Airbnb, Inc. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150317400 | RE-RANKING SEARCH RESULTS FOR LOCATION REFINING AND DIVERSITY - An online booking system allows users to search and book listings of goods or services. When a user searches for listings, the listings are ranked and scored based on a number of factors including the location and the price of the listing, the number and quality of reviews and the number of successful prior bookings. In some situations, the listing scores overly skew the top ranking results to a particular region. The listing scores may be modified to address this skewing of results. When diversity in search results is desired, the listing scores are modified such that the top ranking results that are located in a diverse set of regions. When granular relevance of search results is desired, the listing scores are modified such that the top ranking results are located in regions that are more relevant to the search than the region to which the results are skewed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150206258 | Location Based Ranking of Real World Locations - An online booking system allows users to creates, search, and book listings of goods or services. When a user searches for listings, the listings are ranked at least in part based on a location relevance score including at least one of a city relevance subscore, a neighborhood subscore, and a distance subscore. Generally, the city relevance subscore quantifies the probability that a searching user may have actually intended to look for listings in a city other than the city specified in a search query. Generally, the neighborhood relevance subscore quantifies the popularity of specific neighborhoods within a city as a replacement or addition to the distance subscore that determines a real world distance between a listing's real world location and a location specified in a search query. | 07-23-2015 |
20150156208 | Identity and Trustworthiness Verification Using Online and Offline Components - Methods and systems for verifying the identity and trustworthiness of a user of an online system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving online and offline identity information for a user and comparing them to a user profile information provided by the user. Furthermore, the user's online activity in a third party online system and the user's offline activity are received. Based on the online activity and the offline activity a trustworthiness score may be calculated. | 06-04-2015 |
20150154163 | THIRD PARTY ASSETS MERGING FOR EMBEDMENT INTO WEB PAGES - An asset merging system generates a merge file containing assets from multiple party systems. The asset merging system receives the assets and determines whether any of the assets has changed versus previously received versions of the assets. If any of the received assets has changed, the asset merging system generates a merge file containing at least the most recent version of the changed assets. The asset merging system then communicates the merge file to a content delivery network (CDN) for serving to users requesting for content that uses the assets in the merge file. | 06-04-2015 |
20140278591 | AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF BOOKING AVAILABILITY FOR USER SOURCED ACCOMMODATIONS - Methods and systems for updating a calendar entry for an accommodation listing are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating an availability model and an acceptance model for an accommodation listing in an accommodation reservation system and determining based on those models the probability that the accommodation listing would be able to be booked. Furthermore, the result of an accommodation search query can be filtered and/or sorted using the determined probability of booking. | 09-18-2014 |