Patents Assigned to Yahool Inc.
  • Publication number: 20150249633
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a notification email within the framework of standard email messaging protocols employs custom headers providing a short, informative notification of the subject of the email.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Yahool Inc.
    Inventor: Ala' Ibrahim
  • Publication number: 20140301027
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow one or more fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves fanless servers installed on the server racks and introduces fan units to draw cooling air from the cold row encapsulation structure through the fanless servers on the racks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Yahool Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Noteboom, Albert Dell Robison
  • Publication number: 20130148903
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to image object recognition or retrieval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Yahool Inc.
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo
  • Publication number: 20120072281
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for enabling relevant search results and advertisement selections to be generated in response to domain queries. A query that is input to a search engine is received. The query is analyzed to determine whether the search query is a domain query. If the query is determined to be a domain query, at least one domain related segment is stripped from the domain query to generate a condensed query, the condensed query is tokenized into at least one token, and the token(s) is/are spell corrected to generate at least one query feature. The query feature(s) may be normalized to generate at least one normalized query feature. The query feature(s) is/are provided to an advertisement selector to be used to select one or more advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Yahool Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Chao Chang, Arun Kumar Gnanamani, Ankur Gupta
  • Publication number: 20100217648
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that may be used to determine a probability of whether a visitor to a web document is likely to click on a web advertisement. An exemplary method may include detecting one or more features in a web document. One or more expert statistical models to which the web document belongs may be determined and associated weightings may be determined based, at least in part, on the one or more features detected. A click-through-rate probability for a web advertisement to be placed on the web document may be estimated based on the one or more expert statistical models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Yahool. Inc., a Delaware Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak K. Agarwal, Vanja Josifovski, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Robert Hall
  • Publication number: 20100091448
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow server fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves using multiple cold row encapsulation structures to cool the servers installed on the racks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Yahool Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Noteboom, Albert Dell Robison, Jesus Suarez, Norman Holt
  • Publication number: 20090265328
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for identifying newsworthy search queries employing a machine learning approach which combines offline and online modeling to achieve a high level of accuracy as well as timeliness and scalability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Yahool Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Parekh, Jignashu Parikh, Pavel Berkhin
  • Publication number: 20070189333
    Abstract: Provided are methods, processing systems and media content devices for associating a device clock from a media content device and a reference time external to the media content device for: receiving media content containing a representation of the reference time; determining a timestamp derived from the device clock, wherein the timestamp is associated with the received media content; and reconstructing the reference time from the media content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Yahool Inc.
    Inventors: Mor Naaman, Marc Davis, Nathaniel Good, Leonard Lin, Gordon Luk, Andrew Baio