| US 7,516,086 B2 | ||
| Business rating placement heuristic | ||
| Lester K. Chu, Southlake, Tex. (US); Edwin Y. Harada, Irving, Tex. (US); and Douglas G. Heatherly, Coppell, Tex. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Idearc Media Corp., DFW Airport, Tex. (US) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 23, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/948,425. | ||
| Application 10/948425 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/801156, filed on Mar. 15, 2004. | ||
| Application 10/801156 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/800887, filed on Mar. 15, 2004. | ||
| Application 10/800887 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/800444, filed on Mar. 15, 2004. | ||
| Application 10/800444 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/680952, filed on Oct. 08, 2003, granted, now 7,050,990. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/505597, filed on Sep. 24, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0065811 A1, Mar. 24, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/60 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—14 [705/1; 705/26; 705/37; 707/2; 707/3] | 18 Claims |
| 1. An information distribution system, comprising:
a request subsystem, including a request, wherein said request subsystem receives said request, wherein said request includes
at least one rating selection and at least one of a geography selection and a category selection; and
a response subsystem, including a response, a placement heuristic that determines an order of listings and is based at least
in part on a fee amount and a rating, a plurality of listings, and a plurality of fee types;
wherein said response subsystem generates said response based upon said request and said placement heuristic;
the response subsystem including at least one priority metric that is influenced by a relevance metric that takes into consideration
an estimated relevance of a particular listing to the request;
wherein said placement heuristic receives said priority metric as an input and the order of listings further based at least
in part on a user profile that ranks a relative importance of the rating selection and at least one of the geography selection
and the category selection;
wherein said response includes two or more listings from said plurality of listings, each listing being associated with at
least one fee type in said plurality of fee types; and
further wherein the rating is assigned to a ratings tier according to a source of the rating.
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