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US 7,809,610 B2Granted
Methods and apparatus for freshness and completeness of information
AssigneePlatformation, Inc.
InventorYu Cao
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Abstract
A system that facilitates publishing and consuming information that is of time sensitivity, for example, price information. Methods are employed to achieve completeness and freshness in information for a given domain. A preferred embodiment is a shopping site that is capable of comparing prices, purchasing bundled products and dealing with coupons.
Claims19
A system for publishing time-sensitive data, comprising:
- a publication site server comprising a first computer readable memory encoded with a first program that configures the publication site server configured to store and to publish a first time-sensitive data from a first data provider and a second time-sensitive data from a second data provider;
- a purchasing server communicatively coupled to the publication site server, and comprising a second computer readable memory encoded with a second program that configures the purchasing server configured to accept a fee from the first provider in exchange for publishing the first time-sensitive data ahead of publishing the second time-sensitive data, and to instruct the publication site server to publish the first time-sensitive data;
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- a user interface communicatively with the publication site server, and comprising a third computer readable memory encoded with a third program that configures the user interface configured to present the first time-sensitive data ahead of the second time-sensitive data in response to the purchasing server receiving the fee and to the publication site server publishing the first time-sensitive data to the user interface.
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