Yahoo Patents
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Patent number: 11966963Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating and providing recommendations of products are provided. For example, content is extracted from a message sent to a user. The content is evaluated to identify a product identifier corresponding to a product title of a product. If the product identifier is a truncated version of the product title, then a database of product titles and frequencies of occurrence of the product titles is used to complete the product title. A model is used to infer a product category for the product title. Matching scores are assigned to products within a product category based upon weighted attributes. A recommendation is provided to the user for a product having a matching score greater than a matching threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Ariel Raviv, Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev, Joel Oren
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Patent number: 11966445Abstract: A method and system for recommending content to a user whose interest(s) has not been identified is disclosed. A base user profile may be created for association with the user. The base user profile may be created by generating a list of ranked interests of a set of representative users. The list of ranked interests may be generated based on activity information obtained for the set of representative users. Content may be recommended to the user based on the base user profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Sudharsan Vasudevan, Herat Gandhi, Mahesh Inturi, Chinmayi Narasimhadevara, Sumit Ailawadi
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Patent number: 11968159Abstract: In an example, a starting argument post may be received, via a first debate interface, from a first client device associated with a first user account of a debate system. A first response post may be received, via a second debate interface, from a second client device associated with a second user account of the debate system. The first response post corresponds to a response to the starting argument post. The starting argument post and the first response post are included in a first debate thread. When a first submission status of the first user account is active, submission of a response post for inclusion in the first debate thread may be enabled via the first debate interface. A second response post may be received, via the first debate interface and when the first submission status of the first user account is active, from the first client device.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventor: Tanisha Sharma
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Patent number: 11962559Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, an email addressed to an email address associated with an email account is received. A request to display the email is received from a client device associated with the email account. In response to receiving the request to display the email, the email and a social interaction interface are displayed via an email interface on the client device. The social interaction interface includes one or more social interaction features. The one or more social interaction features include a commenting feature, a feedback feature and/or a chat feature.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Thanawat Kaewka, Lu Wang, Muchen Liu, Gautham Krishna
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Patent number: 11961108Abstract: 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 for analyzing messages associated with an inbox of a user, and providing functionality to the inbox for alerting the user to specific forms of content included within each message. Such functionality can include displaying messages and/or the content contained therein in a novel, dedicated and modified and/or embedded portion of a message inbox. The messages can also be modified upon display within in the inbox to indicate that the message includes content of a specific type. Also, messages that include specific content types can also trigger the disclosed framework to generate and provide alerts to the user indicating the inbox has received or includes specific forms of such content.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Ariel Raviv, Chris Gonsalves, Prateeksha Uday Chandraghatgi, Ashok Kumar, Ping-Hsiu Ben Tsai
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Patent number: 11961120Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for accessing first party Internet cookies. One method includes receiving, over an electronic network, a request for an electronic advertisement or an Internet cookie, wherein the request is received in response to a user requesting content from a subdomain of an advertising entity domain; and sending, to a device associated with the user, an Internet cookie having the subdomain of the advertising entity domain. The method further includes receiving, from the device associated with the user, a request for content from the subdomain of the advertising entity domain, wherein the request is received in response to the user requesting content from a domain of an online publisher; and accessing data stored in the Internet cookie sent to the device associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Matthew M. Patton, Seth Mitchell Demsey
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Patent number: 11961124Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing non-intrusive advertising content to users. The method includes receiving user input reflecting user content preferences for receiving desired content related to specific topics in lieu of standard advertising content. The method may further include receiving a web request for electronic and then retrieving desired content based on user content preferences. Thereafter, the method may include choosing non-intrusive advertising content and generating one or more datagrams including the desired content and the non-intrusive advertising content. The requested electronic content along with generated datagrams content may then be provided for displaying.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventor: Jeffrey Todd Wilson
