Patents Assigned to Verizon Media Inc.
  • Patent number: 11190585
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for online distribution of content by receiving, from a user's mobile device, a request for a web page hosted by a publisher's CMS; applying a rules engine to analyze a received URL according to a set of rules identifying one or more website types and/or referrers; if the received URL satisfies the rules engine, redirecting the received request to a syndication server system hosted within a global CDN; adding a URL of the web page to a missing content queue and redirecting the request to the publisher's CMS if the CDN syndication server does not contain a suitable mobile-formatted version of the web page; and delivering a package of binary compressed content of the web page to a stub page cached at the user's mobile device by the CDN syndication server, using recirculation and monetization components chosen by the publisher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventor: Seth Mitchell Demsey
  • Patent number: 11188830
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to generating user profiles with semantic knowledge. A first information associated with a user is obtained. One or more entities are identified from the first information. The one or more entities are augmented based on second information to generate a set of augmented entities. The set of augmented entities are clustered into a set of hierarchical clusters. A set of user profiles is generated based on the set of hierarchical clusters so that the user profile is to be used to personalize content recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Xiang Li, Sungjin Lee, Aasish Pappu, Yifan Hu, Amanda Stent
  • Patent number: 11182419
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A user profile database may be analyzed to identify a first set of user profiles associated with conversion events associated with a first entity and/or a second set of user profiles that are not associated with conversion events associated with the first entity. A first set of vector representations may be generated based upon the first set of user profiles. A second set of vector representations may be generated based upon the second set of user profiles. A request for content associated with a client device may be received. A first vector representation may be generated based upon a first user profile associated with the client device. A user funnel stage score associated with the first entity may be generated based upon the first vector representation, the first set of vector representations and/or the second set of vector representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Wenmiao Lu, Jed Ho Chou, Kehan Jiang, Jeremy Alexander Kanterman
  • Patent number: 11182390
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selecting content items for presentation via client devices are provided. A content event associated with a content item performed by a client device may be detected. The content item may be associated with an entity. A conversion event, associated with the entity, performed by the client device may be detected. A duration of time between the content event and the conversion event may be determined. An attribution score may be determined based upon the duration of time. A plurality of attribution scores, comprising the attribution score, may be stored in an attribution data structure associated with the content item. Responsive to receiving a request for content associated with a second client device, the content item may be selected from a plurality of content items for presentation via the second client device based upon the attribution data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Lakshmi Narayan Bhamidipati, Ravi Kant, Yohay Kaplan, Alexander Shtof
  • Patent number: 11184300
    Abstract: Moments of interest of an event may be automatically detected, encoded as snippets, and distributed to users subscribed to a channel of this event. In various embodiments, a moment of interest of an event is to be automatically detected, e.g., based on a near real-time cue on a social network or features in the event transmission. Further, a snippet can be encoded from the transmission of the event based on the detected moment of interest. The snippet may be put on a market place to be bid by various content distributors. Eventually, the snippet may be distributed to an interested user, e.g., via a channel subscribed by the user. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Jaime Batiz, Niklas Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11184243
    Abstract: A distribution of a content selection being distributed throughout a wireless mesh network may be tracked. A wireless device in the wireless mesh network enables the content selection to be exchanged. Wireless devices then exchange the content, and a network topology is recorded in response. Finally, the network topology is reported to a reporting agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventor: David S. Bill
  • Patent number: 11176572
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining a quantity of network location visitors that are likely generated or encouraged by specific offline events. A corresponding number of leads may then be attributed to and associated with those specific events. Ongoing conversion activity of those visitors may be tracked and associated with the offline events. Conversions of those visitors may be attributed entirely or partially to one or more specific offline events. The effectiveness of each offline may then be evaluated based on aggregate lead and conversion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Armen Avedissian, Nathan Janos
  • Patent number: 11178095
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to processing of notifications displayed on computing devices. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a notification and querying at least one activity database that records historical interactions of a user. The method then receives a priority indicator in response to the querying and determines whether the priority indicator indicates a high priority. If so, the method generates, and in some embodiments displays, a second notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Mohita Goenka, Hafeez Shaik, Luis Alves, Deepesh Mittal
  • Patent number: 11170350
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling users to request information or services relating to a physical facility. One method includes receiving, from a device associated with a user, one or more of: a request to receive information about an asset or component of the facility, and a request to receive maintenance of an asset or component of the facility, wherein the request includes an identifier associated with the user and an identifier associated with the asset or component of the facility; accessing, based on the request, a database storing one or more user identifiers and one or more identifiers associated with a plurality of assets or components of the facility; and transmitting, to the device associated with the user, either a presentation of information about the asset or component of the facility, or a representation of a ticket for initiating maintenance of the asset or component of the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed Abdul Majid, Michael Freker, Maureen Jules
