Patents Assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC
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Patent number: 11409581Abstract: 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. First representations associated with the first entities and second representations associated with the second entities may be generated based upon the first network profile. Clusters in the first representations and/or the second representations may be identified. One or more coalition networks associated with fraudulent activity may be identified based upon the clusters.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Ruichen Wang, Timothy Michael Olson, Yan Han, Jian Tian, Robert Jason Harris, Shaima Abdul Majeed
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Patent number: 11409889Abstract: The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for encrypted searching. In a search session, a uniform resource locator (URL) is received, wherein a portion of the URL is encrypted via a first key. A second key associated with the first key is obtained. A determination is made regarding whether a time-related criterion associated with the second key is satisfied. In response to the time-related criterion being satisfied, the portion of the URL is decrypted based on the second key to obtain a keyword, one or more search results are obtained based on the keyword, and a webpage including the one or more search results to be provided to a user is generated.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Stephen Owens, Sonia Johnson, Ramu Adapala, Chris Elza Kurian
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Patent number: 11405475Abstract: Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. The identified interest(s) can be used to select content to be presented to the user. By way of a non-limiting example, information collected in response to the user clicking on a link in an electronic mail, email, message can be used to identify one or more content items to be presented to the user. By way of yet another non-limiting example, the identified content item(s) can comprise advertising content, news articles, etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Varun Bhagwan, Suhas Sadanandan, Doug Sharp
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Patent number: 11403351Abstract: Systems and methods for personalization using image clouds to represent content. Image clouds can be used to identify initial user interest, present recommended content, present popular content, present search results, and present user profile information. Image clouds are interactive, allowing users to select images displayed in the image cloud, which can contribute to presenting more personalized content as well as updating a user's profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Mike Macadaan, David J. Liu, William G. Wetherell, James D. Simmons, Sudhir Tonse, Arun K. Ranganathan
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Patent number: 11405627Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for video encoding are provided. For example, a video file may be segmented into at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be analyzed to determine that the first portion is associated with a first level of complexity, and the second portion may be analyzed to determine that the second portion is associated with a second level of complexity. A first bitrate associated with the first level of complexity may be determined, and a second bitrate associated with the second level of complexity may be determined. The first portion may be encoded at the first bitrate to generate a first encoded portion, and the second portion may be encoded at the second bitrate to generate a second encoded portion. The first encoded portion and the second encoded portion may be assembled to generate an optimized video file.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Jian Zhou, Congxia Dai, Heri Zhao, Zhonghua Ma, Xumin Wu, Michael Chang-Ping Chen, Sagar Dattatraya Bhandare
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Patent number: 11403352Abstract: One or more systems and/or methods for providing related content associated with a multi-touch gesture to a user are provided. A multi-touch gesture (e.g., a pinch-in gesture, a pinch-out gesture, etc.) may be received through a user interface of a client device (e.g., smartphone, tablet, television, virtual wall, etc.) associated with a user. The multi-touch gesture may be evaluated to identify an area of interest of the user interface (e.g., a portion of user interface containing content of interest to the user). The area of interest may be evaluated to identify context (e.g., keywords, phrases, associated content, etc.) associated with the area of interest. A search of content may be performed based upon the context to identify related content (e.g., news articles, wide-area network search results, local device search results, etc.) associated with the context. The related content may be provided to the user through the client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Jonathan Paris, Leili Baghaei Rad, Benoit Schillings, Yuhuan Tang
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Patent number: 11397782Abstract: The present teaching relates to providing interaction driven electronic social experience. In one example, a request is received, via the communication platform, for providing interaction driven electronic social experience to a user, with first information associated with a first content item that the user is accessing. Second information is obtained related to activity of the user with respect to the first content item. A portion of the first content item that the user is interested in is determined based on the second information. A second content item related to the portion of the first content item is obtained. The second content item is provided with third information indicating that the second content item is to be presented with respect to the portion of the first content item.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Junwei Jiang, Wei Li
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Patent number: 11397786Abstract: The present teaching relates to personalized content recommendation. A webpage is contrasted for a user having a plurality of slots each of which is to be allocated with a content item. For each of the plurality of slots, a plurality of content items in a plurality of types of content are accessed. For each of the plurality of types of content, a personalized score is predicted for each content item in the type of content, wherein the personalized score is obtained based on a trained model trained. A recommended content item of the type of content is selected based on personalized scores. An overall recommended content item is selected and allocated to a slot based on criteria associated with the personalized scores of the recommended content items and a business rule. The webpage with the plurality of slots allocated with content items is provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Rao Shen, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Donghyun Kim, Yufeng Ma, Yu Wang
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Patent number: 11398099Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Vinod Balakrishnan, Xiaoyu Guo
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Patent number: 11385954Abstract: Technologies for enhancing work scheduling of a big data framework. The technologies can include generating, in a database, configurable namespaces to be used by a work scheduling enhancement application to group together tasks of one or more big data clusters. The namespaces can be hierarchical. The technologies can also include linking in the database, by the application, related tasks with respective namespaces to categorize and group together the related tasks. The technologies can also include configuring, by the application, a display scheme for displaying error handling and root cause analysis of tasks of the one or more big data clusters. The technologies can also include generating or rendering, by the application, a GUI having a navigable hierarchal view for displaying the namespaces. The generation or rendering of the GUI can be based partially on the display scheme.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Edward Bortnikov, Dmitry Basin, Eran Meir
