Patents by Inventor Yoelle Maarek

Yoelle Maarek 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: 10031908
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Nadav Golbandi
  • Publication number: 20180196822
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which 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 automatically generate and provide an interactive rich set of personalized query suggestions within a unified framework. The disclosed systems and methods are able to integrate attributes associated with message data and metadata by transforming such attributes into facets that are combined with term suggestions and presented to the user in a unified manner. The instant disclosure provides an interactive search suggestion mechanism that narrows the search as the user interacts with the dynamically generated and provided suggestions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, David Carmel, Ariel Raviv, Alexander Libov, Yoelle Maarek, Peter Monaco
  • Patent number: 9838348
    Abstract: A search query for searching electronic messages, such as email, may be used to search for different types of items, such as and without limitation electronic messages, contacts, photos, documents, such as and without limitation papers, presentations, etc., business entities, personal information extracted from messages, such as and without limitation purchase orders, shipments, reservations, travel itineraries, etc. Several sources of data, which may be indexed for searching, such as and without limitation a personal mail search index, contacts, or business entity, index, attachments index, extracted data index, etc. may be searched using the search query. A number of top search result items, which may include different types of items, may be presented apart from other search result items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Ariel Raviv, David Carmel, Guy Halawi, Zohar Karnin, Peter Monaco
  • Patent number: 9830556
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to formulating synthetic questions, such as in response to a search query, for example. Candidate synthetic questions may be presented to a user who may initiate a search at least in part by selecting one or more candidate synthetic questions, for example, in an embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek, Avihai Mejer, Idan Szpektor, Dan Pelleg
  • Publication number: 20170329779
    Abstract: Relevant messages, or “hero results”, which are not ranked at the uppermost part of a time-based listing of search results are identified and such hero results can be displayed apart from the time-based listing of search results. A user can be provided with messages in a time-based presentation as well as messages in a relevance-based presentation. The user can be presented with the most relevant messages from a set of message generated from a search query, even where the most relevant messages are not the most recent ones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, David Carmel, Yoelle Maarek, Ariel Raviv, Alexander Libov, Peter Monaco
  • Publication number: 20170257329
    Abstract: Disclosure includes an electronic message composition support system, method and architecture. Techniques including machine learning and natural language processing techniques are used to extend message composition capability and support and to provide feedback to a user regarding an error, condition, etc. detected in the user's message before the user sends the message, e.g., while the user is composing the message using a messaging application's user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Edo Liberty, Liangliang Cao, Meizhu Liu, Ellie Pavlick, Gilad Tsur, Yoelle Maarek
  • Publication number: 20170195274
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, generating and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the security and quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide added security features and functionality to messaging platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Edo Liberty, Yoelle Maarek
  • Publication number: 20170169251
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for anonymizing electronic documents. In accordance with one or more embodiments, structurally-similar electronic documents can be identified among a group of electronic documents (e.g., e-mail messages, documents containing HTML formatting, etc.). A hash function can be specifically tailored to identify the similarly structured documents. The structurally-similar electronic documents can be grouped into a same equivalence class. Masked anonymized document samples can be generated from the structurally-similar electronic documents utilizing the same equivalence class, thereby ensuring that the anonymized document samples when viewed as a part of an audit remain anonymous. An online process is provided to guarantee k-anonymity of the users over the entire lifetime of the auditing process. An auditor's productivity can be measured based on the amount of content revealed to the auditor within the samples he is assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, Dotan Di Castro, Eyal Zohar, Yoelle Maarek, Ran Wolff, Doug Sharp
  • Publication number: 20170161395
    Abstract: Users may engage with content that may invoke various emotions. For example, a user may find an image as inspirational, a social network post as funny, etc. Accordingly, content may be labeled with user emotion labels, specified by users that engaged with the content, to create labeled content (e.g., the image may be labeled as inspirational). Emotional transition triggers may be defined for users (e.g., 30 minutes of a user writing a school report using a word processing application). Responsive to a triggering of an emotional transition trigger, labeled content may be provided to a user (e.g., the image may be provided to the user as an inspirational break from writing the school report). In this way, content may be labeled based upon emotions that the content invokes in users, and such labeled content may be provided to users in a contextually relevant manner (e.g., a study break).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Shirin Oskooi, Dan Pelleg, Yoelle Maarek, Samiksha Harish Kothari
  • Patent number: 9613033
    Abstract: Users may engage with content that may invoke various emotions. For example, a user may find an image as inspirational, a social network post as funny, etc. Accordingly, content may be labeled with user emotion labels, specified by users that engaged with the content, to create labeled content (e.g., the image may be labeled as inspirational). Emotional transition triggers may be defined for users (e.g., 30 minutes of a user writing a school report using a word processing application). Responsive to a triggering of an emotional transition trigger, labeled content may be provided to a user (e.g., the image may be provided to the user as an inspirational break from writing the school report). In this way, content may be labeled based upon emotions that the content invokes in users, and such labeled content may be provided to users in a contextually relevant manner (e.g., a study break).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: YAHOO!, INC.
