Patents by Inventor Narayanan Shivakumar
Narayanan Shivakumar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20170228765Abstract: Methods and systems that allow a user (e.g., an Internet distribution partner of an advertisement listings provider, etc.) to selectively adjust the display of advertisements through an online interface. For example, an embodiment of the present invention allows users (e.g., publishers, account managers, etc.) to adjust the targeting of content advertisements on individual URLs, domains, properties, etc. Users can manually replace advertisements or apply various filters used to generate advertisements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Alex Carobus, Jonathan Rosenberg, Narayanan Shivakumar, Brian Axe
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Patent number: 9355177Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling documents for crawling are disclosed in which sitemap information is updated for a first website identified by a sitemap by downloading updated sitemap information for the first website and scheduling documents for crawling in accordance with the updated sitemap information for the first website. The sitemap information includes one or more sitemap indexes, where each respective sitemap index in the one or more sitemap indices includes a list of URLs corresponding to documents stored at a corresponding website in a plurality of websites, the plurality of websites including the first website, and each sitemap index in the one or more sitemap indexes includes information identifying one or more of: a last modification date of a URL in the list of URLs, a change frequency of a document specified by the URL, a document title, an authority of the document, and a priority of the document.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Google, Inc.Inventors: Sascha Benjamin Brawer, Max Ibel, Ralph Michael Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Publication number: 20160116296Abstract: Routing options are provided to a user automatically and in real-time as the user pans over an interactive map. In operation, to provide the routing options in real-time, a map server receives a selection of a focal point overlaid on an interactive map displayed to a user. The location of the focal point relative to the display of the interactive map remains static such that, as the user pans the map, the location of the focal point remains the same but the corresponding location represented by the map changes. As the panning interaction is ongoing, the map server determines the new location corresponding to the focal point and determines routing options from an origin location to the new location. The determined routing options may be displayed to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Giao Nguyen, Winston W. Hsu, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 9152718Abstract: Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Darrell Anderson, Paul Buchheit, Alexander Paul Carobus, Yingwei Cui, Jeffrey A. Dean, Georges R. Harik, Deepak Jindal, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Publication number: 20150242508Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling documents for crawling are disclosed in which sitemap information is updated for a first website identified by a sitemap by downloading updated sitemap information for the first website and scheduling documents for crawling in accordance with the updated sitemap information for the first website. The sitemap information includes one or more sitemap indexes, where each respective sitemap index in the one or more sitemap indices includes a list of URLs corresponding to documents stored at a corresponding website in a plurality of websites, the plurality of websites including the first website, and each sitemap index in the one or more sitemap indexes includes information identifying one or more of: a last modification date of a URL in the list of URLs, a change frequency of a document specified by the URL, a document title, an authority of the document, and a priority of the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Sascha Benjamin Brawer, Max Ibel, Ralph Michael Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 9002819Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling documents for crawling are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining sitemap information for a plurality of websites; and analyzing the sitemap information to identify a website, in the plurality of websites. The website has sitemap information that is at least potentially out of date. The method also includes updating the sitemap information for the identified website by downloading updated sitemap information for the identified website; and scheduling documents for crawling in accordance with the updated sitemap information for the identified website.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph Michael Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Publication number: 20140337128Abstract: A content-targeting ad system is provided with a user behavior (e.g., selection (e.g., click), conversion, etc.) feedback mechanism. The performance of individual ads, or groups of ads, may be tracked on a per document (e.g. per URL) and/or on a per host (e.g. per Website) basis. The performance of ad targeting functions may also be tracked on a per document, and/or per host basis. Such user behavior feedback data may be processed (e.g., aggregated) into useful data structures. Such user behavior feedback data (raw or processed) may then be used in a content-targeting ad system to improve ad quality, improve user experience, and/or maximize revenue.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Alexander P. Carobus, Narayanan Shivakumar, Yingwei Claire Cui, Deepak Jindal, Steve Lawrence
