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US 2007/0192168 A1Published application
Map and Inventory-Based On-Line Purchases
AssigneeLeviathan Entertainment, LLC
InventorAndrew Stephen Van Luchene
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Abstract
Systems and methods for survey based qualification of keyword searches and survey based qualification of keyword advertising. A searcher provides a search query to a search engine and is presented with at least one query-specific survey question. The searcher's original query and/or response to the query-specific survey question(s) are then used to generate a list of advertisers whose in-stock inventory matches user-specified criteria. The list may be provided in the form of an interactive map.
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A method comprising:
- providing a survey questionnaire to a user;
- receiving answers to the survey questionnaire from the user including a set of criteria for a desired purchasable item;
- identifying, from a set of vendors, one or more vendors whose in-stock inventory satisfies the criteria;
- and
- outputting information regarding the one or more vendors to the user.
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A system comprising:
- a vendor database providing a list of vendors offering purchasable items;
- an inventory database for each vendor in the vendor database;
- a survey questionnaire module configured to provide one or more survey questions to a user;
- a criteria module configured to identify user-specified criteria based on answers provided by the user to the survey questionnaire;
- an inventory pinging module configured to search the inventory databases and identify vendors that have inventory that satisfies the user-specified criteria;
- an advertisement display module configured to provide information regarding the identified vendors to the user.
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A method comprising:
- receiving answers to a survey from a user, wherein the answers specify a date and location for a desired hotel room;
- identifying hotels in the specified location;
- determining which of hotels in the specified location have a room available for the specified date;
- generating a map identifying the location of the hotels that have a room available for the specified date;
- outputting the map to the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.