Patents Assigned to Yahoo!
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Patent number: 11308137Abstract: As provided herein, a list of locales of interest in a location may be sorted into one or more categories. A user performing a search for a locale of interest (e.g., a restaurant) may be identified. A local score may be assigned to the locale of interest based upon a number of local users (e.g., users residing in the location) that perform the search. A second user may be determined to be near the locale of interest. A category of interest may be determined for the second user (e.g., an interest in local non-tourist restaurants). Responsive to the category of interest corresponding to the category and the local score of the locale of interest exceeding an interest threshold, the second user may be provided with a recommendation to go to the locale of interest. The locale of interest may be a local favorite restaurant rather than a tourist trap.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Christopher Chan, Yu-Chin Tai, Sameer Vasant Shah, Jeehaeng Lee, Kuo-Hsien Hsu, Katrina Kimball Clark Tempero, Xingjian Zhang
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Patent number: 11308141Abstract: Technologies for template generation using directed acyclic word graphs (DAWGs). The technologies can include receiving a first plurality of titles from a first plurality of title feeds, and sorting the first plurality of titles into a plurality of category sets. And, for each category set of the plurality of category sets, the technologies can include transforming the respective titles belonging to the category set into a trie data structure by separating words in the respective titles into nodes of the trie data structure. For each category set, the technologies can also include transforming the trie data structure into a directed acyclic word graph (DAWG) data structure. Also, for each category set, the technologies can also include generating one or more unique templates based on the DAWG data structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Srinath Ravindran, Mahmoudreza Abasi, Narayan Bhamidipati
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Patent number: 11308063Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for converting a data structure into an array are provided herein. Nodes of a data structure, such as a tree structure, are recursively processed to convert the data structure into an array. When processing a numerical node that is a parent of a low child node and a high child node, the numerical node of the tree structure is inserted into a first array element. The low child node is inserted into a second array element next to the first array element. The high child node is inserted into a third array element next to the second array element. A reference to the high child node is stored in association with the numerical node.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Attila Arpad Sahi, An Jiang, Raj Amrit, Dipankar Biswas
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Patent number: 11301923Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Marcel Becker, Anand Almal
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Patent number: 11303726Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Markandey Singh, Prabhakar Kasi, Suchith Chandran
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Patent number: 11302048Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Ariel Raviv, Ran Wolff
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Patent number: 11294887Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Michael Pippin, David Willcox, Allie K. Watfa, George Aleksandrovich, Jacob Tolar
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Patent number: 11294873Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Xing Yi, Zhen Yue, Alyssa Glass Owara, Shuguang Han
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Patent number: 11290775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Yale Song, Jordi Vallmitjana
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Patent number: 11281725Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, David Carmel, Ariel Raviv, Alexander Libov, Yoelle Maarek, Peter Monaco
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Patent number: 11282104Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a provision device includes a generation unit that generates a distributed representation of each context on the basis of a relative connection that multiple contexts have. The provision device includes a provision unit that provides information representing a change between a distributed representation of a given context that is generated before distribution information about the given context is distributed and a distributed representation of the given context that is generated after the distribution information is distributed.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Miyasaka, Masatsugu Shidachi, Akira Tajima
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Patent number: 11275747Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Jenhao Hsiao, Jia Li
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Patent number: 11263664Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Varun Bhagwan, Blake Carpenter, Mihajlo Grbovic, Doug Sharp, Vladan Radosavljevic, Nemanja Djuric
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Patent number: 11265271Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Edo Liberty, Liangliang Cao, Meizhu Liu, Ellie Pavlick, Gilad Tsur, Yoelle Maarek
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Patent number: 11256739Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Arun Ramanujapuram, Malcolm Slaney
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Patent number: 11238576Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit that acquires first image data in which an observation value observed at a time t is used as a pixel value and a learning processing unit that generates second image data in which an observation value predicted to be observed at a time t+n after the time t is used as a pixel value from the first image data acquired by the acquiring unit based on a learning model obtained by machine learning using the first image data, in which the machine learning occurs based on a comparison of the first image data in which an observation value observed at a target time is used as a pixel value and the second image data in which an observation value predicted to be observed at the target time is used as a pixel value.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Yuma Miki, Yukihiro Tagami
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Patent number: 11165566Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium includes instructions that cause a computer to execute a process that includes receiving, from a server of a second provider that provides a service for supporting a delivery of a content performed by a first provider, encrypted information along with the content. The first provider encrypts information on the service to obtain the encrypted information. The process also includes attempting decoding the encrypted information, which is received in the receiving, by using a decoding key that is provided by the first provider and determining reliability of the service based on a decoded result in the decoding.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuki Nakayama
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Patent number: 11153292Abstract: An authentication apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, a second specifying unit, and an authentication unit. The acquiring unit acquires context information on a target user who becomes a target for authentication. The first specifying unit specifies a belonging cluster based on information related to a plurality of cluster groups and the context information on the target user, in each of the plurality of the cluster groups. The second specifying unit specifies, for each belonging cluster based on a classification model used to specify a predetermined candidate user in the belonging cluster specified by the first specifying unit, a candidate user, in a partial candidate user group that belongs to the belonging cluster, who satisfies a predetermined condition. The authentication unit authenticates the target user based on information related to the candidate user specified by the second specifying unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Kota Tsubouchi, Shuuji Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11132999Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes an extraction unit and a subsequent stage generation unit. The extraction unit extracts a last conversation of a feedback utterance estimated to indicate a predetermined reaction of a second utterance subject relative to an utterance made by a first utterance subject, from a set of a plurality of conversations, based on a score assigned to the feedback utterance. The subsequent stage generation unit generates a subsequent stage classifier for deriving an index indicating a category of an unknown conversation, based on the last conversation extracted by the extraction unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Chikara Hashimoto, Manabu Sassano
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Patent number: 11120819Abstract: A voice extraction device according to the present invention includes a formation unit, an acquisition unit, an emphasis unit, a generation unit, and a selection unit. The formation unit forms directivity through beam-forming processing for each microphone in a microphone array including a plurality of microphones that form a plurality of channels. The acquisition unit acquires an observation signal that is a signal of voice received by each of the channels. The emphasis unit generates an emphasized signal by emphasizing the observation signal in accordance with the directivity formed by the formation unit. The generation unit generates, for each channel, frequency distribution of amplitude of the emphasized signal generated by the emphasis unit. The selection unit selects a channel corresponding to a voice signal used for voice recognition from among the channels based on the frequency distribution corresponding to the respective channels generated by the generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventor: Motoi Omachi