Patents Assigned to Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation
  • Publication number: 20130124509
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented using one or more computing devices within a networked computing environment to employ publish-subscribe techniques to associate subscriber encoded data files with a set of publisher encoded data files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: YAHOO! Inc., a Delaware Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Shraer, Maxim Gurevich, Vanja Josifovski, Marcus Fontoura
  • Publication number: 20130110643
    Abstract: Methods and Systems for facilitating caching of advertisements are described. The methods include receiving an ad request and generating a serving plan in response to said receiving the ad request. The serving plan includes multiple cache lines that identify corresponding advertisements. Each of the cache lines is associated with a corresponding expiration. Also, each cache line is readable by logic to display one of the advertisements corresponding to the cache line. The cache lines include a first cache line. The first cache line includes ad information, which is associated with a first one of the advertisements. Moreover, the ad information includes one or more parameters for expiration of the first cache line of a client device. The client device is configured to display the plurality of advertisements. The method includes sending the serving plan to the client device to store in the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Prabhakar Goyal, Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Rampradeep Dodda
  • Publication number: 20120012278
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow one or more fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves fanless servers installed on the server racks and introduces fan units to draw cooling air from the cold row encapsulation structure through the fanless servers on the racks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Scott Noteboom, Albert Dell Robison
  • Publication number: 20110208718
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to determine one or more selectable anchor identifiers for one or more search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventor: Paul Tarjan
  • Publication number: 20110166942
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support contract auctions for sponsored search advertising for use in auction management systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Serguei Vassilvitskii, Sebastien Lahaie, Sharad Goel
  • Publication number: 20110087673
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed that relate to ranking functions for multiple different domains. By way of example but not limitation, ranking functions for multiple different domains may be trained based on inter-domain loss, and such ranking functions may be used to rank search results from multiple different domains so that they may be blended without normalizing relevancy scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Jiang Chen, Wei Chu, Zhenzhen Kou, Zhaohui Zheng
  • Publication number: 20110072025
    Abstract: Exemplary methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support ranking entity relations utilizing the vocabulary of at least one external corpus for use in search engine information management systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Borkur Sigurbjornsson
  • Publication number: 20110054960
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with at least one embodiment, a method or apparatus capable of creating or generating web pages dynamically (or a portion thereof) is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Tarun Bhatia, Darshan V. Kantak, Eric T. Bax, Ramazan Demir
  • Publication number: 20100332491
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that may be used to utilize user selection data on web documents in a list of search results to provide relevant search results in response to a search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Hang Cui, Srihari Reddy, Donald Metzler
  • Publication number: 20100313205
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and/or method offline data generation for online system analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventor: Feng Shao
  • Publication number: 20100306210
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to clustering identical or disjoint keyword sets for use with auctions for online advertising space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo., Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Grant Wang, Mohammad Mahdian
  • Publication number: 20100287129
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with categorizing or selecting potential search engine results are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Su Han Chan, Sean Suchter, Andrew Tomkins, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Dmitri Pavlovski
  • Publication number: 20100280889
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to online advertising inventory purchase controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Melanie Gabriel, Sundar Seshadri, Robert van Gent, Venkatesh B. Natrajan, Stephan Cunningham
  • Publication number: 20100268709
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with calibrating one or more relevance scores are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventor: Alex Cozzi
  • Publication number: 20100257175
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with events and joining events are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
    Inventors: Santhosh Srinivasan, Partha Saha, Swaroop Jagadish, Kurt Peterson
  • Publication number: 20100228745
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with sorting candidate values are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicants: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Brown University
    Inventors: Aris Anagnostopoulos, Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Mohammad Mahdian, Eli Upfal
  • Publication number: 20100205183
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that may be used to selectively decode results in messages received from child nodes for a particular search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Scott Banachowski, Swee Lim, Ki Moon Kim, Arun Kejariwal
  • Publication number: 20100198770
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to identifying previously annotated web page information are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Srinivasan H. Sengamedu, Kalyan K. Kumar, Charu Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20100198688
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to truthful pricing schemes for a seller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Rica Gonen, Sergei Vassilvitskii
  • Publication number: 20100198689
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to implementing a budget balanced/surplus syndicated sponsored search market.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Rica Gonen, Colin Brady