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Business rating placement heuristic

  • US 8,224,704 B2
  • Filed: 02/13/2009
  • Issued: 07/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information distribution system, comprising:

  • a first computer-readable medium portion storing computer-executable instructions for 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 second computer-readable medium portion storing computer-executable instructions for 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;

    wherein said response includes two or more listings from said plurality of listings, each listing being associated with at least one said 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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