Business rating placement heuristic
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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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Abstract
A system and method for distributing information (collectively the “system”) is disclosed. The system includes category-based, geography-based, and ratings-based attributes to better “focus” the information distributed by the system. In the processing of listing-based attributes (e.g. attributes limited to a particular listing), the system can also be influenced by relationship-based attributes (e.g. attributes between the administrator of the system and the advertisers, and even potentially users).
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1. An information distribution system, comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer-readable medium tangibly embodying a set of computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:
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receiving a request, wherein said request includes at least one rating selection and at least one of a geography selection and a category selection; generating a response based upon said request and a placement heuristic;
wherein said response includes two or more listings from a plurality of listings, each listing being associated with at least one fee type in a plurality of fee types;assigning a rating to a ratings tier according to a source of the rating; and determining an order of listings based at least in part on a fee amount and a rating associated with each of the listings. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method, comprising:
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receiving a request in a computing device having a processer and a memory, wherein said request includes at least one rating selection and at least one of a geography selection and a category selection; generating a response based upon said request and a placement heuristic;
wherein said response includes two or more listings from a plurality of listings, each listing being associated with at least one fee type in a plurality of fee types;assigning a rating to a ratings tier according to a source of the rating; and determining an order of listings based at least in part on a fee amount and a rating associated with each of the listings. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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