Patents Assigned to Toluna
  • Patent number: 10659543
    Abstract: Described in detail herein is a usage tracking system. In exemplary embodiments, an usage application executed on a device can transmit a request to a computing system for connecting the device to the Internet. The computing system can include a first server and a second server. The computing system can receive the request for connecting the device to the Internet from the application. The first server can initiate a connection of the device with the Internet. The first server can allocate a range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the at least one device based on a set of selected digital services being executed on the at least one device. Each IP address of the range of IP addresses corresponds to a digital service of selected set of digital services executed on the at least one device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Toluna Israel Limited
    Inventors: Roi Saltzman, Frank Smadja, Ido Azran, Yizhaq Ben Yosef
  • Patent number: 10567491
    Abstract: Systems and methods for avoiding network congestion on a web-based survey system are provided using dynamic profiling of users and transmitting the most valuable survey. The system can receive information associated with a user and a number of surveys requested. The system can prompt the user to respond to the first set of routable questions. The system queries a router for a set of surveys with open sub quotas based on the information associated with the user and the answers to the first set of routable questions. The set of surveys are inserted into a list of surveys. Each survey in the list of surveys is assigned a score based on the priority of the survey, the difficulty of the survey and the urgency of the survey and sorted. The system can transmit at least one survey from the list of surveys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Toluna Israel
    Inventors: Frank Smadja, Jerome Labbe, Nitin Patel
  • Publication number: 20190104186
    Abstract: Described in detail herein is a usage tracking system. In exemplary embodiments, an usage application executed on a device can transmit a request to a computing system for connecting the device to the Internet. The computing system can include a first server and a second server. The computing system can receive the request for connecting the device to the Internet from the application. The first server can initiate a connection of the device with the Internet. The first server can allocate a range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the at least one device based on a set of selected digital services being executed on the at least one device. Each IP address of the range of IP addresses corresponds to a digital service of selected set of digital services executed on the at least one device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: Toluna Israel
    Inventors: Roi Saltzman, Frank Smadja, Ido Azran, Yizhaq Ben Yosef
  • Publication number: 20180041569
    Abstract: Systems and methods for avoiding network congestion on a web-based survey system are provided using dynamic profiling of users and transmitting the most valuable survey. The system can receive information associated with a user and a number of surveys requested. The system can prompt the user to respond to the first set of routable questions. The system queries a router for a set of surveys with open sub quotas based on the information associated with the user and the answers to the first set of routable questions. The set of surveys are inserted into a list of surveys. Each survey in the list of surveys is assigned a score based on the priority of the survey, the difficulty of the survey and the urgency of the survey and sorted. The system can transmit at least one survey from the list of surveys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Toluna Israel
    Inventors: Frank Smadja, Jerome Labbe, Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 8909587
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for estimating the completion time of a web-based survey. The estimated completion time can be determined based on survey parameters associated with the web-based survey. The survey parameters can be based on characteristic values of the web-based survey associated with the survey parameters. The characteristic values of survey parameters can be used to estimate parameter completion times, from which an estimated survey completion time for the web-based survey may be determined. The disclosed systems and methods further permit assessments of survey feasibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Toluna USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Royi Alush, Dvir Babila, Shimon Golan, Frank Smadja, Tomer Weingarten
  • Patent number: 8843428
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to prioritizing web-based survey based on a priority score associated with the survey. The priority score can be determined based on priority values that are determined for priority parameters associated with the survey. The priority values can be determined for priority parameters based on characteristic values of the web-based survey that are associated with the priority parameters. The priority score can establish a priority of the web-based survey relative to other web-based surveys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Toluna USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shimon Golan, Frank Smadja
  • Publication number: 20130230841
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to respondent selection approaches for surveys, such as online surveys. The respondent selection approaches can be provide a selection process that is source independent to select individual respondents based on characteristics of the individual respondents, rather than based on characteristics of the source (e.g., group) with which the respondent is associated. Exemplary embodiments can advantageously use an estimate of a propensity score to select respondents for a survey before the survey is conducted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: TOLUNA USA, INC.
