Patent ID: 8391798
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing information, comprising: determining a service related to content in a messaging service message sent by a user; ranking service providers for the determined service based on at least relevancy to the determined service, wherein the relevancy is determined based on a machine learning ranking system, and wherein factors for determining the relevancy include a location of the service provider, the age of the user, the gender of the user, a quantity of transactions successfully completed by the service provider, and a user location, wherein the user location is a user-requested location if the user requested a location, and wherein the user location is the user's current location otherwise; determining one or more top-ranked service providers to provide to the customer, based on the determined service, wherein the determination is accomplished by a processor employing processor-executable code; for each of the determined one or more top-ranked results, dynamically assigning an associated obfuscated phone number for phone interactions between the user and the service provider of the result; and providing the determined one or more of the top ranked results of service providers to the customer, including, for each of the provided results, a name of the service provider, and the associated obfuscated phone number.