BusinessFinder is an advanced presence-driven, real-time location based service solution providing consumers the ability to establish an on-demand connection to business services and individual vendors quickly, whenever and wherever needed.
BusinessFinder links business information with network capabilities to build a dynamic real-time repository offering that leverages multiple information channels and communication modalities.
With built-in dynamic appointment scheduling, multi-modal subscription channels, and real-time data-driven matching, BusinessFinder provides enormous opportunities for several businesses to effectively use real-time data and drive revenue. Such opportunities range from better work force management to enabling real-time social networking. In an open market place, it provides significant opportunities to roll-out advertisement portals for micro-businesses where real-time data is one of the key drivers to route requests.
Representative Publications
BusinessFinder: Harnessing Presence to enable Live Yellow Pages for Small, Medium and Micro Mobile Businesses. D. Chakraborty et. al. IEEE Communications, Issue on Networking Technologies in Emerging Economies. Jan 2007. Vol 45. pp 144-151.
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Koustuv Dasgupta, Archan Misra, Efficient Querying and Resource Management Using Distributed Presence Information in Converged Networks, In Proc, th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Nara, Japan, May 2006
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