Patents Assigned to Quantcast
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Patent number: 12154131Abstract: A contextual optimization system consistently and reliably determines the context of locations of content and provides an interactive user interface that enables optimization of selection of highly relevant content locations by easily viewing the intersection of information related to actual content, relevance of context, and selections of content locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Sermetcan Baysal, Andrew Stoddart
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Patent number: 12149866Abstract: A videoconferencing system receives audio and/or video signals (“AV”), information, and control signals from meeting participants. The videoconferencing system processes and routes the received AV and information, based on the received control signals, to provide AV and information to meeting participants. The videoconferencing system enables participants to know details about breakout room (e.g., what breakout rooms are available, how many people are attending each breakout room, who is attending each breakout room, the topics of the breakout rooms), hear audio, see video, and receive information corresponding breakout rooms that they have not joined, join a breakout room, leave a breakout room, create breakout rooms, invite other participants to join a breakout room, and make a breakout room private.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Sean Zhu, Sahan Peiris
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Patent number: 12106332Abstract: A dynamically regulated advertising delivery control system. A campaign is operated by sending bids to an exchange responsive to receiving bid requests from the exchange, each bid request representing an opportunity to expose a browser to content. Won bid notifications are received from the exchange and exposure notifications are received from exposed browsers. Failed exposures are detected by detecting won bid notification identifiers without corresponding exposure notification identifiers. Responsive to the failed exposures exceeding an upper limit, the campaign is operated in a throttled mode. Responsive to detecting successful exposures in the throttled mode, the campaign is operated in a recovered mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Maytee Chinavanichkit, Andy Prapanca, Duy Hoang Nguyen
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Patent number: 11917022Abstract: A consent system enables a consumer to save consent choices so that the publisher can retrieve the consumer consent choices when the consumer visits the publisher site, without requiring the consumer to make additional selections corresponding to consent choices. The consumer can save consent choices as a consent system first party cookie or in an account at the consent system. The consumer can save consent choices when visiting a publisher site or by accessing the consent system. The publisher can retrieve the consumer consent choices from the consent system first party cookie or from the account at the consent system. Multiple publishers can retrieve the consumer consent choices saved in an account with the consent system, enabling “cross-platform consent.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Kevin Smith, Airey Baringer, III, Scott S. McCoy
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Patent number: 11907970Abstract: Adaptive control of exposure. A proportional exposure cap is a maximum fraction applicable to a recipient's total viewable attention in a time window. The total viewable attention represents all viewable advertising content which will be provided to the recipient. A notification of availability of an opportunity to expose a specified recipient to advertising content is received during the time window. The specified recipient's consumed viewable attention is detected. The specified recipient's total viewable attention for the time window is predicted. Responsive to the maximum fraction of the specified recipient's predicted total viewable attention for the time window being greater than the consumed viewable attention of the specified recipient, content is sent to the specified recipient and the consumed viewable attention is updated.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Seph Zdarko, Ryan Lei Hin Chan, David Alexander Grant
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Patent number: 11887159Abstract: A device's location and an identifier corresponding to the device are received. The device's location is privatized by mapping it to landmarks proximate to the device's location, storing the proximate landmarks in association with the device's identifier, and discarding the received location data. The proximate landmarks are featurized to generate a model which is used to determine a value of the advertising opportunity corresponding to a target identifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Eunsu Ryu, Sean Huang, Tong T. Pham, Joshua A. Job
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Patent number: 11869043Abstract: An adaptive bidding system for networked advertising. A bid request is received from an exchange over a network. Each bid request represents the opportunity to bid on an advertising opportunity. A processing time limit is determined based at least in part on a network latency measurement and an exchange reported timeout. The execution of one or more tasks is initiated by the adaptive bidding system. A response is determined from one or more results which are available before the processing time limit expires. The execution of any tasks that have not completed execution before the processing time limit expires are terminated. The response is provided to the exchange.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Crispin Edward Harold Flowerday, Faraaz Aejaz Sareshwala, Damian John Reeves
