O'Sullivan (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Gregg Petch (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing real estate information to users, tailored to requirements and fields relating to the location of the property. A single repository, such as a database or database farm, is used with middle tier software on servers on a network, such as the Internet, to provide information to users via user terminals coupled to the network, for particular properties, and to receive information for properties for addition to the database. Information and fields specific to locations are input to the system via a system operator. User terminals utilize either downloaded software to interact with the middle tier, or a network browser. In one variation, the middle tier software is based upon an open standard, such as an open Application Program Interface standard, so as to allow access for a variety of terminal types and software."

The patent was filed on Jan. 22, 2008, under Application No. 12/017,787.

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