  • Patent number: 11172241
    Abstract: A distributed computing system is configured to compute operational data for a video advertisement delivery system. Cloud-based resource are used to calculate operational parameters such as geographical data, unique advertisement delivery instances and segments of consumers that received the video advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Giao Huu Phan, Daniel Wei-Tze Hsiung, Ian Graeme Melven, Brian Hardie, Joseph Gutierrez, Marshall Allen Beddoe, Pankaj Gupta, Bernardo de Seabra, Dru Nelson, Kam Ho Kenneth Cheung, Jason Endo, Max Sadrieh, Rahul Ravindran, Vikas Unnava, Sharon Paisner, Dia Kharrat
  • Patent number: 11170005
    Abstract: A system and method for ranking query-advertisement combinations is disclosed. Embodiments use an online component to enhance and rank query ad combinations. The query ad combination is then reranked with a trained factorization machine. The subsequent list of ranked query-ad combinations is then output. The output may be to an auction for determine ad-query combinations having the greatest expected revenue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventor: Nagaraj Kota
  • Patent number: 11157967
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to providing content supply adjustment. A first dataset associated with user interactions directed to one or more content items placed on a target property and a second dataset associated with user interactions directed to the one or more content items places on a reference property are received for evaluation. Further, a cost of placing the one or more content items on the target property is determined based on the first and second datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Ayman Farahat, Mounia Lalmas, Gabriele Tolomei
  • Patent number: 11157836
    Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for changing a classification of a landing page, such as via, for example, identifying features of the landing page, such as to predict a binary classification of the landing page as to post-click user experience. One or more adjustments to features of the landing page may be determined, such as using a machine learning approach, by way of non-limiting example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Gabriele Tolomei, Andy Haines, Mounia Lalmas, Fabrizio Silvestri
  • Patent number: 11157875
    Abstract: Systems and methods to extract a string from a communication. A method includes: receiving a communication comprising a plurality of strings; assigning a score to each of the strings, wherein the score assigned to each of the strings corresponds to a frequency of usage of the respective string for a first function relative to an overall frequency of usage of the respective string; determining a respective total sum for each of a plurality of sequences in the communication, the respective total sum determined as a sum of the scores for each string in the respective sequence; and extracting a first sequence of the sequences from the communication based on the total sum for the first sequence. In one embodiment, the total sum includes an additional score for each of a starting word and an ending word of the first word sequence, wherein each respective additional score is associated with a probability that the starting (or ending) word is used as the first (or last word) of an address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Richard Earle Seeger, III, Peter Monaco
  • Patent number: 11157949
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method that includes: profiling a set of mobile applications according to revenue-related parameters; tracking a user's interaction with a mobile application; scoring the user's interaction levels, and based on the score, grouping users into mobile analytics groups associated with the targeting profiles; facilitating the transmission of user information, user interaction data, and specific mobile analytics groups to advertising campaigns. The method may be executed on a digital device. A related system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Rahul Bafna, Mubeen Afzal, Greg Gardner, Simon Khalaf, Rahul Oak
  • Patent number: 11151591
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamic scan code generation are provided. For example, a meta tag, comprising a user identifier of a user and a promotion code for a consumer good, is extracted from information associated with the user, such as from an email sent to the user. When a current location of a computing device of the user is within a threshold distance of a consumer good location that sells the consumer good, a scan code is dynamically generated based upon the user identifier and the promotion code. A notification of the promotion code, a description of the consumer good location, and/or other information is provided to the user such as through a push notification. The scan code is displayed through the computing device for applying the promotion code to a purchase from the consumer good location for the consumer good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: David Scott Robinson, Aaron Robert Martin
  • Patent number: 11151991
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for detecting trigger phrases and transmitting electronic messages to devices are provided. For example, audio received via a microphone of a first device may be monitored. Responsive to detecting a first trigger phrase in a first audio segment identified during the monitoring, a first electronic message comprising instructions to activate a microphone function of a second device may be generated and the first electronic message may be transmitted to the second device. Responsive to detecting a second trigger phrase in a second audio segment identified during the monitoring, a second electronic message comprising instructions to activate a microphone function of a third device may be generated and the second electronic message may be transmitted to the third device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventor: Varun Bhagwan
  • Patent number: 11151630
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate or support one or more processes and/or operations for one or more on-line recommendations, such as product-related recommendations, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: JenHao Hsiao, Jia Li
  • Patent number: 11153253
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine breaking or trending news stories from social media activity, which are then communicated to users via personalized delivery. Thus, the disclosed systems and methods leverage social data, expert knowledge and/or user feedback, which are all available on-line, to determine breaking news stories, which are then delivered to users in a personalized manner specific to each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Maria Zhang, Xue Wu, Qichu Lu, Bill Shapiro
  • Patent number: 11144281
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu