Patents Assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC
  • Patent number: 11610255
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatically allowing web browsing in a user interface of an electronic messaging system. The disclosed systems and methods automatically display electronic messages containing item information displayed in an electronic message in place of any web page links associated with the item enabling browsing of the item information from within the electronic messaging system's user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Marcel Becker, Anand Almal
  • Patent number: 11606326
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's inbox to detect message specific information corresponding to types of content in the message and the location of such content in the messages. The message specific information is then applied to other newly received or identified messages to learn message specific information about those messages. Based on such learning, information can be extracted from such messages in order to increase a user's experience and increase monetization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Doug Sharp, Varun Bhagwan, Yoelle Maarek
  • Patent number: 11599571
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for using features of images representing content items to improve the presentation of the content items are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of digital images are obtained, where each of the images represents a corresponding one of a plurality of content items Image features of each of the digital images are determined. Additional features including at least one of user features pertaining to a user of a client device or contextual features pertaining to the client device are ascertained. At least a portion of the content items are provided via a network to the client device using features that include or are derived from both the image features of each of the plurality of digital images and the additional features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Nadav Golbandi, Uri Schonfeld
  • Patent number: 11595329
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for providing users with electronic retrieval capabilities that are activated upon the users' determined locations respective to real-world locations associated with a message providing entity. The disclosed technology combines the previously separate systems of mail extraction, geo-fencing and content delivery (e.g., notification) into a single system that efficiently manages a user's inbox in order to provide the user with content the user has expressly indicated is of interest to that user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Selena Shang, Anand Tolani, Danny Espinoza, Nandaja Ananthanarayanan, Venugopal Kemthur, Joshua Robert Russell Jacobson
  • Patent number: 11593703
    Abstract: At least one label prediction model is trained, or learned, using training data that may comprise training instances that may be missing one or more labels. The at least one label prediction model may be used in identifying a content item's ground-truth label set comprising an indicator for each label in the label set indicating whether or not the label is applicable to the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Jia Li, Yi Chang, Xiangnan Kong
  • Patent number: 11587143
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods utilizing neural contextual bandit for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to make item recommendations using latent relations and latent representations, which can improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods use neural network modeling in automatic selection of a number of items for recommendation to a user and using feedback in connection with the recommendation for further training of the model(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Suleyman Cetintas, Xian Wu, Jian Yang
  • Patent number: 11580168
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to providing a query suggestion. In one example, a request is received for query suggestions with respect to a query prefix input by a user. A plurality of query suggestions is determined based on the query prefix and a preceding query input by the user. A degree of popularity of the preceding query is determined. One or more query suggestions are selected from the plurality of query suggestions based on the degree of popularity of the preceding query. The one or more query suggestions are provided as a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Amit Goyal, Hongbo Deng
  • Patent number: 11580325
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for hyper parameter optimization for machine learning ensemble generation are provided. For example, one or more base models are trained using diverse sets of hyper parameters, wherein different sets of hyper parameters (e.g., hyper parameters with different values) are used to train different base models. A matrix, populated with predictions from the set of base models, is generated. A machine learning ensemble is generated by processing the matrix utilizing a meta learner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Andrew Perkins
  • Patent number: 11574024
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for providing content. A plurality of content items and publication information related thereto are obtained. For each of the plurality of content items, one or more topics are determined in accordance with a model. The related publication information associated with each content item is analyzed to identify at least one source of a plurality of sources that published the content item. A distribution is generated of each of the plurality of content items with respect to the plurality of sources and the one or more topics of the content item, and a bias of a source with respect to publishing content is identified based on the distributions of the plurality of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Dan Pelleg, Avihai Mejer, Ali Tabaja
  • Patent number: 11574331
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a user of a client device may selectively share personal data with web companies. The personal data may be shared directly via transmission by the client device to the web companies. Alternatively, the personal data may be shared with the web companies via a personal data sharing system that collects and maintains personal data associated with users. The personal data sharing system may reward the user for sharing their personal data with the web companies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Richard Allinson, Annamalai Muruganathan, Matthew Jones
  • Patent number: 11575632
    Abstract: Software for online active learning receives content posted to an online stream at a website. The software converts the content into an elemental representation and inputs the elemental representation into a probit model to obtain a predictive probability that the content is abusive. The software also calculates an importance weight based on the elemental representation. And the software updates the probit model using the content, the importance weight, and an acquired label if a condition is met. The condition depends on an instrumental distribution. The software removes the content from the online stream if a condition is met. The condition depends on the predictive probability, if an acquired label is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Wei Chu, Martin Zinkevich, Lihong Li, Achint Oommen Thomas, Belle Tseng
  • Patent number: 11575762