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Patent number: 11962619Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for cryptographic signing of content requests. One method includes receiving, at a content network, a content request from a publisher website, the publisher website purporting to be associated with a publisher domain. At the content network, a public key may be received associated with the publisher domain. At the content network, at least one policy may be received associated with the publisher domain. It may be determined whether the content request comprises a cryptographic signature. If it is determined that the content request does not comprise a cryptographic signature, content may or may not be provided to the publisher website according to the policy from the publisher domain. If it is determined that the content request comprises a cryptographic signature, the cryptographic signature of the request may be validated using the public key.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Andrew Braksator, George Fletcher
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Patent number: 11954155Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes a generation unit and a providing unit. The generation unit uses a model that is trained to learn a relationship between a criterion for classifying users of a first company and a criterion for classifying users of a second company to generate a criterion (common key) for classifying the users of the second company into a first category, from the criterion for classifying the users of the first company into the first category. The providing unit provides a criterion generated by the generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Japan CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Sasaki, Akira Tajima, Takahiro Ishikawa, Koji Tsukamoto, Seira Nakamura, Kazuki Nakayama
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Patent number: 11956297Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, at a stream processor, an event, the stream processor including a plurality of processing stages; generating, by the stream processor, an augmented event based on the event, the augmented event including at least one additional field not appearing in the event, the additional field generated by an operation selected from the group consisting of a join or dimensional annotation operation; and emitting, by the stream processor, the augmented event to downstream consumer.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Michael Pippin, David Willcox, Allie K. Watfa, George Aleksandrovich
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Patent number: 11954125Abstract: Techniques for providing batch performance using a stream processor are described. In one technique, a method includes receiving an event that includes an event key and a timestamp. The method then generates a partition value and time bucket value, the partition value generated based on the event key and the time bucket value generated based on the timestamp. The event key, partition value, and time bucket value are then combined to form a database key and used in a command to a database.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Michael Pippin, David Willcox, Allie K Watfa, George Aleksandrovich
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Patent number: 11956198Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, by a computing device, a message corresponding to a user inbox and to be added to the user inbox; applying, by the computing device, prior to adding the message to the user inbox, a message classification model to content of the message to determine one or more classifications corresponding to the message; determining, by the computing device, that the message is an important message based on whether one or more of the classifications is one of a set of predetermined classifications; adding, by the computing device, metadata to the message, the added metadata indicating that the message is an important message; and transmitting, to the user inbox, by the computing device, the message and the added metadata.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Chris Luvogt, Muni Xu, Rofaida Abdelaal, Bhopal Singh
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Patent number: 11947542Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising detecting a real close of books (COB) of a data transport, the real COB associated with a set of raw events transmitted over the data transport, flushing a stream processor in response to detecting the real COB, and retrieving a set of processed events from a distributed file system after the flushing is complete. A fact COB computation is then performed on the set of processed events and the set of raw events, the fact COB computation outputting a number of missing events, each missing event representing a raw event that is not present in the set of processed events. The processed events are then certified upon determining that the number of missing events is below a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Michael Pippin, David Willcox, Allie K. Watfa, George Aleksandrovich
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Patent number: 11947633Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for oversampling for imbalanced test data are provided. A classifier is configured to classify data points as either belonging to a first class or a second class. A determination may be made that the first class and the second class are imbalanced where a first number of data points estimated to be part of the first class is a threshold amount less than a second number of data points estimated to be part of the second class. An oversampling ratio is determined for the first class. The oversampling ratio is used to select a sample set of data points for editorial labeling, where the sampling set of data points comprises a total number of data points below a threshold amount.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Hongwei Shang, Jean-Marc Langlois, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Changsung Kang
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Patent number: 11947897Abstract: Methods and an apparatus are provided for associating video content to keywords present on the webpage of a user computer. Furthermore, the method includes creating a link on the webpage from the keyword which displays the video file when the link is activated. In addition, a system for video content association includes a video association controller configured to receive a request for video content association when a webpage is requested by a user computer and determine whether the webpage contains at least one keyword. Furthermore, the video association controller is configured to display a link on the webpage from at least one keyword to a video file.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventor: Michael Fisher
