Patent ID: 9697543
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A system for centrally managing online interactions amongst a plurality of publishers, the system comprising: a network interface to communicate with a client and a first set of publishers over a network providing connectivity to the system, the client and the first set of publishers; a setup interface to receive first content that includes information for unique identification of a business; storage to hold an association between a first category in a directory and the first set of publishers, the first category representing a classification of a set of businesses sharing common attributes; a matching engine to match the business to the first category from storage based at least in part on the first content received through the setup interface; a management interface to compile a superset of content based at least in part on the first set of publishers associated with the first category, the superset of content including types of content for publication by the first set of publishers associated with the first category; an input interface to request and receive second content, wherein the second content is requested for the business based at least in part on the superset of content; a content repository to store the second content received for the business; a publication interface to communicate with the first set of publishers over the network; and a publication engine, using the publication interface, to retrieve at least a portion of the second content from the content repository, transmit the second content to at least a subset of publishers from the first set of publishers, and request publication of listings of the business by each of the subset of publishers.