Patents by Inventor Roelof van Zwol

Roelof van Zwol 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).

  • Patent number: 11861516
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for associating geographical locations with annotations corresponding to content. In one method, a language model is developed. The language model is developed from the location information and the one or more annotations associated with content uploaded by users. The language model is based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over one or more annotations. Further, when a user provides one or more annotations, the system and the method may use the language model to identify one or more locations associated with the one or more annotations provided by the user. The language model predicts one or more geographical locations based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over the annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Pavel Serdyukov
  • Patent number: 10217140
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects associated with contextual, or related, media enrichment presentation item of a media object served via the internet. A request to annotate a media object in connection with the media object's presentation is received, and a media object identifier and a profile identifier are obtained. The media object's information is retrieved using the media object identifier, and a profile is retrieved using the profile identifier. A response including one or more references to one or more media enrichment presentation items is transmitted, each reference to a media enrichment presentation item comprising information for use in retrieving the media enrichment presentation item for presentation in connection with presentation of the media object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Roelof Van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Lyndon Kennedy, Yash Dayal, Mridul Muralidharan, Thomas Gulik, Tejaswi Kasturi
  • Patent number: 10210179
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for identifying and ranking relevant and diverse image search results in response to a query. An optimum set of features is identified for every query. The optimum set of features can be selected from a predefined set of features and can be selected based on a variance across features derived from an initial set of objects returned in response to the query. The optimum set of features can then be used to re-rank the initial set of objects or to search for a second set of objects and rank the second set of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Reinier H. van Leuken
  • Publication number: 20190034816
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for associating geographical locations with annotations corresponding to content. In one method, a language model is developed. The language model is developed from the location information and the one or more annotations associated with content uploaded by users. The language model is based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over one or more annotations. Further, when a user provides one or more annotations, the system and the method may use the language model to identify one or more locations associated with the one or more annotations provided by the user. The language model predicts one or more geographical locations based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over the annotations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Pavel Serdyukov
  • Patent number: 10068178
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for associating geographical locations with annotations corresponding to content. In one method, a language model is developed. The language model is developed from the location information and the one or more annotations associated with content uploaded by users. The language model is based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over one or more annotations. Further, when a user provides one or more annotations, the system and the method may use the language model to identify one or more locations associated with the one or more annotations provided by the user. The language model predicts one or more geographical locations based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over the annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Oath, Inc.
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Pavel Serdyukov
  • Patent number: 10013704
    Abstract: A variety of computer based service that permit users to edit, compose, upload, or otherwise generate content also provide for the integration of sponsored media into presentations along with user-generated content. An exemplary service generates text based on user input, provides tags based on the text to a sponsored media repository, receives a sponsored media data structure in return, and formats sponsored media from the data structure for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventor: Roelof van Zwol
  • Publication number: 20180165540
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to image object recognition or retrieval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo
  • Publication number: 20180124444
    Abstract: A method for determining a subset of users to be shown pre-availability information associated with a new media item is provided. The method includes associating descriptors of a first media item, having a near-zero play-count, in a catalog of an Internet-based media system, identifying a second item having a non-zero play-count, the second item associated with a descriptor of the first item. The method includes collecting pre-availability data describing user interactions with pre-availability elements associated with the first item, the elements being accessible during an intermediate period of time prior to the first item becoming accessible, determining, based on the second item and the collected pre-availability data, a likelihood that a first user will consume the first item, and transmitting a message promoting the first item to a user device of the first user based on that likelihood. Additional systems and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Christopher Baird Steger, Jingu Kim, Yves Raimond
  • Publication number: 20180047064
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects associated with contextual, or related, media enrichment presentation item of a media object served via the internet. A request to annotate a media object in connection with the media object's presentation is received, and a media object identifier and a profile identifier are obtained. The media object's information is retrieved using the media object identifier, and a profile is retrieved using the profile identifier. A response including one or more references to one or more media enrichment presentation items is transmitted, each reference to a media enrichment presentation item comprising information for use in retrieving the media enrichment presentation item for presentation in connection with presentation of the media object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Roelof VAN ZWOL, Lluis Garcia PUEYO, Lyndon KENNEDY, Yash DAYAL, Mridul MURALIDHARAN, Thomas GULIK, Tejaswi KASTURI
