Patents Assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC
  • Patent number: 11303726
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to a method and system for reducing request traffic directed to a server. Upon receiving a request associated with an application in a time-window, an identifier that is to be associated with the request is generated. A first criterion associated with the request is evaluated based on the identifier, and the request is transmitted to a server based on a second criterion related to the time-window and the first criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Markandey Singh, Prabhakar Kasi, Suchith Chandran
  • Patent number: 11302048
    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 that automatically generates and recommends Internet memes for inclusion within electronically communicated messages. As a user is drafting a message, the input text of the drafted message is analyzed and a set of Internet (or visual) memes are compiled and presented to the user within the drafting interface. Upon selection of at least one of the memes, the message is modified by automatically removing the text from the message and replacing the now removed text with the selected meme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Ariel Raviv, Ran Wolff
  • Patent number: 11301923
    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: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Marcel Becker, Anand Almal
  • Patent number: 11294873
    Abstract: One or more systems and/or methods of generating a query-goal-mission structure for a set of queries are provided. A set of queries may be evaluated to identify query information for the queries within the set of queries. The queries may be evaluated as query pairs to determine common goal probabilities (e.g., likelihood two queries correspond to a particular goal, such as to identify vacation planning information) for the query pairs. Responsive to the common goal probabilities for the query pairs exceeding a goal probability threshold, the query pairs may be grouped into goal clusters. The goal clusters may be evaluated as goal cluster pairs to determine common mission probabilities. Responsive to the common mission probabilities for the goal cluster pairs exceeding a mission probability threshold, the goal clusters may be grouped into mission clusters. The mission clusters and the goal clusters may be utilized to generate a query-goal-mission structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Xing Yi, Zhen Yue, Alyssa Glass Owara, Shuguang Han
  • Patent number: 11294887
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising completing a first audit for a primary event type, the first audit generating a set of primary events and completing a second audit for a secondary event type, the second audit generating a draft set of secondary events and an auxiliary feed of un-joined secondary events. The method then performs a join audit check on the auxiliary feed of un-joined secondary events and a set of flags, each flag in the set of flags indicating that a respective un-joined secondary event was properly joined. Based on the results of the join audit check, the method replays a subset of the un-joined secondary events in the auxiliary feed upon determining that the join audit check failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Michael Pippin, David Willcox, Allie K. Watfa, George Aleksandrovich, Jacob Tolar
  • Patent number: 11290775
    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 detecting and rendering highlights from streaming videos in real-time. As a streaming video is being broadcast over the Internet, the disclosed systems and methods determine each type of scene from the streaming video, and automatically score highlight scenes. The scored highlight scenes are then communicated to users as compiled video segments, which can be over any type of channel or platform accessible to a user's device and network that enables content rendering and user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Yale Song, Jordi Vallmitjana
  • Patent number: 11281725
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, 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 automatically generate and provide an interactive rich set of personalized query suggestions within a unified framework. The disclosed systems and methods are able to integrate attributes associated with message data and metadata by transforming such attributes into facets that are combined with term suggestions and presented to the user in a unified manner. The instant disclosure provides an interactive search suggestion mechanism that narrows the search as the user interacts with the dynamically generated and provided suggestions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, David Carmel, Ariel Raviv, Alexander Libov, Yoelle Maarek, Peter Monaco
  • Patent number: 11275747
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a search system supported by or configured with search servers or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of results data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide a Deep Fast Search (DFS) that improves content search accuracy that executes independent of the search database, while achieving an increased content retrieval speed. The disclosed systems and methods employ two complementary deep feature searches: 1) a coarse deep feature search and a 2) fine deep feature search. Thus, the disclosed systems and methods employ a coarse-to-fine strategy that embodies the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the coarse deep feature search and the accuracy of the fine deep feature search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Jenhao Hsiao, Jia Li
  • Patent number: 11265271
    Abstract: An electronic message composition support system, method and architecture including machine learning and natural language processing techniques for extending message composition capability and support and to provide feedback to a user regarding an error, condition, etc., detected in the user's message before the user sends the message, e.g., while the user is composing the message using a messaging application's user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Edo Liberty, Liangliang Cao, Meizhu Liu, Ellie Pavlick, Gilad Tsur, Yoelle Maarek
  • Patent number: 11263664
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, 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 transform user search keywords into equivalent keyword formats commonly used and/or found within messaging platforms, and compile a data set from such information from which a search for content can be based. The present disclosure, therefore, provides systems and methods that augment users' search terms with terms found in users' mailboxes for purposes of searching for, identifying and communicating content that is relevant to those users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Varun Bhagwan, Blake Carpenter, Mihajlo Grbovic, Doug Sharp, Vladan Radosavljevic, Nemanja Djuric
  • Patent number: 11256739
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to using image data and contextual data to determine information about a scene, based on one or more previously obtained images. Contextual data, such location of image capture, can be used to determine previously obtained images related to the contextual data and other location-related information, such as billboard locations. With even low resolution devices, such as cell phone, image attributes, such as a histogram or optically recognized characters, can be compared between the previously obtained images and the newly captured image. Attributes matching within a predefined threshold indicated matching images. Information on the content of matching previously obtained images can be provided back to a user who captured the new image. User profile data can refine the content information. The content information can also be used as search terms for additional searching or other processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Arun Ramanujapuram, Malcolm Slaney