Method and apparatus for quickly evaluating entities

US11709851B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Opentable, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jeremy Ryan Schiff · Portola Valley, US
• Sourav Chatterji · Fremont, US
• Corey Layne Reese · Portola Valley, US
• Steven Charles Schlansker · Los Altos, US
• Leejay Wu · Mountain View, US
• Paul Kenneth Twohey · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 23, 2020
• Grant date: Jul 25, 2023
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/955
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for evaluating entities for a target user, the method comprising obtaining, at a server computer, entity data from a plurality of data sources. The entity data is then stored in an entity database. The method further comprises merging the entity data from the plurality of data sources, mapping the entity data to a corresponding entity, and differentiating the entity. Then a relevance is determined associated with the entity data and data source. The method further comprises generating a set of entity evaluations to the target user using the relevance, determining a set of one or more entities relevant to the primary user based on the entity data, user data, and the relevance, with an initial order of relevance, and displaying, on a user device, the set of relevant entities to the target user in the order of relevance.