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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2009
Ved Ranjan Sinha, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sunny Sunmin Song, Los Altos, CA (US);
Harish Bal Kotbagi, Foster City, CA (US);
Ved Ranjan Sinha, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sunny SunMin Song, Los Altos, CA (US);
Harish Bal Kotbagi, Foster City, CA (US);
Elance, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In a services exchange medium, buyers are able to search and hire service providers to get projects done quickly and cost effectively. A buyer-provider matching algorithm uses two scores to calculate a 'Provider Search' score for each service provider: a 'Reputation' score and a “Provider Match” score. In some embodiments, the “Reputation” score is a quantitative metric score of a service provider's overall reputation within the services exchange medium. In other embodiments, the “Reputation” score is configured to enhance the “Provider Match” score. Since reputation is an important attribute when searching for a qualified service provider, the “Provider Search” score takes into consideration the “Reputation” score. A provider results list generated from a provider search is sorted by the “Provider Search” score. As such, the provider results list is sorted in a significant manner useful to the buyer searching for the qualified service provider.