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Patent number: 11949671Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing online advertising data secure sharing. One method includes receiving, at a server, a request for proprietary data from a data consumer, the request including a data consumer identifier; retrieving, from a database of proprietary data, proprietary data based on the request; determining, by the server, whether the retrieved proprietary data is at least one of: designated to be processed and designated to have privileges set; processing, by the server, the proprietary data when the server determines the proprietary data is designated to be processed; setting one or more privileges to the proprietary data using the certificate associated with the data consumer identifier when the server determines the proprietary data is designated to have privileges set; encrypting the proprietary data using the certificate associated with the data consumer identifier; and transmitting the encrypted proprietary data to the data consumer.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Matthew M. Patton, Seth Mitchell Demsey
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Patent number: 11947927Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for sorting rows of a dataset after a JOIN operation. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising performing a JOIN operation on an annotation dataset, the performing of the JOIN operation generating an unordered dataset; grouping a plurality of rows in the unordered dataset into a plurality of buckets, the grouping performed based on a root dataset associated with the annotation dataset; sorting each bucket, the sorting comprising sorting each bucket independently; and combining each sorted bucket into a sorted dataset.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: George Aleksandrovich, Allie K. Watfa, Robin Sahner, Mike Pippin
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Patent number: 11941669Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A machine learning model may be trained using a plurality of sets of information. One or more pruning operations may be performed in association with the training to generate a machine learning model with sparse vector representations associated with features of the plurality of sets of information. A request for content associated with a client device may be received. A set of features associated with the request for content may be determined. A plurality of positive signal probabilities associated with a plurality of content items may be determined using the machine learning model based upon one or more sparse vector representations, of the machine learning model, associated with the set of features. A content item may be selected from the plurality of content items for presentation via the client device based upon the plurality of positive signal probabilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Junwei Pan, Tian Zhou, Aaron Eliasib Flores
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Patent number: 11943310Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining activity patterns based upon user activity and/or performing operations based upon the activity patterns are provided. For example, activity performed using a communication interface associated with a user account may be detected. The activity may be analyzed to determine an activity pattern associated with a first set of conditions. The activity pattern may be stored in a user profile associated with the user account. The user profile may comprise a plurality of activity patterns. Each activity pattern of the plurality of activity patterns may be associated with a set of conditions of a plurality of sets of conditions. It may be determined that the first set of conditions are met. Responsive to determining that the first set of conditions are met, one or more operations associated with the activity pattern may be performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma, Gnanavel Shanmugam
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Patent number: 11935091Abstract: Systems and method are disclosed for providing advertisements to users by determining the occurrence of user defined external triggering events comprising a moment. One method comprises defining a set of conditions or criteria that define a moment, collecting data associated with said set of conditions or criteria, evaluating whether the conditions or criteria are satisfied and whether the user defined moment has occurred, executing an advertisement campaign associated with said user defined moment, transmitting an advertisement associated with said user defined moment to a target user, and modifying said advertisement in accordance with changes in the data associated with the conditions or criteria.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Toby Ernster, Seth Mitchell Demsey, Edward Barnes
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Patent number: 11936547Abstract: At times, it may be desirable to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content. One manner of making the determination may include accessing presentation time information that indicates the time(s) at which one or more client systems present particular dynamic content and accessing event time information indicating the time(s) at which one or more auditable events occur in the dynamic particular content. Based on the presentation time information and the event time information, it may be possible to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: G. Thomas Des Jardins, Jeffrey Dalton Porter, Vinayak Raghuvamshi, Bryan Slavin, Paul Miller
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Patent number: 11934472Abstract: In an example, first entities are extracted from user profiles. Second entities are extracted from content information associated with content item. User-associated metrics associated with the first entities are determined based upon the user profiles and/or content events. First vector representations of the first entities and second vector representations of the second entities are processed to generate an attention distribution array. Each value of the attention distribution array represents, for a user interested in an entity of the first entities, a proportion of (i) entity-specific activity, of the user, related to an entity of the second entities relative to (ii) an entirety of activity of the user. An inferred activity distribution array is generated by applying the user-associated metrics to the attention distribution array. A filtered subset of activity distribution values is generated by pruning values from the inferred activity distribution array.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Yufeng Ma, Rao Shen, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Donghyun Kim, Liuqing Li
