Patents Assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
  • Patent number: 11381579
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining whether requests for content are fraudulent are provided. A request for content may be received from a first device. A first user profile associated with the first device may be identified. The first user profile may comprise activity information associated with the first device, demographic information associated with the first device and/or interest information associated with the first device. A user profile database may be analyzed to identify a set of user profiles similar to the first user profile. A relevance score associated with the request for content may be generated based upon the resource, the set of user profiles and/or the first user profile. The relevance score may be compared with a threshold relevance to determine whether the request for content is fraudulent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Chaula, Kavind Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 11379880
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for administering an online advertiser bidding interface. The method includes providing a bidding interface to an advertiser through a web server, by which an advertiser may bid on online advertising inventory of an online publisher, the bidding interface displaying a plurality of targeting elements; receiving targeting information from the advertiser through the targeting elements of the bidding interface and the web server; and generating an advertising bid based on the received targeting information. A system is also provided for administering an online advertiser bidding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: James Fellows, Brent Halliburton, Eric Bosco
  • Patent number: 11361341
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for traffic filtration by content providers. One method includes receiving a content request from a device of a user; determining whether one or more container tags are associated with requested content; determining, prior to responding to the content request, whether the content request is by a user based on the content request and the one or more container tags; generating, prior to responding to the content request, an ad request based on the content request and the one or more container tags; determining, prior to responding to the content request, an ad request recipient based on the generated ad request and the one or more container tags; transmitting the ad request to the determined ad request recipient; and transmitting, over the electronic network to the device, a response to the content request when the content request is determined to be by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventor: Seth Mitchell Demsey
  • Patent number: 11354706
    Abstract: A system for retargeting customers is based on a mobile device query initiated by a user, and includes a query module configured to receive a query with geographical information from the mobile device and determine geographical identifiers of the mobile device. An indexed database stores an aggregated plurality of customers having a geographical identifier proximate to the determined geographical area, and a processor selects an advertiser located proximate to the determined geographical area. A performance feedback module is configured to assign an effectiveness rating to one or more advertisements provided by the selected advertiser based on marketing attributes of the aggregated plurality of customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Wentong Li, Yi Mao
  • Patent number: 11341744
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Whitney Zoller
  • Patent number: 11334613
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A first plurality of sets of device information associated with a plurality of devices may be received and/or identified. The plurality of devices may be grouped into a plurality of groups based upon the first plurality of sets of device information. A plurality of group profiles associated with the plurality of groups may be generated. A first group profile of the plurality of group profiles may be associated with a first group of the plurality of groups. The first group profile may be generated based upon sets of device information, of the first plurality of sets of device information, associated with the first group. A request for content associated with a first device belonging to the first group may be received. A first content item may be selected for presentation via the first device based upon the first group profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Johannes Van Staden, Narayana Babu Maddhuri, Wendell Craig Baker
  • Patent number: 11334924
    Abstract: A system for generating an advertisement is provided. The system may receive an advertisement request from a client device and select an advertisement from a database in response to the advertisement request. The system may identify an advertiser web server associated with the advertisement, for example a landing page. The system may retrieve a picture from the advertiser web server and integrate the picture with the advertisement to generate an enhanced advertisement. The system may serve the enhanced advertisement to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Gerald Pesavento, Sachin Sudhakar Farfade, Venkat Kumar Reddy Barakam, Ramu Adapala, Sripathi Ramadurai, Pierre Garrigues
  • Patent number: 11328323
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a plurality of Internet-enabled devices with a common user profile for targeting Internet content or advertising. One method includes: receiving, from a plurality of Internet-enabled devices, a plurality of requests for electronic content or advertising; extracting, from each of the plurality of requests, a source IP address and a unique identifier associated with the respective Internet-enabled device; for each source IP address for which requests were received over a predetermined time period from a number of Internet-enabled devices below a threshold number of devices, identifying each possible pair of devices from which requests were received; and for each possible pair of devices, calculating a probability that the pair of devices are owned or operated by a common user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Miller, Simon D. Edwards, Alan J. Milford, Denys P. Kim, Bart W. R. Schelfhout
  • Patent number: 11322166
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and removing traceable identifying audio content from electronic media content. One method includes: receiving, over a network, media content to be broadcast or distributed, the media content including audio data; determining whether the audio data of the media content includes traceable identifying audio content defined by an audio identifier; generating new audio data based on the audio data of the media content when an audio identifier is determined to be include in the audio data; removing audio data from the media content when the audio identifier is determined to be include in the audio data; adding the new audio data to the media content when the audio data is removed from the media content; and broadcasting or distributing the media content having the new audio data to one or more user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Seth Mitchell Demsey, Jay Crystal
  • Patent number: 11308525
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for augmenting real-time bidding data with proprietary data. One method includes: receiving, at a server over an electronic communications network from a real-time impression bidder, a bid request or a request to augment a bid request with proprietary data; accessing, by the server from an internal database, proprietary data of a data augmenting service based on a user identifier of the bid request; determining, by the server, proprietary data to include in an augmented bid request based on at least one of the received bid request and the user identifier; formatting, by the server, the augmented bid request into a standardized, augmented bid request; and transmitting, by the server over the electronic communications network, the standardized, augmented bid request to the real-time impression bidder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Seth Mitchell Demsey, Matthew M. Patton
  • Patent number: 11310255
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying malicious traffic associated with a website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Donald J. McQueen