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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. 16, 2014

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2007
Applicants:

Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);

Paul G. Manca, Oakland, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sean Van der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);

Paul G. Manca, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

YP Interactive LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04M 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); H04M 7/003 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01); H04M 7/006 (2013.01); H04M 3/42195 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); H04M 2203/5054 (2013.01); H04M 3/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses to facilitate searches for information to request for real time communication connections. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a request, via a communication reference embedded in a web page and storing data to associate the communication reference with the web page based on the request. The communication reference is assigned to represent contact information of a callee. In one embodiment, a search is performed using the stored data that associates the communication reference with the web page; and web pages in the search result are ranked based at least in part upon the usage of the communication reference embedded in the corresponding web page.


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