Patents Assigned to wetpaint.com, inc.
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Patent number: 9197512Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards determining an overall success of a plurality of features and recommending a subset of those features to a user for generating new content. For each feature that is associated with content, an overall success may be determined based on a success of each of a plurality of content that the feature is associated. A subset of the features may be displayed to the user—from which the user can select features to utilize for generating the new content. Based on the features selected by the user, the displayed features may be dynamically updated to include one or more recommended features. A feature may be recommended to the user based on a combination of the overall success of each selected feature and the overall success of each recommended feature. The selected features may be utilized to create the new content.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Bo Steven Finneman, Dmitry Frenkel
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Patent number: 8984082Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards personalizing content to be provided to a user. A recommendation score may be determined for a piece of content for a user. The recommendation score may be based on a combination of an intrinsic value and/or a social value of the content to the user. The social value may be calculated based on a combination of an individual social value for each of the user's friends, which may be determined based on the combination of a social weight, an interest probability, and a recommendation score for the friend. Online personalization of content for a user may provide the user with the tools to be a valuable, appreciated member of the user's social network. By employing embodiments, as described herein, content may be determined and provided to a user, which may help the user gain the attention of their social circles.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Dmitry Frenkel
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Patent number: 8977701Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards modifying when to publish content to a channel for distribution based on monitored actions associated with previously published content. A plurality of publishing slots may be determined from a plurality of time slots. Each publishing slot may indicate a time to publish content to the channel. Content may be published to the channel at each of the plurality of publishing slots. User actions associated with the published content may be monitored. The plurality of publishing slots may be ranked based on these monitored actions. At least one of the plurality of publishing slots may be modified to a different time slot based on the rankings of the publishing slots. The publication of content at a publishing slot may be delayed based on a success of other content published at a previous publishing slot being above a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventors: Dmitry Frenkel, Alex David Weinstein, Sean Cappello
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Publication number: 20140278908Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing contextual recommendations that can be employed with content when provided to a channel. A test for a variable having at least two outcomes may be determined to be employed with selected content. Each outcome may correspond to a different contextual recommendation. Each selected content may be published to the channel at least twice, where a portion of the selected content may be initially published based on a contextual recommendation corresponding to a first outcome and later republished based on another contextual recommendation corresponding to the second outcome, and a separate portion of the selected content may be initially published based on the other contextual recommendation corresponding to the second outcome and later republished based on the contextual recommendation corresponding to the first outcome. A preferred outcome for the test may be determined based on user actions associated with the published selected content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: WETPAINT.COM, INC.Inventors: Peter Raymond Ondish, Alex David Weinstein
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Patent number: 8812608Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards modifying when to publish content to a channel for distribution based on monitored actions associated with previously published content. A plurality of publishing slots may be determined from a plurality of time slots. Each publishing slot may indicate a time to publish content to the channel. Content may be published to the channel at each of the plurality of publishing slots. User actions associated with the published content may be monitored. The plurality of publishing slots may be ranked based on these monitored actions. At least one of the plurality of publishing slots may be modified to a different time slot based on the rankings of the publishing slots. The publication of content at a publishing slot may be delayed based on a success of other content published at a previous publishing slot being above a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventors: Dmitry Frenkel, Alex David Weinstein, Sean Cappello
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Patent number: 8762472Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards personalizing content to be provided to a user. A recommendation score may be determined for a piece of content for a user. The recommendation score may be based on a combination of an intrinsic value and/or a social value of the content to the user. The social value may be calculated based on a combination of an individual social value for each of the user's friends, which may be determined based on the combination of a social weight, an interest probability, and a recommendation score for the friend. Online personalization of content for a user may provide the user with the tools to be a valuable, appreciated member of the user's social network. By employing embodiments, as described herein, content may be determined and provided to a user, which may help the user gain the attention of their social circles.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Dmitry Frenkel
