Patents Assigned to Yahoo!
  • Patent number: 10318996
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to replace the advertisement displayed in the advertising space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takata, Nobuyuki Akashi, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Nari Woo, Akihiro Tanabe, Shinichiro Sega, Rin Katou
  • Patent number: 10313830
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires time-series position information acquired by a terminal device. The determination unit determines whether relation between one or more pieces of interest position information included in the time-series position information acquired by the acquisition unit and prior or posterior position information in time series satisfies a predetermined criterion, and determines whether to hold the interest position information based on a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN COPRPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Namiki, Kota Tsubouchi, Yoshimitsu Sakui
  • Patent number: 10311484
    Abstract: A data processing device according to the present application includes a reception unit, a first memory unit, a second memory unit, and a storage unit. The reception unit receives user information relating to a user using a user terminal by being triggered upon an access of the user terminal to an information providing device. The first memory unit stores the user information that is received by the reception unit. The storage unit stores the user information in a management area of a second memory unit that is different for each information providing device that is a trigger for reception of the user information stored in the first memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Yamada, Hiroaki Miyanaga, Tetsuya Hibino
  • Patent number: 10303346
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes cursor control, display position change, and range selection units. When switching operation for switching to a selection mode for selecting characters included in a display region displayed in a display unit is detected, the cursor control unit displays another cursor different from a cursor displayed in the display region. When moving operation for moving the display region is detected in the selection mode, the display position change unit maintains one cursor at an original display position or a certain position near the original display position in the display unit, and moves a display position of the display region together with the other cursor in accordance with the moving operation. The range selection unit determines, to be a selection range, a region between the one cursor and the other after the movement of the display position of the display region by the display position change unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuki Sakamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Kazumasa Okabe
  • Publication number: 20190156451
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a deciding unit. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information on a user. The deciding unit decides, based on the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit, a placement position in which a virtual riding point that corresponds to a riding point that is used for the user to ride in a moving vehicle and that is virtually set is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo KITAGISHI, Atsushi HASHIMOTO, Takanori HIROHASHI, Yuki TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190156258
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a specifying unit and a deciding unit. The specifying unit specifies a placement available position that is a position in which a virtual riding point that corresponds to a riding point that is used to ride in a moving vehicle and that is virtually set can be placed. The deciding unit decides, based on the placement available position specified by the specifying unit, the placement position in which the virtual riding point is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo KITAGISHI, Taro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190156248
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning apparatus includes a generating unit that generates a model. The model includes an encoder that encodes input information. The model includes a vector generating unit that generates a vector by applying a predetermined matrix to the information encoded by the encoder. The model includes a decoder that generates information corresponding to the information from the vector. The learning apparatus includes a learning unit that, when predetermined input information is input to the model, learns the model such that the model outputs output information corresponding to the input information and the predetermined matrix serves as a dictionary matrix of the input information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Riku TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20190156846
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a creating device includes an estimating unit that estimates a predetermined range that is included in an observation signal and in which a predetermined signal is included. The creating device includes a creating unit that creates, based on an enhancement range in which the predetermined signal included in a signal included in the predetermined range has been enhanced, a filter that is used to enhance a signal having the same characteristic as that of the predetermined signal from a range other than the predetermined range that is included in the observation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke KIDA, Tran DUNG
  • Publication number: 20190156588
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a providing unit. The acquiring unit acquires a usage situation of a user who has used a moving vehicle. The providing unit provides, in accordance with the usage situation acquired by the acquiring unit, a predetermined incentive to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo KITAGISHI
  • Patent number: 10296942
    Abstract: An advertisement choosing device chooses an advertisement to be displayed in a display space of a predetermined size. The advertisement choosing device includes an advertisement storing unit and an advertisement choosing unit. The advertisement storing unit stores therein sizes of multiple advertisements of various sizes. The advertisement choosing unit chooses, from among the multiple advertisements, one or more advertisements whose total size is equal to or less than the size of the display space as the advertisement to be displayed in the display space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10296357