    Inventors: John F. Bremer, George Terhanian
  • Publication number: 20130185122
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to determining an availability of an actual good and/or service based on activity of or with respect to a virtual icon on one or more webpages. The virtual icon can represent the actual good and/or service. The activity of or with respect to the virtual icon on the webpage(s) can be monitored and a determination of whether a conversion criteria has been satisfied can be made based on the monitored activity. The availability of the actual good or service can be based on satisfaction of the conversion criteria. In an alternative exemplary embodiment, a method of determining an availability of an actual good and/or service is provided based on a value of or with respect to a virtual icon on one or more webpages. The value of or with respect to the virtual icon on the webpage(s) can be compared to a value criteria to determine whether a value criteria has been satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: TOLUNA USA, INC.
    Inventors: Frank Smadja, Royi Alush, Dvir Babila, Shimon Golan, Frederic Charles Petit, Tomer Weingarten
  • Publication number: 20130132328
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for estimating the completion time of a web-based survey. The estimated completion time can be determined based on survey parameters associated with the web-based survey. The survey parameters can be based on characteristic values of the web-based survey associated with the survey parameters. The characteristic values of survey parameters can be used to estimate parameter completion times, from which an estimated survey completion time for the web-based survey may be determined. The disclosed systems and methods further permit assessments of survey feasibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: TOLUNA USA, INC.
    Inventors: Royi Alush, Dvir Babila, Shimon Golan, Frank Smadja, Tomer Weingarten
  • Publication number: 20130073502
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to prioritizing web-based survey based on a priority score associated with the survey. The priority score can be determined based on priority values that are determined for priority parameters associated with the survey. The priority values can be determined for priority parameters based on characteristic values of the web-based survey that are associated with the priority parameters. The priority score can establish a priority of the web-based survey relative to other web-based surveys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: TOLUNA USA, INC.
    Inventors: Shimon Golan, Frank Smadja
  • Publication number: 20130066681
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to generating temporal indicators with respect to web-based survey responses. Exemplary embodiments identify quantity information and temporal information associated with responses to a web-based survey. The temporal indicator is generated based on the quantity information and the temporal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: TOLUNA USA, INC.
    Inventors: Dvir Babila, Gary Benattar, Shimon Golan, Royi Alush, Tomer Weingarten, Frank Smadja
  • Publication number: 20120136696
    Abstract: The method according to the invention consists of dynamically adapting survey questionnaires to the content of the affiliated Web sites of editors and the specific visitors of said sites. It comprises the dynamic selection of the most appropriate questionnaire for a given survey in function of the content of the site of the editor and/or the specific who visits the Web site of the editor and/or the response rate to the questionnaire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: TOLUNA
    Inventors: Frank Smadja, Frédéric-Charles Petit
  • Publication number: 20100138260
    Abstract: A method for optimizing the operation of a system for distributing at least one poll over the Internet, includes successive steps for: classifying and/or grouping publishers according to one or more data items relating to a particular website; classifying each poll according to the distance from each group of publishers; and determining pairs [poll, site] by applying an algorithm of the k nearest neighbours type (KNN); and making a classification of each pair [poll, site] according to the click-through rate on the site of the pair, such a classification being known as the popularity rank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: TOLUNA
    Inventor: Frank SMADJA
  • Publication number: 20090187470
    Abstract: The method according to the invention involves a plurality of Web sites each belonging to an editor and on which survey questionnaires may be displayed that are accessible to users distributed by means of a survey network, on the initiative of a plurality of advertisers who wish to carry out market surveys. It comprises the issuing by the advertiser of a survey questionnaire, the answer by the user to this questionnaire, a step where the advertiser asks the user additional questions, the qualification of the user based on the answers made to the additional questions and the provision to the user of a targeted content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Toluna
    Inventors: Frank SMADJA, Frederic Charles PETIT
  • Publication number: 20090187469
    Abstract: The method according to the invention consists of dynamically adapting survey questionnaires to the content of the affiliated Web sites of editors and the specific visitors of said sites. It comprises the dynamic selection of the most appropriate questionnaire for a given survey in function of the content of the site of the editor and/or the specific who visits the Web site of the editor and/or the response rate to the questionnaire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Toluna
    Inventors: Frank SMADJA, Frederic-Charles Petit