System for generating a phonebook directory and phone number evaluation
OwnerWilliam Quimbyinventor
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for phone number evaluation, e.g., assigning a value to a telephone number may include identifying, by at least one processor, at least one of a word, trademark, a company name, and a domain name that is associated with a telephone number; calculating, by the at least one processor, a value score for the phone based on at least one of the word, trademark, company name, and domain name; receiving a search query including the telephone number; and providing, by the at least one processor, a search result to the search query based on the value score.
Claims12
A computer system comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored therein that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform the following method:
- retrieving one or more telephone numbers;
- determining website domains that are associated with the one or more telephone numbers;
- and
- determining categories to which a telephone number is to be assigned based on a function corresponding to popularity in searches and the number of other telephone numbers associated with the same domains associated with the one or more telephone numbers, the function resulting in assigning the domains a vote number, wherein when the vote number is within a predetermined value range, the domain is assigned a particular category for the one or more telephone numbers, the categories including a spam category, a directory category, and a content category, wherein domains within the spam category have a relatively low vote number as compared to domains within the directory category and domains within the content category have a relatively higher vote number than domains within the directory category.
A method of assigning a value to a phone number, comprising:
- identifying, by at least one processor, information associated with a telephone number, the information including at least one of word elements contained within the telephone number, numeric elements contained within the telephone number, and outside data associated with the telephone number;
- calculating, by the at least one processor, a value score for the phone number based on the information;
- receiving a search query including the telephone number;
- and
- providing, by the at least one processor, a search result to the search query based on the value score.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.