Patents Assigned to Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
  • Patent number: 11875382
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for customizing a software application for a target market. A request to access an application is received, by one or more computer servers, from a user. At least one of a preferred language of the user and a location of the user are determined by the one or more computer servers, and a target market is determined using the at least one of the preferred language of the user and the location of the user. The target market defines a language and a region. The application is rendered by the one or more computer servers by modifying at least one of a user interface of the application and a content of the application using the target market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Carroll, Philip Davidson, Thyagarajan Lakshmanan
  • Patent number: 11847683
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure describes a method that includes at least: receiving, by a processor, audience data identifying candidate audience for a website content; generating a plurality of audience groups based on the audience data; receiving user identifying data of a user; generating personalized online content for the user; tagging the personalized online content with a plurality of dynamic tokens to form trackable personalized online content; transmitting instructions to display the trackable personalized online content on a screen of a computing device; receiving user activity tracking data; training a machine learning algorithm, based on the user activity tracking data, to obtain a trained machine learning content recommendation engine; and utilizing the trained machine learning content recommendation engine to identify updated trackable personalized online content based on a plurality of markups to the trackable personalized online content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Angeley Mullins, Ana Alicia Grace, Stacy SteinKuller, Joshua Ray Rossman, Garrett Matsudaira, Stephen Russell Baird, Anirban Kundu
  • Patent number: 11632353
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network, running a DNS server, and configured to: receive, from a client computer, an electronic message encoding a DNS request; access, within a database, at least one DNS record comprising: a designation of the DNS server as an authoritative DNS server for the DNS request; and a resource record designating a secondary authoritative server running on a second server computer; transmit, to the client computer, a DNS result according to the first resource record; transmit, to the secondary authoritative server, a second electronic message encoding a DNS query according to the second resource record; receive, from the secondary authoritative server, a DNS query result; store the DNS query result within a cache stored within the server computer; and transmit, to the client computer, the DNS query result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Blinn
  • Patent number: 11615313
    Abstract: A training set may be created to train a machine learning engine, such as an artificial neural network (ANN), to value a target domain name using data from previously sold domain names. The training set may comprise a plurality of word features vector of real numbers (information related to the words or tokens within the sold domain names), a plurality of word embedding vector of real numbers (word embedding of the words within the sold domain names), a plurality of context embedding vector of real numbers (sale context, i.e., location and date of a sale of a sold domain name), a plurality of DNS embedding vector of real number (DNS information of the sold domain name) and/or a plurality of domain name features vector of real numbers (data regarding the sold domain name). The ANN may then be trained on the training set, using the methods of gradient descent and back propagation, to value a target domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Ansel
  • Patent number: 11487744
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive a string used to search an available domain name, identify a token within the string including a unigram, and generate and transmit one or more available domain name candidates including a unigram and one or more tokens interchangeable with a token previously co-occurring with the unigram token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Wei-Cheng Lai
  • Patent number: 11372935
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: store data records associated with an industry, with tags defining the content, layout or style of a website; aggregate industry related data records via data entry or extraction; receive a request to automatically generate a website in a specific industry; query a database for the most frequently occurring website features; and automatically generate the website according to the most frequently occurring website features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Berk, Justin Tsai, Daniel K. Hardy
  • Patent number: 11303610
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for servers generating a suggested domain name from a requested domain name via a modification using a variation algorithm using a first variation technique in a plurality of variation techniques. The server(s) render a user feedback interface including the suggested domain name and a first and second user interface control encoding a positive and negative response to the variation technique respectively. After decoding a response, the server(s) generate a user interface allowing the user to review which of the suggested domain names have been liked or added to a favorites list by other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Tapan Kamdar, Garrett Matsudaira, Nitin Gupta, Edward J. Karcher, III, Andrew Burgess
  • Patent number: 11294968
