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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Homeaway.com, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Ronald William Corbett, Austin, TX (US);

Bryon Kristen Jacob, Austin, TX (US);

David Petty, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

HomeAway.com, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/215 (2019.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06Q 50/16 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/163 (2013.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01); G06F 16/24556 (2019.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0645 (2013.01);
Abstract

A datastore that includes property listings (e.g., for rental properties) may be accessed by a computing resource configured to execute a thumb printing algorithm to generate summary data values (e.g., thumbprint values, hash values) of digital data included one or more images of a property listing. The summary data values along with listing attributes (e.g., address, zip code, geolocation, brand, number of bedrooms/bathrooms/sleeps, amenities) of the property listing may be compared with summary data values and listing attributes of other property listings to determine if the summary data values of one or more images match and if one or more listing attributes match. A threshold number of image matches and listing attribute matches may indicate that the property listings are duplicate property listings, which may be merged, removed or replaced with links/pointers by the computer resource to increase data storage space and/or reduce data search latency times of the datastore.


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