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Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jin Xu, Fremont, CA (US);

Priscilla Amirtharaj, Cupertino, IL (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON MEDIA INC., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06393 (2013.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0256 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present teaching relates to managing computing resources. In one example, a search query is received from a user. A plurality of performance scores associated with a plurality of providers is obtained from a provider score database. One of the plurality of providers is selected based on the plurality of performance scores. The search query is transmitted to be performed by the selected one of the plurality of providers. One or more search results are received in response to the search query from the selected one of the plurality of providers. The one or more search results are presented to the user to be displayed on a user device.


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