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Patent number: 11776010Abstract: Protected audience selection system. Media consumption histories of browsers which have converted are received at a modeling system where targeting of browsers is prohibited. A model is built by determining a frequency of each respective media consumption event among the histories and comparing each determined frequency of a respective media consumption event to a frequency of the respective media consumption event among a population of browsers without the conversion event. The model is sent to a targeting system which excludes conversion events. A description of the conversion event is received at the targeting system. A history of a targetable browser is received at the targeting system. The model is applied to the history of the targetable browser at the targeting system, where conversion events have been excluded from the history. Advertising content is sent to the targetable browser according to a result of applying the model.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Konrad S. Feldman, Damian John Reeves, Paul G. Sutter
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Patent number: 11769171Abstract: An influence system for predicting advertisement impact for audience selection. An advertising probe campaign is operated by sending an advertisement to each entity in a treatment group of entities. A control group of entities which excludes the treatment group entities is selected and no campaign advertising content is sent to the treatment group entities. An influence model is created by comparing features of the treatment group converters to features of the control group converters. An individual frequency cap is selected for each entity that is a candidate for the advertising campaign based on a result of applying the influence model to the features of the candidate entity. The entity may be selected to receive an advertisement based on the individual frequency cap. Some embodiments are integrated with a real time bidding (RTB) exchange and a bid response may be configured based on the results of applying the influence model.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventor: Tianxiao Huang
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Patent number: 11756070Abstract: An influence system for predicting advertisement impact for advertising response selection. A treatment group of entities is selected which have received an advertising treatment of a campaign. A control group of entities is selected which excludes the treatment group entities is selected which have not received the advertising treatment of the campaign. An influence model is created for each campaign by comparing features of the treatment group converters to features of the control group converters. A campaign is selected for an opportunity to expose a specified entity to advertising based on the result of applying each respective campaign's influence model to features of the specified entity.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventor: Tianxiao Huang
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Patent number: 11669869Abstract: A dynamically regulated advertising delivery control system. A campaign is operated by sending bids to an exchange responsive to receiving bid requests from the exchange, each bid request representing an opportunity to expose a browser to content. Won bid notifications are received from the exchange and exposure notifications are received from exposed browsers. Failed exposures are detected by detecting won bid notification identifiers without corresponding exposure notification identifiers. Responsive to the failed exposures exceeding an upper limit, the campaign is operated in a throttled mode by sending bids to the exchange in response to a fraction of the suitable bid requests received from the exchange and ignoring some suitable bid requests. Responsive to detecting successful exposures in the throttled mode, the operation of the campaign is dynamically regulated by increasing the fraction.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Maytee Chinavanichkit, Andy Purnama Prapanca, Duy Hoang Nguyen
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Patent number: 11669572Abstract: A data operations system receives compressed data and a search term. The data operations system completes a modified decoding of the compressed data, resulting in distinguishable data terms that are smaller than the corresponding data terms, and loads modified decoded terms into a data register. The data operations system generates a truncated search term and loads instances of the truncated search term into a query register. The data operations system performs a parallel data operation, such as a query operation, by comparing each of the modified decoded terms to an instance of the truncated search term. The data operations system returns the results of the operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventor: Scott S. McCoy
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Patent number: 11636507Abstract: A control system determines whether a browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network using a tracking indicator. Based on determining that browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser. The control system may modify responses by declining to bid, responding with a lower bid amount, or responding with alternate supplemental content. Based on determining that browser is no longer retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser by responding with a higher bid amount or responding with the original supplemental content. Thus, the control system maximizes the use of control system and campaign manager resources by responding to opportunities according to the likelihood that they will result in an impression or a conversion.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventor: Gurel Erceis