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Patent number: 11928119Abstract: 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: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Ingmar Weber, Yoelle Maarek, Yehuda Arie Koren
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Patent number: 11928712Abstract: A computer-implemented method for allocation-free control of online campaigns for distributing online content includes receiving a daily content distribution spending budget and one or more response functions, calculating one or more plant gain estimates based on the one or more response functions, calculating a marginal content distribution spending budget based on the daily content distribution spending budget, generating one or more control signals based on the calculated marginal budget and the calculated one or more plant gain estimates, generating a price control signal based on the generated one or more control signals, and calculating a bid for one or more impressions based on the price control signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Qixing Zheng, Niklas Karlsson
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Patent number: 11929964Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that provides mechanisms for enabling message senders to dictate, control and/or create dynamic immersive content consumption experiences for recipients of their messages. The disclosed framework provides message senders with previously non-existent functionality to control the experience and environment within which their messages are consumed. Conventional systems provide recipients with capabilities to consume messages and/or supplemental content; however, these capabilities are driven and controlled by the hosting messaging platform and/or the third party entity that is availed opportunities to provide supplemental content. The disclosed framework prevents such experiences by providing capabilities to the message sender that involves control not only over the experience of the sender's messages but also control over the experience of the environment in which the messages are consumed by their recipients.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Mohit Goenka, Gnanavel Shanmugam, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma
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Patent number: 11921846Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in distributional similarity identification using randomized observations. In connection with an intrusion detection system monitoring a computing system, a pair of perturbed sample sets are generating using a pair of real sample set (or real observations) and a pair of random sample sets (of randomly-selected observations), and a similarity measuring representing a level of consistency in user behavior is determined. The systems improve the quality and accuracy of the similarity determination for use in intrusion detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Stav Yanovsky Daye, Ran Wolff
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Patent number: 11922554Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide a cloud-based framework for the creation and/or enhancement of high quality media content for dissemination over a computerized network. The disclosed framework is configured to operate in accordance with at least one of a content creation, content enhancement and/or rendering template. Such templates can function as rules engines that call specific types of ML or AI algorithms or routines that modify the input data according to the type of template being used. Thus, the disclosed framework can be utilized for creating new high-quality media, improving upon existing media and/or reformatting media for rendering upon dissemination.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Victor Kyriazakos, Eugen Fialcovschi, Christos Papapavlou, Ben Skinner, Zeda Stone, Herve Bizira
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Patent number: 11922937Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for detecting trigger phrases and transmitting electronic messages to devices are provided. For example, audio received via a microphone of a first device may be monitored. Responsive to detecting a first trigger phrase in a first audio segment identified during the monitoring, a first electronic message comprising instructions to activate a microphone function of a second device may be generated and the first electronic message may be transmitted to the second device. Responsive to detecting a second trigger phrase in a second audio segment identified during the monitoring, a second electronic message comprising instructions to activate a microphone function of a third device may be generated and the second electronic message may be transmitted to the third device.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventor: Varun Bhagwan
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Patent number: 11916946Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying malicious traffic associated with a website.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Donald J. McQueen
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Patent number: 11916899Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for managing online identity authentication risk in a nuanced identity system. For example, a method may include receiving a request by a user for a transaction on an electronic platform; determining a risk associated with the requested transaction; determining a current level of assurance associated with the user on the electronic platform; determining that the risk exceeds the current level of assurance; adjusting the current level of assurance such that the adjusted level of assurance exceeds the risk; and executing the requested transaction on the electronic platform after adjusting the current level of assurance.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: George Fletcher, Jonathan Hryn, Lovlesh Chhabra, Deepak Nayak
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Patent number: 11915158Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for cross-domain action prediction are provided. Action sequence embeddings are generated based upon a textual embedding and a graph embedding utilizing past user action sequences corresponding to sequences of past actions performed by users across a plurality of domains. An autoencoder is trained to utilize the action sequence embeddings to project the action sequence embeddings to obtain intent space vectors. A service switch classifier is trained using the intent space vectors. In response to the service switch classifier predicting that a current user will switch from a current domain to a next domain, the current user is provided with a recommendation of an action corresponding to the next domain.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Su-Chen Lin, Zhungxun Liao, Jian-Chih Ou, Tzu-Chiang Liou
