发明名称 Systems and methods to facilitate search of business entities
摘要 Systems and methods are provided to facilitate search of listings of businesses according to opening date or age of the businesses at their current business locations. For example, a user may submit a search request for listings of new businesses (e.g., the businesses having the “Grand Opening” status) at a location specified by the user.
申请公布号 US9177068(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.11.03
申请号 US200812186482 申请日期 2008.08.05
申请人 发明人 Lam Man Tat;Lieske, Jr. Jay H.
分类号 G06F17/30;G06F15/02;G06Q30/02;G06Q10/06;G06F11/07;G06Q30/00 主分类号 G06F17/30
代理机构 Alston & Bird LLP 代理人 Alston & Bird LLP
主权项 1. A method comprising: processing first data and second data received via a communication network by one or more interfaces facilitated by a server system, the first data indicative of a first age of a first business, and the second data indicative of a second age of a second business; storing, by the server system in a data storage facility of the server system, listings of a plurality of businesses, including data indicative of ages of the businesses, wherein the data comprises the first data indicative of the first age of the first business and the second data indicative of the second age of the second business; at a first time, generating by the server system a first indication of a first level of past operations of the first business at least in part by: comparing, by the server system, the first data indicative of the first age of the first business to a first threshold corresponding to a first time period of past operations;determining, by the server system, whether the first data indicative of the first age of the first business satisfies the first threshold; andassigning, by the server system, a first status to a first listing corresponding to the first business based at least in part the determining whether the first data satisfies the first threshold and storing a first status indicator in association with the first listing in the data storage facility; at a second time, generating by the server system a second indication of a second level of past operations of the second business at least in part by: comparing, by the server system, the second data indicative of the second age of the second business to a second threshold corresponding to a second time period of past operations;determining, by the server system, whether the second data indicative of the second age of the second business satisfies the second threshold; andassigning, by the server system, a second status to a second listing corresponding to the second business and storing a second status indicator in association with the second listing in the data storage facility based at least in part the determining whether the second data satisfies the second threshold, wherein the second status is different from the first status; processing a transmission received via the communication network by the server system to facilitate an interface to a search engine of the server system, the transmission corresponding to a search request, the interface for the search request including an input field to receive a search term and a user interface element selectable to indicate a level of past operations, wherein the search term further includes a location of interest specified in the interface; responsive to the search request: identifying, via the search engine, a subset of the listings based at least in part on i) the indicated level of past operations, ii) the data indicative of the ages of the businesses, and iii) a geographic area identified based on the location of interest, and retrieving the subset of the listings from the data storage facility, wherein the identifying comprises: assigning the second status to the first listing corresponding to the first business based at least in part on a difference between the first time and the third time; selecting the first listing and the second listing to form the subset of the listings based at least in part on the second status assigned to the first listing and the second listing; and sorting the subset of the listings based at least in part on statuses assigned to each listing of the subset of the listing, the statuses based at least in part on the data indicative of the ages of the businesses and comprising the second status; and transmitting by the server system the subset of the listings via the communication network to an end-user device to facilitate, via the interface, the subset of the listings in the sorted order, wherein the listings of the subset of the listings indicate respective opening dates of respective businesses at respective locations.
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