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Patent number: 11381535Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content communicating, displaying, 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 determine and display message content within a portion of a message inbox in a manner that is specific to the type message content. According to some embodiments, when a message is received in a message inbox of a user, the message content can be opened for display within a dedicated portion of the inbox, thereby enabling improved message content retrieval, access and navigation within a message platform or message application.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Utkarsh Shrivastava, Suhas Sadanandan, Kanika Shah, Kevin Day, Yaqi Hu
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Patent number: 11375030Abstract: One or more methods and/or techniques for providing a personalized future event notification to a user are provided herein. A content item (e.g., a news article, a social network post, etc.) may be evaluated utilizing a future event detection model to identify a future event (e.g., a festival). The future event detection model may have been trained to identify future events based upon part of speech analysis and entity recognition analysis of text within content items. In an example, the future event detection model may be used to identify locational features, temporal features, and/or entities from the content item. A user having a user interest in the future event above an interest threshold may be identified based upon user identifying information (e.g., a social network profile) being indicative of user interest in the future event. A personalized future event notification of the future event may be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Junwei Jiang, Wenliang Cui, Qian Wan
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Patent number: 11372870Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards automatically learning user behavioral patterns when interacting with messages and based on the learned patterns, suggesting one or more predicted actions that a user might take in response to receiving subsequent message. One or more classifiers are trained and employed to predict one or more actions that a user might take in response to receiving the message. In one embodiment, the one or more predicted actions are provided suggested to the user as an action the user might take on the message. Messages may be rank ordered within a given suggested action based on a confidence level of the prediction.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Ingmar Weber, Yoelle Maarek, Yehuda Arie Koren
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Patent number: 11372924Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a list of suggested queries associated with one or more keywords are provided. For example, one or more keywords may be received via a search interface. A plurality of queries associated with the one or more keywords may be determined based upon the one or more keywords and a historical query database. A plurality of relationship scores associated with the plurality of queries may be generated based upon a plurality of search sessions associated with the historical query database. The historical query database may be analyzed to determine a plurality of click rates associated with the plurality of queries. A list of suggested queries may be generated based upon the plurality of relationship scores and the plurality of click rates.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Su-Chen Lin, Jian-Chih Ou, Tzu-Chiang Liou, Wei-Lun Su
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Patent number: 11362979Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for displaying messaging interfaces based upon email conversations are provided. For example, an email conversation associated with a plurality of user accounts may be identified. Email activity associated with the plurality of user accounts may be monitored. Based upon the email activity, it may be detected that a second plurality of user accounts of the plurality of user accounts are concurrently in an active state. A first device, associated with a first user account of the second plurality of user accounts, may display a first messaging interface comprising a first representation of the email conversation. A second device, associated with a second user account of the second plurality of user accounts, may display a second messaging interface comprising a second representation of the email conversation.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma
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Patent number: 11361038Abstract: The present teaching relates to providing a recommendation for subscribing to or unsubscribing from an electronic communication. In one example, actions of a user are obtained with respect to electronic communications of the user. One or more categories of the electronic communications are determined. A state of the user is determined based on the actions and the one or more categories. The state is either a discovery state indicating that the user expresses an interest to receive electronic communications associated with a specific category or a cleaning state indicating that the user lacks an interest in one or more received electronic communications. A subscribe recommendation for subscribing to electronic communications associated with the specific category is provided when the state is determined to be a discovery state.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, Iftah Gamzu, Natalia Silberstein, Ian McCarthy, Oren Shlomo Somekh, Keren Baruch, Christopher Royer
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Patent number: 11361550Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content 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 creating a caption comprising a sequence of words in connection with digital content.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Simao Herdade, Armin Kappeler, Kofi Boakye, Joao Vitor Baldini Soares
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Patent number: 11361010Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a set of tips for an entity are provided. For example, users may create user generated content describing an entity, such as a user review for a consumer good, a location, an event, etc. Because a user may be unable to read and digest all of the user reviews for the entity, the user may merely read a few user reviews, and thus miss out on useful information. Accordingly, tip templates, indicative of how tips are linguistically/grammatically constructed, are applied to the user reviews to automatically extract a set of tips for the entity (e.g., “make sure to bring a rain jacket”). The set of tips may be filtered to remove undesirable tips, ranked based upon usefulness, and/or diversified to remove redundant tips. In this way, a set of useful tips may be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Dan Pelleg, Alexander Nus, Fiana Raiber, Ido Guy, Avihai Mejer
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Patent number: 11358060Abstract: In an aspect, fantasy sports data is analyzed to generate and/or manage the delivery of and user experience of fantasy sports games and contests, including timing and payout structure(s) for short-term fantasy contests, such as daily, weekly, etc. fantasy sports contests, that motivate and appeal to contestants and is/are reasonably structured and concisely represented. In yet another aspect, a daily fantasy contest system is provided to automatically adjust to user demand without overshooting profitable levels and offer a variety of different contests, as well as offer contests with guaranteed and non-guaranteed payouts.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Justin Thaler, Maxim Sviridenko, Edo Liberty, Prerit Uppal, Ron Belmarch, Jerry Shen
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Patent number: 11356401Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing a system with access to resources associated with a user account using a disposable email address (DEA) are provided. A request to provide a system with access to a first set of resources may be received. The first set of resources may be associated with a first email account associated with a first email address. A first DEA associated with the first email account may be generated. The first DEA may be transmitted to the system. A first set of modified emails may be generated based upon a first set of emails of the first email account. A first modified email of the first set of modified emails may comprise an indication of the first DEA. Access to the first set of modified emails may be provided to the system. The first DEA may be deactivated.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Gnanavel Shanmugam, Nitin Jose