Patents Assigned to The New York Times Company
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Publication number: 20230169276Abstract: According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for clustering and answering questions is provided. The method includes obtaining an input from a user device, wherein the input comprises a text. The method includes transforming, using a first natural language processing model, the text into a first embedding vector representing a location in an embedding graph, wherein the embedding graph comprises a plurality of prior question embedding vectors representing respective locations in the embedding graph and each prior question embedding vector is associated with at least one answer text. The method includes selecting a set of one or more prior question embedding vectors based on a distance in the embedding graph between the location of the first embedding vector and the respective locations of the plurality of prior question embedding vectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANYInventor: John Buhler COOK
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Publication number: 20230169729Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein mitigate technological barriers in preparing, sourcing, and exporting 3D assets with practical applications for journalism. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for generating a three-dimensional map is provided. The method includes displaying a two-dimensional region of a map on a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the map is displayed along longitudinal axis and a latitudinal axis. The method includes obtaining, through the GUI, a first input from a user device, the first input comprising an indication of a selected sub-region of the two-dimensional region of the map, wherein the selected sub-region comprises a plurality of pixels having longitudinal coordinates bounded by a first longitude coordinate and a second longitude coordinate along the longitudinal axis and latitudinal coordinates bounded by a first latitude coordinate and a second latitude coordinate along the latitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANYInventors: Or FLEISHER, Sukanya ANEJA
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Patent number: 10621626Abstract: A system of generating advertising inventory by marketers sharing content with others via a social network or other electronic communication across a network. This embodiment may include allowing one or more content providers to provide links to content items. The content items may be provided directly by the content provider or by a clearinghouse entity or other intermediary. A subscriber may then search for relevant content items from one or more content providers. The subscriber may provide ancillary content for association with the selected content item. Thus, when the subscriber shares a URL identifying the selected content item via a social network, the URL may be encoded with a unique identifier identifying the subscriber. When the URL is clicked by a user, an ad server on the publisher's side may recognize the unique identifier and display the content item with the ancillary content provided by the subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Matthew T. Boggie, Amy E. Hyde, Guy Dassa, Bobby Roe
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Patent number: 9743230Abstract: A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving a message from a location-aware mobile device associated with a user, receiving content delivery information from the user, formulating a content package at least based on the content delivery information, and sending a content message associated with the content package to the location-aware mobile device via a network.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Michael Alan Young, Nick Bilton
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Publication number: 20160086234Abstract: A system of generating advertising inventory by marketers sharing content with others via a social network or other electronic communication across a network. This embodiment may include allowing one or more content providers to provide links to content items. The content items may be provided directly by the content provider or by a clearinghouse entity or other intermediary. A subscriber may then search for relevant content items from one or more content providers. The subscriber may provide ancillary content for association with the selected content item. Thus, when the subscriber shares a URL identifying the selected content item via a social network, the URL may be encoded with a unique identifier identifying the subscriber. When the URL is clicked by a user, an ad server on the publisher's side may recognize the unique identifier and display the content item with the ancillary content provided by the subscriber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Matthew T. BOGGIE, Amy E. HYDE, Guy DASSA, Bobby ROE
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Patent number: 9208517Abstract: A system and method of generating advertising inventory by marketers sharing content with others via a social network or other electronic communication across a network. This embodiment may include allowing one or more content providers, such as a publisher, to provide links to content items, such as articles, news stories, videos, etc. The content items may be provided directly by the content provider or by a clearinghouse entity or other intermediary. A subscriber, such as an advertiser or marketer, may then search for relevant content items from one or more content providers. The subscriber may provide ancillary content, such as an advertisement or other electronic content, for association with the selected content item. Thus, when the subscriber shares a URL identifying the selected content item, such as an article, via a social network, the URL may be encoded with a unique identifier identifying the subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Matthew T. Boggie, Amy E. Hyde, Guy Dassa, Bobby Roe
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Patent number: 9135576Abstract: A system for and method of generating and visualizing one or more sharing event cascade structures associated with one or more content sharing events that occur across a network may include generating a plurality of sharing event nodes in the one or more sharing event cascade structures based on data associated with at least one of a system log and a database, wherein each sharing event cascade structure graphically represents a history of one or more content items being shared among a plurality of users of the network, and presenting, on a display device, a content sharing visualization diagram that illustrates the one or more sharing event cascade structures and enables a user to analyze sharing patterns associated with the plurality of users of the network.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Mark H. Hansen, Jeremy Thorp
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Publication number: 20140308979Abstract: A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving a message from a location-aware mobile device associated with a user, receiving content delivery information from the user, formulating a content package at least based on the content delivery information, and sending a content message associated with the content package to the location-aware mobile device via a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Michael Alan YOUNG, Nick Bilton