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Patent number: 11637877Abstract: A videoconferencing system receives audio and/or video signals (“AV”), information, and control signals from meeting participants. The videoconferencing system processes and routes the received AV and information, based on the received control signals, to provide AV and information to meeting participants. The videoconferencing system enables participants to to know details about breakout room (e.g., what breakout rooms are available, how many people are attending each breakout room, who is attending each breakout room, the topics of the breakout rooms), hear audio, see video, and receive information corresponding breakout rooms that they have not joined, join a breakout room, leave a breakout room, create breakout rooms, invite other participants to join a breakout room, and make a breakout room private.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Sean Zhu, Sahan Peiris
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Patent number: 11599707Abstract: A tag manager system provides access to a domain in a container in the tag manager system. A tag user navigates to an element in the domain (such as site pages, text elements, graphic elements, or video elements) and selects the element to validate its tag code from within the container. Based on results of the validation, the tag manager system updates the tag code corresponding to the element.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventor: Somer Simpson
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Patent number: 11574338Abstract: Adaptive control of exposure. A proportional exposure cap is a maximum fraction applicable to a recipient's total viewable attention in a time window. The total viewable attention represents all viewable advertising content which will be provided to the recipient. A notification of availability of an opportunity to expose a specified recipient to advertising content is received during the time window. The specified recipient's consumed viewable attention is detected. The specified recipient's total viewable attention for the time window is predicted. Responsive to the maximum fraction of the specified recipient's predicted total viewable attention for the time window being greater than the consumed viewable attention of the specified recipient, content is sent to the specified recipient and the consumed viewable attention is updated.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Seph Zdarko, Ryan Lei Hin Chan, David Alexander Grant
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Patent number: 11562392Abstract: Online advertising campaigns are operated responsive to keyword trends. The keywords used by a group of browsers is analyzed periodically over time. A list of the most frequently used keywords is separated into those that have previously appeared on the list, referred to herein as the stable keywords, and those that are newly emerging, referred to herein as the trending keywords. The advertiser selects at least one advertising creative that the advertiser associates with the stable keywords, referred to herein as the stable creative, and at least one advertising creative that the advertiser associates with the trending keywords, referred to herein as the trendy creative. The advertising system then operates the online advertising campaign to deliver the respective stable and trendy creatives in proportion to the frequency of use of the trending versus the stable keywords.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Julie L. Heiser, Vera M. K. Dadok
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Patent number: 11514479Abstract: An adaptive bidding system for networked advertising. A bid request is received from an exchange over a network. Each bid request represents the opportunity to bid on an advertising opportunity. A processing time limit is determined based at least in part on a network latency measurement and an exchange reported timeout. The execution of one or more tasks is initiated by the adaptive bidding system. A response is determined from one or more results which are available before the processing time limit expires. The execution of any tasks that have not completed execution before the processing time limit expires are terminated. The response is provided to the exchange.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventors: Crispin Edward Harold Flowerday, Faraaz Aejaz Sareshwala, Damian John Reeves
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Patent number: 11507604Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system for automated persona feature selection. Soft clusters of entities are received, each entity having a history of features. Each feature has a general prevalence coefficient representing prevalence of entities having the respective feature in their history. A feature list is generated for each cluster, each feature having an in-cluster coefficient representing prevalence of entities in the cluster having the feature in their history. Features having an in-cluster coefficient that is different from that feature's general prevalence coefficient are selected. A variance across the clusters is determined for each selected feature. A discriminating feature list having high variance features is generated for each cluster. Clusters are selected for an entity by comparing the features of the entity's history to features of the discriminating feature lists of the clusters. Content is customized according to the chosen clusters and sent to the entity.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Quantcast CorporationInventor: William Kennedy Browne
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Publication number: 20220358536Abstract: A control system determines whether a browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network using a tracking indicator. Based on determining that browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser. The control system may modify responses by declining to bid, responding with a lower bid amount, or responding with alternate supplemental content. Based on determining that browser is no longer retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser by responding with a higher bid amount or responding with the original supplemental content. Thus, the control system maximizes the use of control system and campaign manager resources by responding to opportunities according to the likelihood that they will result in an impression or a conversion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: Quantcast CorporationInventor: Gurel Erceis