  • Patent number: 9870517
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to image object recognition or retrieval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo
  • Patent number: 9799056
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects associated with contextual, or related, media enrichment presentation item of a media object served via the internet. A request to annotate a media object in connection with the media object's presentation is received, and a media object identifier and a profile identifier are obtained. The media object's information is retrieved using the media object identifier, and a profile is retrieved using the profile identifier. A response including one or more references to one or more media enrichment presentation items is transmitted, each reference to a media enrichment presentation item comprising information for use in retrieving the media enrichment presentation item for presentation in connection with presentation of the media object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Roelof Van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Lyndon Kennedy, Yash Dayal, Mridul Muralidharan, Thomas Gulik, Tejaswi Kasturi
  • Patent number: 9619291
    Abstract: An improved system and method for a task management library to execute map-reduce applications is provided. A map-reduce application may be operably coupled to a task manager library and a map-reduce library on a client device. The task manager library may include a wrapper application programming interface that provides application programming interfaces invoked by a wrapper to parse data input values of the map-reduce application. The task manager library may also include a configurator that extracts data and parameters of the map-reduce application from a configuration file to configure the map-reduce application for execution, a scheduler that determines an execution plan based on input and output data dependencies of mappers and reducers, a launcher that iteratively launches the mappers and reducers according to the execution plan, and a task executor that requests the map-reduce library to invoke execution of mappers on mapper servers and reducers on reducer servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Lluís Garcia Pueyo, Roelof van Zwol
  • Patent number: 9563850
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for displaying geographical locations with the one or more annotations. In a particular embodiment, a language model is used to obtain the probability distribution of the locations over one or more annotations. Further, the system and the method utilizes the probability data obtained from the language model to determine a probability score for each location over the one or more annotations. Subsequently, one or more geographical locations are displayed on a world map, based on the probability score of the geographical locations over the one or more annotations. In one embodiment, geographical locations may be highlighted using a color code on a heat map overlaid on the world map. The color code may represent the ranking of the geographical locations based on the calculated probability score for each identified geographical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Lluís Garcia Pueyo
  • Patent number: 9529822
    Abstract: Briefly, one or more embodiments of methods, apparatuses or systems for media or content tagging are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Vanessa Murdock, Roelof van Zwol, Emmanouil Papangelis
  • Patent number: 9508021
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to electronic image object or logo recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Stefan Matthias Romberg
  • Patent number: 9489420
    Abstract: A method of providing in-context exploration of a query results web page, wherein the web page has at least one element and a plurality of query results, receives an indication of interest in the at least one element, and in response to the indication, emphasizes at least one query result relative to the plurality of query results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventor: Roelof van Zwol
  • Publication number: 20160292725
    Abstract: A variety of computer based service that permit users to edit, compose, upload, or otherwise generate content also provide for the integration of sponsored media into presentations along with user-generated content. An exemplary service generates text based on user input, provides tags based on the text to a sponsored media repository, receives a sponsored media data structure in return, and formats sponsored media from the data structure for display to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: Roelof van Zwol
  • Publication number: 20160267548
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects associated with contextual, or related, media enrichment presentation item of a media object served via the internet. A request to annotate a media object in connection with the media object's presentation is received, and a media object identifier and a profile identifier are obtained. The media object's information is retrieved using the media object identifier, and a profile is retrieved using the profile identifier. A response including one or more references to one or more media enrichment presentation items is transmitted, each reference to a media enrichment presentation item comprising information for use in retrieving the media enrichment presentation item for presentation in connection with presentation of the media object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Roelof Van Zwol, LIuis Garcia Pueyo, Lyndon Kennedy, Yash Dayal, Mridul Muralidharan, Thomas Gulik, Tejaswi Kasturi
  • Patent number: 9436950
    Abstract: A variety of computer based service that permit users to edit, compose, upload, or otherwise generate content also provide for the integration of sponsored media into presentations along with user-generated content. An exemplary service generates text based on user input, provides tags based on the text to a sponsored media repository, receives a sponsored media data structure in return, and formats sponsored media from the data structure for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO! Inc.
    Inventor: Roelof van Zwol
  • Publication number: 20160179879
    Abstract: A method of providing in-context exploration of a query results web page, wherein the web page has at least one element and a plurality of query results, receives an indication of interest in the at least one element, and in response to the indication, emphasizes at least one query result relative to the plurality of query results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventor: Roelof van ZWOL