US Patent Issued to YEXT on Dec. 2 for "Suppressing duplicate listings on a search provider system" (New York, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,008, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to YEXT INC. (New York).

"Suppressing duplicate listings on a search provider system" was invented by Howard C. Lerman (New York), Thomas C. Dixon (New York), Kevin Caffrey (Alexandria, Va.) and David C. Lin (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method is provided that designates a first listing corresponding to a first web address as a representative listing of an entity. A provider system is searched to identify a second listing associated with the entity, wherein the second listing corresponds to a second web address. A determination is made that the second listing sat...