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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:
Jan. 01, 2013

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2010
Applicants:

Kristina Gibson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ben Ross, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher W. Phillips, Berkeley, CA (US);

Tonya Rado, San Francisco, CA (US);

Manish R. Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kristina Gibson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ben Ross, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher W. Phillips, Berkeley, CA (US);

Tonya Rado, San Francisco, CA (US);

Manish R. Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for creating a web listing using a mobile phone whereby a user, typically a business owner or a representative of the business, provides information/data associated with the business to a mobile application including an on-line directory service using a merchant mobile phone, or other mobile computing system, associated with the user and/or the business and/or a mobile application, and/or an SMS and/or another mobile communications network. The information associated with the business provided via the merchant mobile phone, or other mobile computing system, is then used by the on-line directory service to create an on-line presence for the business such as, but not limited to, an on-line web-listing for the business in the on-line directory that includes at least part of the information associated with the business provided via the merchant mobile phone, or other mobile computing system.


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