SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZING AND CLASSIFYING BUSINESSES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

• US 20130173626A1
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Virdy, Ajaipal Singh
• Granted Patent: US 8,949,256 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2228 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/31 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/355 Class or cluster creation or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method comprising:

retrieving, using at least one processor, an electronic document;

parsing the electronic document to identify a first portion of the electronic document and a second portion of the electronic document;

analyzing the first portion to identify a first potential entity name from the first portion;

analyzing the second portion to identify a second potential entity name from the second portion; and

comparing the first potential entity name to the second potential entity name to determine whether the first potential entity name and the second potential entity name represent a name of an owner of the electronic document.