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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2006
Adam Hyder, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joseph Ting, San Jose, CA (US);
Adam Hyder, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joseph Ting, San Jose, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system of data acquisition by a listing service provider is disclosed. A network address is received from a client computer that is operated by a lister. The network address can be indicative of a location of listing data on a computer network. The listing data comprises at least one information item provided by the lister. The network address received from the lister is accessed by opening a computer network connection to retrieve the listing data. The lister makes available the listing data for retrieval so that the listing data can be posted in a search bank hosted by the listing service provider. The listing data is retrieved from the network address using the computer network connection by copying the listing data onto a listing data database.