US Patent:
20130124564, May 16, 2013
Inventors:
Room 77, INC. - Mountain View CA, US
Ian Webster - Mountain View CA, US
Jie Chen - Mountain View CA, US
Sungsoon Cho - Sunnyvale CA, US
Nicholas Edelman - Mountain View CA, US
Calvin Cheng Yang - Foster City CA, US
Assignee:
Room 77, INC. - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
US Classification:
707770, 707E17014, 707E17032
Abstract:
Techniques are provided for a metasearch infrastructure. The metasearch infrastructure supports one or more of the following: hotel matching, backend support of user queries, frontend support for user queries, a cache layer that groups or organizes cached data in storage based on hotel location, scoring and ranking on the client side, experiments and rankers, duplicate booking prevention, blacklisting hotels, and indexing that utilizes a document-independent data structure to store index values.