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: store a plurality of website feature data records including a first record defining a first website feature and a second record defining a second website feature; compare the records to determine whether a tag or metadata element within the records is common to both; if so, insert an affinity data record into the database defining a combination of the two website feature data records; and in response to a request, automatically generate and publish a website including the combination of the website features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Berk, Justin Tsai, Daniel K. Hardy
  • Patent number: 11258730
    Abstract: A method is provided to receive an SMS message from a sender device addressed to a receiver device. Similar SMS messages addressed to the receiver device are determined. One or more of the most common responses to the similar SMS messages are determined. One or more of the most common responses are transmitted as selectable responses to the receiver device. A selected response is sent to the sender device. Another method is provided to receive an SMS message from a sender device and transmit the SMS message to a receiver device. A response from the receiver device may be received and transmit to the sender device. The SMS messages and responses collected by repeating this process may be stored in a database so that the most frequently asked questions and their corresponding most frequent answers may be determined. The most frequently asked questions and their corresponding answers may be used to build a webpage of a website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Francesco Maria Ferrari, Yuhan Chen, Siddharth Dinesh
  • Patent number: 11256770
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: identify a business name within an aggregation of business names; tokenize the business name; match a resulting token to an industry related keyword; generate a template with placeholders replacing a prefix or a suffix appended to the token from a recognized pattern; identify a request to generate a name candidate, select a personalized data associated with the requesting user and an associated industry; and generate a list of name candidates, with the personalized data inserted into the placeholder; then determines the availability and ranks each name candidate in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Tejas Prakash Bajaj, Salvador Celis, Tapan Kamdar, Wei-Cheng Lai, Xiang Mao, Yu Tian, Jyothiprakash Trishuleshwar, Wenbo Wang, Grace Wardhana
  • Patent number: 11245665
    Abstract: Methods are taught for creating training data for a learning algorithm, training the learning algorithm with the training data and using the trained learning algorithm to suggest domain names to users. A domain name registrar may store activities of a user on a registrar website. Preferably, domain name searches, selected suggested domain names and domain names registered to the user are stored as the training data in a training database. The training data may be stored so that earlier activities act as inputs to the learning algorithm while later activities are the expected outputs of the learning algorithm. Once trained, the learning algorithm may receive activities of other users and suggest domain names to the other users based on their activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Wei-Cheng Lai, Yu Tian, Wenbo Wang, Chungwei Yen
  • Patent number: 11244331
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to run, within an active memory: a data collection module aggregating a plurality of domain name data; a profile generation module generating a domain name profile from the domain name data comprising attributes associated with a first domain name; a graph generation module defining domain names sharing attributes with the domain name, a second domain name in the domain names sharing a greatest number of attributes with the first domain name and closest, in proximity within a generated graph, to the first domain name; and a domain name strategy suggestion module rendering a user interface comprising a user interface control that identifies a referral to an administrator for the second domain name and provides, within the user interface control, a link for contacting the administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Blake Irving, Rene Reinsberg, Tina Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11223617
    Abstract: An Internet resource provider (IRP) may authenticate a user and, upon a successful authentication, allow the user to perform one or more actions on webpages that are within an account of the user. The IPR may store the most recent actions of the user in a temporary access code (TAC) database. If the user has a problem, the user may select a TAC button on a webpage within the account of the user. The IPR may generate a TAC, store the TAC in association with the recent activities of the user in the TAC database and transmit the TAC to the user. The user may contact and provide the TAC to a customer support service center. The customer support service center may authenticate the user based solely on the TAC and determine the one or more recent actions of the user in the TAC database. The customer support service center may provide assistance to the user based at least partially on the one or more recent actions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Mitchell Dean Olson, Jacob Louis Brooks, John Basyl Kercheval
  • Patent number: 11184321
