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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2008
Applicants:

Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Prabhakar Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Raghu Ramakrishnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Prabhakar Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Raghu Ramakrishnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a process for receiving, evaluating and selecting of content modules such as content summary boxes and landing pages for display on network-accessible search engine results page. In one particular example, potential content providers may be provided with incentives and guidelines for the preparation of content summary boxes and landing pages over an electronic communications network, and the resulting submissions can be ranked and published in conjunction with the display of a search engine results page over the network.


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