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selecting messages for transmission to client devices are provided. A first message associated with a first entity may be received from a first client device. The first message may comprise information associated with the first entity. A user account database, comprising a plurality of user profiles, may be analyzed based upon the first message to select a set of user accounts, from a plurality of user accounts, for transmission of a set of messages associated with the first message. The plurality of user accounts may be subscribed to an information service. Each user profile of the plurality of user profiles may comprise information corresponding to a user account of the plurality of user account. The set of messages may be transmitted to the set of user accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma, Gnanavel Shanmugam
  • Patent number: 11574029
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving web-based document retrieval and object manipulation. In an implementation, objects within web documents (e.g., a web page) are manipulated when the objects are visible through a viewport of a user's web browser. According to a method, an object selected from a web document is manipulated when that selected object is displayed within the viewport of the user's browser. The manipulation may include downloading content associated with the stored object and additionally, or alternatively, executing a script associated with the stored object. Additionally, or independently, methods may be provided for blocking the download of an object in a retrieved web document until that object is displayed or visible in the user's browser viewport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventor: David Ryan Artz
  • Patent number: 11567813
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Event information associated with a plurality of events may be identified. The plurality of events may be associated with first entities corresponding to a first entity type and second entities associated with a second entity type. A first network profile associated with the first entities and the second entities may be generated based upon the event information. An iterative process may be performed to identify a coalition network associated with fraudulent activity. The iterative process may include analyzing the first network profile to identify a first set of entities, of the first entities, that are related to an entity of the second entities, and/or analyzing the first network profile to identify a second set of entities, of the second entities, that are related to the first set of entities. Multiple iterations may be performed to identify the coalition network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Ruichen Wang, Timothy Michael Olson, Yan Han, Jian Tian, Robert Jason Harris, Shaima Abdul Majeed
  • Patent number: 11567982
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to processing and organizing electronic content. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises receiving source data from at least one content server, the source data being associated with electronic content. The method also includes generating local data based on at least one of an analysis of the received source data or an extraction from the received source data. Additionally, the method includes classifying the electronic content as being associated with one or more content stacks. Further, the method includes generating representations of the electronic content based on the local data and generating instructions to display at least one content stack on a user interface, each displayed contact stack being operable to display one or more of the representations of the electronic content associated with the content stack based on the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: William Wetherell, Joshua S. Ramirez, Marc A. Katchay, Gabriela Meirelles Moore, David Louie, Douglas Hamman, Brian Behnke, Kiersten L. Lammerding
  • Patent number: 11562586
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for generating search result data based on machine-encoded text generated by computer vision optical character recognition machine learning techniques performed on digital media. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing machine learning visual search or machine learning text extraction techniques on digital media in order to extract and analyze the data therein and further conduct search queries based on the extracted and analyzed data. The disclosed framework may leverage the aforementioned computer vision machine learning techniques in order to provide a user with relevant search results regarding objects and text detect in digital media captured on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Balakrishnan, Xiaoyu Guo
  • Patent number: 11556814
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content recommendation based upon continuity and grouping information of attributes are provided herein. User interaction data specifying whether users interacted with content items, user attributes of the users, and content attributes of the content items is obtained. A data structure is populated with the user interaction data. The data structure is modified by inserting a set of sub-fields into the data structure for a user attribute. A sub-field is populated with a value representing an option of the user attribute. The set of sub-fields are an encoding of continuity information and grouping information representing options for the user attribute. The data structure is processed using machine learning functionality to generate a model. The model is utilized to generate a prediction as to whether a user will interact with a content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Shtof, Yair Koren, Yohay Kaplan
  • Patent number: 11558446
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, at a stream processor, an event, the stream processor including a plurality of processing stages; generating, by the stream processor, an augmented event based on the event, the augmented event including at least one additional field not appearing in the event, the additional field generated by an operation selected from the group consisting of a join or dimensional annotation operation; and emitting, by the stream processor, the augmented event to downstream consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Michael Pippin, David Willcox, Allie K. Watfa, George Aleksandrovich
  • Patent number: 11556822
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for cross-domain action prediction are provided. Action sequence embeddings are generated based upon a textual embedding and a graph embedding utilizing past user action sequences corresponding to sequences of past actions performed by users across a plurality of domains. An autoencoder is trained to utilize the action sequence embeddings to project the action sequence embeddings to obtain intent space vectors. A service switch classifier is trained using the intent space vectors. In response to the service switch classifier predicting that a current user will switch from a current domain to a next domain, the current user is provided with a recommendation of an action corresponding to the next domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Su-Chen Lin, Zhungxun Liao, Jian-Chih Ou, Tzu-Chiang Liou
  • Patent number: 11558324
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to dynamically generating a card. In one example, a request is received for generating a card to be provided to a user. Dynamic information related to the request is obtained. One or more modules are selected to be put into the card based on the dynamic information. The card is generated based on the selected one or more modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventor: Abhay Gupta