    Abstract: A computer-based method includes receiving, by at least one first server managed by a first domain name registrar, a search string that identifies a desired domain name by a potential owner. The desired domain name is determined to be available for transfer. A firm domain name transfer request for the desired domain name is received from the potential owner and sent to at least one domain name aftermarket server operating an Aftermarket Platform. An approval notification is received that the firm domain name transfer request is approved by the current owner. An authorization code for authorizing an electronic transfer of the desired domain name is received and utilized to transfer the desired domain name from a second domain name registrar to an account of the potential owner with the first domain name registrar so that the potential owner becomes a new owner of the desired domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Ptalis, Paul Nicks, Frank Taylor
  • Patent number: 11178239
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive, from an app running on a mobile device determined to be operating in a business mode, an incoming data; display, on the mobile device, a request for, and a confirmation that the incoming data comprises a website content and its description; generate a metadata from the description defining at least one detail of the website content; define, within a data record storing the incoming data, the website content and the metadata defining one or more details of the website content; determine that a quantity of the website content is above a required threshold to generate the website; and generate the website comprising the website content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Berk, Justin Tsai
  • Patent number: 11128476
    Abstract: A Domain Name System (DNS) provider that is not a registrar of a domain name may nonetheless request a registry (possibly via an API request from the registrar to the registry, or via a call directly to the registry) to alter a Delegation Signer (DS) record in a DNS parent zone or other data controlled by the registry. The registry preferably confirms that the DNS provider has control over a nameserver for the domain name. Using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), the DNS provider may sign the request with a private key and store the public key in a location that confirms the DNS provider has control over the domain name or over the nameservers for the domain name. After successfully confirming the DNS provider, the registrar or registry may change the DS record so that the domain name supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) or update other data with the registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Christopher Ambler
  • Patent number: 11087374
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive a request for a modification to domain name management; analyze metadata and registrant accounts associated with the request; determine whether related domain name activities indicate high or low risk of malicious behavior; if high risk, the request may be queued for manual review; on manual review, if the request is deemed high risk, an attempt to contact the registrant may be made; if unsuccessful, or if the registrant verifies an invalid request, the request may be cancelled. if the behavior or request is low risk, and/or if the registrant confirms the request is valid, the request may be approved and fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Merdinger, Jody Kolker, Christine Turner
  • Publication number: 20210174423
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure describes a method that includes at least: receiving, by a processor, audience data identifying candidate audience for a website content; generating a plurality of audience groups based on the audience data; receiving user identifying data of a user; generating personalized online content for the user; tagging the personalized online content with a plurality of dynamic tokens to form trackable personalized online content; transmitting instructions to display the trackable personalized online content on a screen of a computing device; receiving user activity tracking data; training a machine learning algorithm, based on the user activity tracking data, to obtain a trained machine learning content recommendation engine; and utilizing the trained machine learning content recommendation engine to identify updated trackable personalized online content based on a plurality of markups to the trackable personalized online content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Angeley Mullins, Ana Alicia Grace, Stacy SteinKuller, Joshua Ray Rossman, Garrett Matsudaira, Stephen Russell Baird, Anirban Kundu
  • Patent number: 10904213
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a server computer coupled to a network and configured to: receive an image; transmit the digital image to an API operated by at least one metadata generation service, and receive a metadata data set about the digital image, prioritize a plurality of keywords within the data set, generate a list of candidate domain names including a keyword, insert a second candidate domain name into the list comprising a keyword replacing or concatenated to the keyword and associated with a lower priority than the keyword; and transmit the list to a client computer for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jesse Bilsten
  • Patent number: 10848479
    Abstract: A domain name registrar may provide a service for a domain name registrant to automatically and without further action by the domain name registrant (other than possibly paying for the service) enable secure socket layer (SSL) for a domain name to a third party hosting service, even when the domain name registrar does not own or control the third party hosting service. The invention allows a user (that may or may not be the domain name registrant) to use the domain name registered to the domain name registrant to communicate with a domain name registrant account (possibly a website) on the third party hosting service via a proxy server. The communication between the user and the proxy server may be encrypted such as by the SSL protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne Thayer, Elissa Murphy, Marek Olszewski, Silas Boyd-Wickizer