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Patent number: 8706673Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing contextual recommendations that can be employed with content when provided to a channel. A test for a variable having at least two outcomes may be determined to be employed with selected content. Each outcome may correspond to a different contextual recommendation. An outcome to employ with the content may be randomly determined/selected such that each of the outcomes of the test is selected a substantially similar number of times. The content may be modified and/or provided to the channel based on contextual recommendations that correspond to the determined outcome. Actions associated with a plurality of content may be monitored and/or analyzed to determine metrics for each outcome of a test. A comparison of the metrics for each outcome may be utilized to determine a preferred outcome for the test.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Bo Steven Finneman, Christopher Edgar Newell, Werner Koepf, Dmitry Frenkel
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Publication number: 20140095611Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing a plurality of channels for providing content to users. New channels may be automatically generated based on sub-interest groups of existing channels, which may generate a hierarchy of channels, where new content may be posted and/or provided to the new channel, and/or a parent channel. The new channel may be proposed to a user, that accesses content on a channel, to invite the user to subscribe to the new channel. The proposed channel may be determined based on a weight of channels associated with the accessed content. Similarly, a proposed channel may be provided to a publisher for new content based on the weight of channels associated with the new content. Channels may be discontinued if a value of the channel falls below a predetermined threshold. Channels with overlapping characteristics may be merged together if the overlapping channels satisfy merging criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: WETPAINT.COM, INC.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Bo Steven Finneman, Dmitry Frenkel, Peter Raymond Ondish
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Publication number: 20140067953Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards personalizing content to be provided to a user. A recommendation score may be determined for a piece of content for a user. The recommendation score may be based on a combination of an intrinsic value and/or a social value of the content to the user. The social value may be calculated based on a combination of an individual social value for each of the user's friends, which may be determined based on the combination of a social weight, an interest probability, and a recommendation score for the friend. Online personalization of content for a user may provide the user with the tools to be a valuable, appreciated member of the user's social network. By employing embodiments, as described herein, content may be determined and provided to a user, which may help the user gain the attention of their social circles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: WETPAINT.COM, INC.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Dmitry Frenkel
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Publication number: 20130346575Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards modifying when to publish content to a channel for distribution based on monitored actions associated with previously published content. A plurality of publishing slots may be determined from a plurality of time slots. Each publishing slot may indicate a time to publish content to the channel. Content may be published to the channel at each of the plurality of publishing slots. User actions associated with the published content may be monitored. The plurality of publishing slots may be ranked based on these monitored actions. At least one of the plurality of publishing slots may be modified to a different time slot based on the rankings of the publishing slots. The publication of content at a publishing slot may be delayed based on a success of other content published at a previous publishing slot being above a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: WETPAINT.COM, INC.Inventors: Dmitry Frenkel, Alex David Weinstein, Sean Cappello
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Patent number: 8612375Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing contextual recommendations that can be employed with content when provided to a channel. A test for a variable having at least two outcomes may be determined to be employed with selected content. Each outcome may correspond to a different contextual recommendation. An outcome to employ with the content may be randomly determined/selected such that each of the outcomes of the test is selected a substantially similar number of times. The content may be modified and/or provided to the channel based on contextual recommendations that correspond to the determined outcome. Actions associated with a plurality of content may be monitored and/or analyzed to determine metrics for each outcome of a test. A comparison of the metrics for each outcome may be utilized to determine a preferred outcome for the test.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: WETPAINT.COM, Inc.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Bo Steven Finneman, Christopher Edgar Newell, Werner Koepf, Dmitry Frenkel
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Patent number: 8555200Abstract: A representational editing system for WYSIWYG editing of editable web pages with embedded content elements. The representational editing system presents embedded content elements in an editable manner that represents their actual appearance on the web page. Typically, the representational editing system displays an image in place of the embedded content. The representational editing system enables users to modify editable attributes of embedded content in a WYSIWYG editing environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: wetpaint.com, inc.Inventors: Ryan Hicks, Alex Berg, Simon Gershey, Steve Apel
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Publication number: 20130219282Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards determining an overall success of a plurality of features and recommending a subset of those features to a user for generating new content. For each feature that is associated with content, an overall success may be determined based on a success of each of a plurality of content that the feature is associated. A subset of the features may be displayed to the user—from which the user can select features to utilize for generating the new content. Based on the features selected by the user, the displayed features may be dynamically updated to include one or more recommended features. A feature may be recommended to the user based on a combination of the overall success of each selected feature and the overall success of each recommended feature. The selected features may be utilized to create the new content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventor: Wetpaint.com, Inc.