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Patent number: 11914838Abstract: A device, system, and method are directed towards facilitating composing, editing, and displaying a message that includes text and graphics inline. An edit window provides a mechanism for editing the text inline. The message, including text and graphics, may be sent to a remote device. The remote device may display the message, and edit the text and graphics inline, and send a reply message to the original sender.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Chris Kalaboukis, Sunil Nagaraj
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Patent number: 11915114Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. A training sample is first received from a source. A prediction is generated according to the training sample and based on one or more parameters associated with a model. A metric characterizing the prediction is also determined. The prediction and the metric are transmitted to the source to facilitate a determination on whether a ground truth label for the training sample is to be provided. When the ground truth label is received from the source, the one or more parameters of the model are updated based on the prediction and the ground truth label.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Gal Lalouche, Ran Wolff
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Patent number: 11915693Abstract: Methods, programming, and system for modifying a slot value are described herein. In a non-limiting embodiment, an intent may be determined based on a first utterance. A first slot-value pair may be obtained for the first utterance based on the intent, the first slot-value pair including a first slot and a first value associated with the first slot. A second value associated with the first slot may be identified, the second value being identified from a second utterance that was previously received. Based on the intent and the first slot, a type of update to be performed with respect to the second value may be determined. The second value may then be updated based on the first value and the type of update.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Prakhar Biyani, Cem Akkaya, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis
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Patent number: 11914582Abstract: 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 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Su-Chen Lin, Jian-Chih Ou, Tzu-Chiang Liou, Wei-Lun Su
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Patent number: 11909725Abstract: 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 privacy-aware machine learning using an improved data encoding that withholds more information. The disclosed systems and methods encode a corpus of data and encode each query used in searching and generating query results from the corpus of encoded data.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Eric Bax, Charlotte Bax
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Patent number: 11907240Abstract: A method, implemented on at least one computing device each of which has at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for presenting a search result in a search result card, the method includes receiving from a user, an input associated with a search query; fetching one or more search results in accordance with the search query; generating a search result card for each of the one or more search results; and presenting to the user, one or more search result cards as a response to the search query, the one or more search result cards corresponding to the one or more search results, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventor: Wen Yang
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Patent number: 11907858Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for entity disambiguation are provided. For example, a document may be analyzed to identify a first mention and a second mention. One or more techniques may be used to select and link a candidate entity, from a first set of candidate entities, to the first mention and select and link a candidate entity, from a second set of candidate entities, to the second mention.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Aasish Pappu, Roi Blanco, Yashar Mehdad, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
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Patent number: 11909745Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing sender-recipient pair data to establish sender-level trust in future communication. One method comprises receiving raw communication data over a network and testing the received raw communication data against trained machine learning data to predict whether the raw communication data is associated with expected communication data. The raw communication data is sorted for expected communication data, which is further analyzed for sender-recipient pair data and assigned an expected communication pair data score. Senders associated with an expected communication pair data score that meets or exceeds a threshold are labeled and stored in a database as trusted. As a result of the sender-recipient pair analysis, recipients at-risk for being scammed can be identified, senders misidentified as spammers can be properly classified, and machine learning techniques utilized for analyzing raw communication data can be fine-tuned.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Donald J. Mcqueen, Paul S. Rock
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Patent number: 11899672Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving an event, such as a streaming event, from a client. The method determines that the event comprises a primary event and, if so, writes the primary event to a cache and returning the primary event to the client. The method later receives a second event from the client, the second event associated with the first event, annotates the second event based on the primary event, and returns the annotated second event to the client.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: David Willcox, Maulik Shah, Allie K. Watfa, George Aleksandrovich