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Patent number: 8706546Abstract: Ads eligible to be served with a document (for example, because they are relevant to the document) may each be scored using a price parameter associated with the ad and an indication of relevancy of the ad to the document. The indication of relevancy of the ad to the document may be based on an ordinal ranking of a relevancy criteria of the document used to select the ad, and/or a value of a relevancy criteria of the document used to select the ad. The eligible ads may be determined by obtaining relevancy criteria for the document and selecting ads using at least some of the obtained relevancy criteria. The ads may be selected, and perhaps filtered, in a distributed manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Darrell Anderson, Alexander Paul Carobus, Giao Nguyen, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8655864Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil
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Publication number: 20140046925Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil
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Publication number: 20140040027Abstract: Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Darrell Anderson, Paul Buchheit, Alexander Paul Carobus, Yingwei Cui, Jeffrey A. Dean, Georges R. Harik, Deepak Jindal, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8533226Abstract: A website may have a number of owners. According to certain embodiments, site owner-information of current owners of the website is provided to a user to enable the user to re-verify the current owners of the website.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Vanessa Fox, Ekta H. Manaktala, Michael E. Noth, Grace Kwak, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8504551Abstract: Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Darrell Anderson, Paul Buchheit, Alexander Paul Carobus, Yingwei Cui, Jeffrey A. Dean, Georges R. Harik, Deepak Jindal, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8417686Abstract: Methods and systems for a web crawler scheduler that utilizes sitemaps from websites are described. A web crawler scheduling system receives a notification from a website or web server. In response to the notification, the system accesses one or more sitemap(s) for documents associated with the website or web server. The system schedules crawls of the documents based on information identified from the sitemaps. The system crawls at least a subset of the documents scheduled for crawling.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph Michael Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8412574Abstract: A content owner partner (e.g., a Website/Web page publisher) can easily block entire broad or narrow categories of ads, and can specify objectionable ad content or targeting. Concepts may be associated with a property and ads related to those concepts may be blocked for the given property. Further, terms may be associated with a property and ads including any of the terms may be blocked for the given property.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Brian Axe, Rama Ranganath, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8359236Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating cookies. Multiple advertisements for multiple advertisers are stored on an ad server. Hostnames specific to each of the multiple advertisers are generated dynamically. The generated hostnames identify the ad server. A reference is generated identifying a particular advertisement of the multiple advertisements and the ad server. The ad server is identified in the reference with the generated hostname associated with the advertiser of the advertisement. The reference is provided to a client. A request is received from the client for the advertisement. The request includes the generated hostname. In response to the request, a client cookie, which includes a unique identifier, is sent to the client.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Rama Ranganath, Narayanan Shivakumar, Deepak Jindal
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Publication number: 20120303451Abstract: A content owner partner (e.g., a Website/Web page publisher) can easily block entire broad or narrow categories of ads, and can specify objectionable ad content or targeting. Concepts may be associated with a property and ads related to those concepts may be blocked for the given property. Further, terms may be associated with a property and ads including any of the terms may be blocked for the given property.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Brian Axe, Rama Ranganath, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8312001Abstract: A method and system for allowing a resource associated with a target document usable for ad rendering by a first entity to be used for rendering of content by a second entity. Depending on one or more conditions, the first entity either uses the resource to render at least one ad or allows a second entity to use at least a portion of the resource to render content.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Bronson, Kevan Quincy Newton, Jason Liebman, Rama Ranganath, Narayanan Shivakumar, Deepak Jindal, Yingwei Claire Cui
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Patent number: 8239263Abstract: A content owner partner (e.g., a Website/Web page publisher) can easily block entire broad or narrow categories of ads, and can specify objectionable ad content or targeting. Concepts may be associated with a property and ads related to those concepts may be blocked for the given property. Further, terms may be associated with a property and ads including any of the terms may be blocked for the given property.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Brian Axe, Rama Ranganath, Narayanan Shivakumar
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Patent number: 8234266Abstract: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alan C. Strohm, Feng Hu, Sascha B. Brawer, Maximilian Ibel, Ralph M. Keller, Narayanan Shivakumar, Elad Gil