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Patent number: 8516366Abstract: A method and system allows a user to add content to a displayable content container (e.g., web page) that specifies at least one modifiable portion, where the modifiable portion is served by a server operated by one entity, but provided to the server by a service operated by another entity. The modifiable portion is attributable to the one entity and remaining content in the displayable content container is not editable by the users. Other features, such as user authentication mechanisms, are also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: wetpaint.com, inc.Inventors: Ryan Hicks, Blake Macurdy, Steve McQuade, Ben Elowitz
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Publication number: 20130124634Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing contextual recommendations that can be employed with content when provided to a channel. A test for a variable having at least two outcomes may be determined to be employed with selected content. Each outcome may correspond to a different contextual recommendation. An outcome to employ with the content may be randomly determined/selected such that each of the outcomes of the test is selected a substantially similar number of times. The content may be modified and/or provided to the channel based on contextual recommendations that correspond to the determined outcome. Actions associated with a plurality of content may be monitored and/or analyzed to determine metrics for each outcome of a test. A comparison of the metrics for each outcome may be utilized to determine a preferred outcome for the test.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: WETPAINT.COM, INC.Inventor: WETPAINT.COM, INC.
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Publication number: 20130123020Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing contextual recommendations that can fee employed with content when provided to a channel. A test for a variable having at least two outcomes may be determined to be employed with selected-content. Each outcome may correspond to a different contextual recommendation. An outcome to employ with the content may be randomly determined/selected such that each of the outcomes of the test is selected a substantially similar number of times. The content may be modified and/or provided to the channel based on contextual recommendations that correspond to the determined outcome. Actions associated with a plurality of content may be monitored and/or analyzed to determine metrics for each outcome of a test A comparison of the metrics for each outcome may be utilized to determine a preferred outcome for the test.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: WETPAINT.COM, INC.Inventor: WETPAINT.COM, INC.
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Method and apparatus for retrieving and editing dynamically generated content for editable web pages
Patent number: 8433999Abstract: A method and system for WYSIWYG editing of dynamic content on editable web pages. Generated content is content that is received periodically from a dynamic source. Generated content may be represented on an editable web page by instructions that describe how to generate the dynamic content. The generated content system presents generated elements in a non-editable manner while allowing modification of their instructions and also allowing complete editing functionality of any surrounding static content. Thus, the generated content system allows the user to include generated content in an editable web page in a way that clearly identifies the generated content during editing and still allows the user to modify the content.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: wetpaint.com, inc.Inventors: Ryan Hicks, Alex Berg, Simon Gershey, Steve Apel -
Publication number: 20090320119Abstract: A method and system allows a user to add content to a displayable content container (e.g., web page) that specifies at least one modifiable portion, where the modifiable portion is served by a server operated by one entity, but provided to the server by a service operated by another entity. The modifiable portion is attributable to the one entity and remaining content in the displayable content container is not editable by the users. Other features, such as user authentication mechanisms, are also described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: wetpaint.com, inc.Inventors: Ryan Hicks, Blake Macurdy, Steve McQuade, Ben Elowitz
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Publication number: 20080244740Abstract: A system for editing a web page includes receiving the web page in a normalized form, where the normalized form is independent of any browser form. The page may be displayed to a user, where the web page has been translated from the normalized form to a browser-dependent form, and editable by the user. The web page may be a Wiki or collaborate web page. Overall, described in detail above is a unified editing system for editing a collaborative web page is described. The collaborative web page having a normalized form that is independent of any browser form. The system displays the collaborative web page that has been translated from the normalized form to a browser-dependent form to a user, wherein the browser-dependent form of the collaborative web page is editable by a user. The unified editing system receives from the user the edited collaborative web page in the browser-dependent form. Other features and aspects of the invention are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: wetpaint.com, inc.Inventors: Ryan Hicks, Simon Gershey, Blake Macurdy, Alex Berg, Steve Apel