| YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC Patent applications |
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| 20100069123 | Systems and Methods for Voice Based Search - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate voice-based search of information. For example, a portable device may be in a first orientation to present a display of a graphical user interface, such as a search interface presented within a web browser of the portable device. When the portable device is in a second orientation different from the first orientation, the portable device records a voice input for the graphical user interface. When the portable device is back to the first orientation, the portable device applies the voice input to the graphical user interface. When the user shakes the portable device, the portable device re-initializes the graphical user interface for a subsequent input. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100063879 | Systems and Methods to Selectively Provide Information Based on User Interest - Systems and methods are provided to advertise based on the postings of a user. For example, after receiving a posting from a first user, a web site may present the posting to a plurality of second users. A content analyzer identifies at least one topic based at least in part on the posting to select an advertisement. An electronic messaging system then delivers the advertisement to the first user and/or the second users. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100050245 | Systems and Methods to Provide Information and Services to Authorized Users - Systems and methods are provided to authorize users to anonymously access resources of different web sites. For example, a business listing service may authenticate users and allow the authenticated users to access the resources of the businesses listed via the business listing service, without the users having to create separate accounts with the businesses and without having to reveal the identities of the users to the businesses. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100036807 | Systems and Methods to Sort Information Related to Entities Having Different Locations - Systems and methods sort location dependent information based on selecting multiple groups of information according to location, ordering the groups based on location, and ordering the information within the groups based on at least one or more other criteria. The size(s) of the areas used to select the groups may be predetermined, or dynamically determined (e.g., based on clustering of information along distance to a location of interest). | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036806 | Systems and Methods to Facilitate Search of Business Entities - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate search of listings of businesses according to opening date or age of the businesses at their current business locations. For example, a user may submit a search request for listings of new businesses (e.g., the businesses having the “Grand Opening” status) at a location specified by the user. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20090307268 | Systems and Methods to Plan Events at Different Locations - Systems and methods are provided to specify a location of a planned event via a selection of a listing that has location information. For example, in response to a search request a listing may show a business entity at a geographic location; and the user may select the listing as a way to specify the location of a new event or an existing event. In some embodiments, one event can have multiple listings specifying multiple locations. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090288169 | Systems and Methods to Control Web Scraping - Systems and methods to control web scraping through a plurality of web servers using real time access statistics are described. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090282433 | Systems and Methods to Connect People via Videos for Real Time Communications - Systems and methods to connect people for real time communications via distribution of video clips are described. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090281988 | Systems and Methods to Provide Search Based on Social Graphs and Affinity Groups - Methods, machine-readable media, apparatuses and systems are provided to identify and/or present information based on relationship-based recommendations. The information may be search results; and the relationship-based recommendations may be recommendations or preferences specified by related people in one or more social networks or affinity groups. For example, the search results can be presented in an order based at least in part on the recommendations and the relationship between the people who made the recommendations and the person who requested the search results. | 11-12-2009 |
