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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul G. Manca, Oakland, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jennifer R Zagofsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul G. Manca, Oakland, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jennifer R Zagofsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC, D/FW Airport, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems to specify complex geographic areas for advertisements to connect advertisers and customers for real time communications. One embodiment includes: a web server to present a user interface to receive input specifying a plurality of geographic areas and one or more operations to combine the plurality of geographic areas into a geographic area of service of an advertisement and to provide the advertisement with a reference of a connection server for presentation to a customer when a location of the customer matches with the geographic area of service of the advertisement; and a connection server to receive a request from the customer for a connection to an advertiser of the advertisement and to provide the connection for real time communications between the customer and the advertiser in response to the request made via the reference of the connection server.