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Patent number: 8812949Abstract: A system and method for automatically detecting and extracting semantically significant text from a HTML document associated with a plurality of HTML documents is disclosed. The method may include receiving a HTML document, parsing the HTML document into a parse tree, segmenting the parse tree into one or more segments of one or more unique paths, processing the one or more segments based at least the HTML document, and extracting one or more processed segments from the at least the HTML document based on a predetermined number.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventor: Evan Stapleton Sandhaus
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Patent number: 8769008Abstract: A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving a message from a location-aware mobile device associated with a user, receiving content delivery information from the user, formulating a content package at least based on the content delivery information, and sending a content message associated with the content package to the location-aware mobile device via a network.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Michael Alan Young, Nick Bilton
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Patent number: 8504416Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing and selling online advertising in which a single advertiser is guaranteed major advertising locations on each qualifying page viewed by a web site visitor during the viewer's entire web session. Advertisements from a single advertiser follow web site visitors through the web pages they select for viewing, allowing a consistent message to be displayed to a particular user over a period of time. Advantages include the ability to engage in linear storytelling and to obtain reach, duration, and impact of the advertising message on a par with or exceeding that obtainable from conventional advertising media such as television and print.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Craig V. Calder, Heather Keltz
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Publication number: 20130145272Abstract: An interactive interface of an embodiment of the present invention comprises a mirror surface; a sensor configured to receive an input from a user; a processor communicatively coupled to the sensor; the processor configured to identify a user identification based on the input, retrieve user specific content associated with the user identification; and identify one or more interactions with the user, wherein the processor comprises a speech processor and a video processor; and an output configured to display content associated with the user identification and responsive to the interactions on the mirror surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANYInventor: The New York Times Company
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Publication number: 20120323705Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing and selling online advertising in which a single advertiser is guaranteed major advertising locations on each qualifying page viewed by a web site visitor during the viewer's entire web session. Advertisements from a single advertiser follow web site visitors through the web pages they select for viewing, allowing a consistent message to be displayed to a particular user over a period of time. Advantages include the ability to engage in linear storytelling and to obtain reach, duration, and impact of the advertising message on a par with or exceeding that obtainable from conventional advertising media such as television and print.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: The New York Time CompanyInventors: Craig V. Calder, Heather Keltz
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Publication number: 20120260182Abstract: A system for and method of generating and visualizing one or more sharing event cascade structures associated with one or more content sharing events that occur across a network may include generating a plurality of sharing event nodes in the one or more sharing event cascade structures based on data associated with at least one of a system log and a database, wherein each sharing event cascade structure graphically represents a history of one or more content items being shared among a plurality of users of the network, and presenting, on a display device, a content sharing visualization diagram that illustrates the one or more sharing event cascade structures and enables a user to analyze sharing patterns associated with the plurality of users of the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Mark H. HANSEN, Jeremy Thorp
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Publication number: 20120254726Abstract: A system and method for automatically detecting and extracting semantically significant text from a HTML document associated with a plurality of HTML documents is disclosed. The method may include receiving a HTML document, parsing the HTML document into a parse tree, segmenting the parse tree into one or more segments of one or more unique paths, processing the one or more segments based at least the HTML document, and extracting one or more processed segments from the at least the HTML document based on a predetermined number.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: The New York Times CompanyInventor: Evan Stapleton Sandhaus
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Patent number: 8195508Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing and selling online advertising in which a single advertiser is guaranteed major advertising locations on each qualifying page viewed by a web site visitor during the viewer's entire web session. Advertisements from a single advertiser follow web site visitors through the web pages they select for viewing, allowing a consistent message to be displayed to a particular user over a period of time. Advantages include the ability to engage in linear storytelling and to obtain reach, duration, and impact of the advertising message on a par with or exceeding that obtainable from conventional advertising media such as television and print.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2003Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventors: Craig V. Calder, Heather Keltz
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Patent number: 8051372Abstract: A system and method for automatically detecting and extracting semantically significant text from a HTML document associated with a plurality of HTML documents is disclosed. The method may include receiving a HTML document, parsing the HTML document into a parse tree, segmenting the parse tree into one or more segments of one or more unique paths, processing the one or more segments based at least the HTML document, and extracting one or more processed segments from the at least the HTML document based on a predetermined number.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: The New York Times CompanyInventor: Evan Stapleton Sandhaus