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Article: Patent No. 7,580,868 Issued on Aug. 25, Assigned to Travelocity.com for Rankings Determining Method (Florida Inventors)
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- August 25, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Lynne MacLean and Laura Mesa, all from North Palm Beach, Fla., and Andres Fabris of West Palm Beach, Fla., have developed a method for determining rankings of product providers displayed via a product source system. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,580,868 on Aug. 25.
The patent has been assigned to Travelocity.com LP, Southlake, Texas.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generates a ranked display listing of product providers (such as hotels) in response to a user query wherein the rank is generated based upon a performance factor determined by the system. The invention generates the ...