    Abstract: A terminal device according to the present application includes an acceptance unit, a detection unit, and a storage unit. The acceptance unit accepts a specifying operation for specifying a piece of content related to a first application. The detection unit detects a predetermined executing operation after the acceptance unit accepts the specifying operation. Upon detection of the executing operation by the detection unit, the storage unit stores the piece of content specified by the specifying operation in a storage region used by a second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Sawada, Ayaka Hirano, Shinya Kato
  • Publication number: 20190147470
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a reception unit, a decision unit, and a transmitting unit. The reception unit receives from a user terminal an order request, including information on a moving body that makes an on-the-spot sale, for a product to be sold at the on-the-spot sale. The decision unit decides a price of the product in accordance with the information, received by the reception unit, on the moving body. The transmitting unit transmits, to the user terminal, the price decided by the decision unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke SHIRAISHI, Tomohito TAKUSARI, Kotaro UEMURA, Atsushi HOSODA
  • Patent number: 10292071
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment an information providing device includes a communication unit that communicates with a terminal device used by a user. The information providing device includes an information provision control unit that generates provided information provided to the user in the terminal device and optionally including congestion information presenting a congestion condition and cause the communication unit to transmit the generated provided information to the terminal device. The information providing device includes a derivation unit that derives sensitivity with respect to the congestion information based on information received by the communication unit from the terminal device after the provided information including the congestion information has been transmitted. The information provision control unit of the information providing device generates the provided information based on the sensitivity derived by the derivation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamitsu Iriyama, Kazuhiro Ninomiya, Michitaka Ohno
  • Publication number: 20190122252
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for predicting potential effectiveness of query-triggered internet advertisements received from different web page publishers using a deep learning neural network language model for clustering queries, and for automatically adjusting bids for advertisements by advertisers based on the predicted potential effectiveness. Using query-clusters rather than queries for adjusting bids for advertisements allows for more accurate and more consistent bidding strategy despite of sparsity in historical advertisement performance data, higher return on investments for the advertisers, and higher revenue for the publishers of the advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Yahoo Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Suleyman Cetintas, Jian Yang, Ben Shahshahani
  • Publication number: 20190122099
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning apparatus includes a first acquiring unit that acquires first output information that is output by an output layer when predetermined input information is input to a model that includes an input layer, a plurality of intermediate layers, and the output layer. The learning apparatus includes a second acquiring unit that acquires intermediate output information that is based on pieces of intermediate information that are output by the plurality of intermediate layers when the input information is input to the model. The learning apparatus includes a learning unit that learns the model based on the first output information and the intermediate output information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tran DUNG, Kenichi ISO
  • Publication number: 20190121534
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an information control program that causes a computer to execute: determining whether predetermined operation of touching a display screen of a terminal device is performed and thereafter maintaining operation of maintaining a state, in which the display screen is touched as a result of performing the predetermined operation, is being performed; and controlling including continuing second change operation that is based on first change operation when it is determined, at the determining, that the maintaining operation is being performed, the first change operation being operation started in accordance with the predetermined operation and performed for changing predetermined information related to a content displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiki SUGISAKI
  • Publication number: 20190122117
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning device includes a learning unit that learns an encoder that includes an input layer to which input information is input, a plurality of intermediate layers that extract features of the input information from output of the input layer in a stepwise manner, and an output layer that outputs the features of the input information extracted by the plurality of intermediate layers. The learning unit learns an applier that applies, to output of the encoder, an attention matrix including a plurality of column components that are based on a plurality of attributes extracted by the plurality of intermediate layers. The learning unit learns a decoder that generates output information corresponding to the input information from the output of the encoder to which the attention matrix has been applied by the applier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku MIYAZAKI, Hayato KOBAYASHI, Kohei SUGAWARA, Masaki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: D847163
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiko Matsumura
  • Patent number: D847849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Uchida
  • Patent number: D850463
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Kitami, Kohei Akino