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Patent number: 11899728Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources that include person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, obtaining a second set of suggestions based on information from an additional data source, ranking the first and second sets of suggestions to generate a ranked list of suggestions, and presenting at least some of the ranked suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Shenhong Zhu, Chun Ming Sze, Hang Su, Huming Wu, Hui Wu, Jiuhe Gan, Xiaobing Han, Mingtian Liu, Yuan Zhang, Scott Gaffney
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Patent number: 11899664Abstract: A novel framework optimizes SQL queries that are generated from a templated virtual sematic layer. The framework introduces the use of a virtual semantic layer into database management systems' operations, whereby templated SQL queries can be rewritten according to a determined and measured nesting, dimensional structure that produces an optimized search system. This enables templated SQL fragments to be translated for query optimization, thereby reducing the drain on a database's resources and minimizing a query's impact on the database's performance.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Aaron J. Klish, Jonathan Kilroy, Moiz Arafat, Rishi Agarwal
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Patent number: 11893815Abstract: 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: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Vinod Balakrishnan, Xiaoyu Guo
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Patent number: 11887154Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for implementing a model for serving exploration traffic are provided. An amount of spend by a content provider to provide content items of the content provider through a content serving platform to client devices of users is determined. A number of exploration impressions of users viewing exploration content items of the content provider over a timespan is determined. A return on exploration impression metric is determined for the content provider based upon a ratio of the amount of spend to the number of exploration impressions. The return on exploration metric is used to rank available exploration content items of content providers for serving exploration traffic.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Tal Cohen, Yair Koren, Abraham Shahar, Alexander Zlotnik, Yohay Kaplan
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Patent number: 11886488Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, and programming for responding to an image related query. Information related to each of a plurality of images is received, wherein the information represents concepts co-existing in the image. Visual semantics for each of the plurality of images are created based on the information related thereto. Representations of scenes of the plurality of images are obtained via machine learning, based on the visual semantics of the plurality of images, wherein the representations capture concepts associated with the scenes.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Paloma de Juan, Aasish Pappu
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Patent number: 11886478Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a first performance metric score may be determined based upon first content item text. A plurality of similarity scores associated with a plurality of sets of content item text may be determined. One or more sets of content item text may be selected from among the plurality of sets of content item text based upon the plurality of similarity scores and a plurality of performance metric scores associated with the plurality of sets of content item text. The plurality of performance metric scores may comprise one or more performance metric scores associated with the one or more sets of content item text. The one or more performance metric scores may be higher than the first performance metric score. One or more representations of the one or more sets of content item text may be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Shaunak Mishra, Changwei Hu, Kevin Yen, Manisha Verma, Yifan Hu, Maxim Ivanovich Sviridenko, Avinash Chukka, Max Edward Beech, Chao-Hung Wang, Hua-Ying Tsai, Kamil Michal Zasadzinski, Wei Yu Lin, Yu Tian
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Patent number: 11880401Abstract: 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: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Srinath Ravindran, Mahmoudreza Abasi, Narayan Bhamidipati
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Patent number: 11880303Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content cache invalidation using cache tags are provided. A first proxy hop may receive a request from a client device for a content object originating from a content source. A cache tagging script is executed to add a query parameter to the request to create a modified request. The query parameter specifies a cache tag version for the content object. The modified request is transmitted through one or more subsequent proxy hops to the content source to retrieve the content object. The content object, tagged with a cache tag specifying the cache tag version, is cached as a cached content object within a cache. The cache tag is associated with an expiration timestamp after which the cached content object is designated to be invalid.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Peter Cheung, Shu Kit Chan
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Patent number: 11875273Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for machine learning (ML) classification of digital content for mobile communication devices, such as implemented in connection with one or more computing and/or communication networks and/or protocols.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Marc Bron, Mounia Lalmas, Huw Evans, Mahlon Chute, Miriam Redi, Fabrizio Silvestri
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Patent number: 11876764Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods for efficiently monitoring and following up on delivered messages for which a user expects and/or requires a reply. The disclosed functionality provides a fully automated, personalized, easy and efficient way to identify and manage outgoing mail messages that require reply by marking outbound messages as RSVP messages, which are those messages determined to require a reply. Such functionality is based on the ability of the disclosed framework to distinguish between a “satisfactory response” (i.e., a response that includes the required information) and a response that is not.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Natalia Silberstein, Irena Grabovitch-zuyev, Iftah Gamzu, Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli, Yoelle Maarek, Liane Lewin-Eytan