Patents Assigned to Homeaway, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20160104216
    Abstract: Review data associated with a guest experience at an event, such as a vacation rental, for example, is transmitted over a communications network to one or more networked computing devices for processing the review data into a review data file for publication. The review data may be generated by an application executing on a processor of a client device such as a smartphone, tablet or pad. The review data may include access credentials and location data that may be processed to validate that the review data is legitimate. The review data may include media content captured in-situ at the event while the guest is experiencing the event. Prior to publishing a review data file, an owner may receive a notice and/or a copy of the pending review data file and the owner may take action to cure a less than stellar review and/or amend the review prior to publication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: HomeAway, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Hedley Turner, Daniel Steven Haligas, Velayudhan Venugopal, Alex Holm Devine
  • Publication number: 20150286977
    Abstract: The present application relates generally to systems, software and electronic commerce. More specifically, systems, methods and software to reconcile free-text with structured data are disclosed. Structured data may be in the form of a curated corpus. Free-text may be parsed and one or more terms, words, phrases or the like may be extracted by the parsing and compared with the structured data to determine if there is a difference between the structured data and the free-text it is compared with. Detected differences may be reported (e.g., to an endpoint) in real-time or near real-time and may include a suggestion or recommendation to change the free-text to more closely match the structured data or to change the structured data to more closely match the free-text, or both, for example. An endpoint may be a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, pad, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Homeaway, Inc.
    Inventor: Brent Schneeman