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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2009
Applicants:
Adam Doppelt, Seattle, WA (US);
Ethan Lowry, Seattle, WA (US);
Patrick O'donnell, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
CitySearch, LLC, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of providing an answer, comprising receiving a criteria, identifying a subset of a set of answers in a data store based on the criteria, calculating a random value for each of the answers in the subset, ranking the subset of answers based on the random values, selecting one of the answers of the subset based on the ranking; and providing an output including the selected answer.