    Inventors: Shirin Oskooi, Dan Pelleg, Yoelle Maarek, Samiksha Harish Kothari
  • Patent number: 9596205
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for managing mailing list newsletter messages for a recipient user, and organizing such messages in accordance with a receiving user's interests. The present disclosure enables novel organizational tools for emails by intuitively organizing received newsletters and providing highly visible features within a user's inbox respective the newsletters. Organization of received newsletters is ensured through ranking users' mailing lists according to his/her interest in them, based on actions made by the respective user, in addition to actions of other users receiving the same newsletters. Additionally, upon reception of such newsletters, the present disclosure provides a specialized view, in addition to added functionality within a user's inbox, thereby enhancing a user's experience and engagement with received messages of a newsletter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Zohar Karnin, Michal Aharon, Edo Liberty, Yoelle Maarek Smadja
  • Publication number: 20170005962
    Abstract: As is disclosed herein, user behavior in connection with a number of electronic messages, such as electronic mail (email) messages, can be used to automatically learn from, and predict, whether a message is wanted or unwanted by the user, where an unwanted message is referred to herein as gray spam. A gray spam predictor is personalized for a given user in vertical learning that uses the user's electronic message behavior and horizontal learning that uses other users' message behavior. The gray spam predictor can be used to predict whether a new message for the user is, or is not, gray spam. A confidence in a prediction may be used in determining the disposition of the message, such as and without limitation placing the message in a spam folder, a gray spam folder and/or requesting input from the user regarding the disposition of the message, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, Guy Halawi, Dotan Di Castro, Zohar Karnin, Yoelle Maarek, Michael Albers
  • Publication number: 20160188599
    Abstract: A search query for searching electronic messages, such as email, may be used to search for different types of items, such as and without limitation electronic messages, contacts, photos, documents, such as and without limitation papers, presentations, etc., business entities, personal information extracted from messages, such as and without limitation purchase orders, shipments, reservations, travel itineraries, etc. Several sources of data, which may be indexed for searching, such as and without limitation a personal mail search index, contacts, or business entity, index, attachments index, extracted data index, etc. may be searched using the search query. A number of top search result items, which may include different types of items, may be presented apart from other search result items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Ariel Raviv, David Carmel, Guy Halawi, Zohar Karnin, Peter Monaco
  • Publication number: 20160119268
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's inbox to detect message specific information corresponding to types of content in the message and the location of such content in the messages. The message specific information is then applied to other newly received or identified messages to learn message specific information about those messages. Based on such learning, information can be extracted from such messages in order to increase a user's experience and increase monetization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Doug Sharp, Varun Bhagwan, Yoelle Maarek
  • Publication number: 20160092432
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Nadav Golbandi
  • Patent number: 9299081
    Abstract: A system and method for learning a new user's interests in the absence of historical data includes: generating a user interface on which a user interacts in a session; formulating questions such that a user response to the questions indicates a preference; presenting the questions to the user on the user interface; receiving responses from the user, the responses indicating user preferences; and populating a new user profile with the user preferences. The steps of presenting, receiving, and populating are repeated until the session terminates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Gideon Dror, Yoelle Maarek, Dan Pelleg, Idan Szpektor
  • Publication number: 20160063004
    Abstract: Users may engage with content that may invoke various emotions. For example, a user may find an image as inspirational, a social network post as funny, etc. Accordingly, content may be labeled with user emotion labels, specified by users that engaged with the content, to create labeled content (e.g., the image may be labeled as inspirational). Emotional transition triggers may be defined for users (e.g., 30 minutes of a user writing a school report using a word processing application). Responsive to a triggering of an emotional transition trigger, labeled content may be provided to a user (e.g., the image may be provided to the user as an inspirational break from writing the school report). In this way, content may be labeled based upon emotions that the content invokes in users, and such labeled content may be provided to users in a contextually relevant manner (e.g., a study break).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Shirin Oskooi, Dan Pelleg, Yoelle Maarek, Samiksha Harish Kothari
  • Publication number: 20150350132
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for predicting future messages. A processor receives a message sent to a user operating a client device, analyzes the message in light of previously identified patterns and scores assigned to scanned messages, determines a future message that should be received by the client device based on the received message, and transmits an item of information based on the determined future message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Zohar Karnin, Yoelle Maarek, David Wajc, Iftah Gamzu
  • Publication number: 20150339590
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to formulating synthetic questions, such as in response to a search query, for example. Candidate synthetic questions may be presented to a user who may initiate a search at least in part by selecting one or more candidate synthetic questions, for example, in an embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek, Avihai Mejer, Idan Szpektor, Dan Pelleg
  • Patent number: 9161188
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Nadav Goldbandi