Yahoo Patents
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Patent number: 12271445Abstract: Techniques for automatic intelligent information extraction from an electronic document are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized method is disclosed comprising training a label prediction model to generate a set of label predictions, obtaining an electronic document, analyzing the electronic document and determining a set of features for each of a set of information items identified in the electronic document, obtaining model output from the label prediction model for each information item, the model output comprising, for a respective information item, a set of probabilities corresponding to a set of information classes, and generating an information extraction comprising a set of labels corresponding to the set of information items.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Sanika Shirwadkar, Nicolas Torzec, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis
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Patent number: 12271814Abstract: 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: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Simao Herdade, Armin Kappeler, Kofi Boakye, Joao Vitor Baldini Soares
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Patent number: 12271386Abstract: A determination device according to the present application has an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires the search queries, which are the search queries input by a plurality of input customers who have input the reference query and input within a predetermined period. The determination unit determines whether a predetermined period is appropriate or not based on the attributes of the input customers who have input search queries or based on whether these search queries satisfy predetermined conditions or not.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Kota Tsubouchi, Shuji Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Taguchi
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Patent number: 12271437Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving web-based document retrieval and object manipulation. In an implementation, objects within web documents (e.g., a web page) are manipulated when the objects are visible through a viewport of a user's web browser. According to a method, an object selected from a web document is manipulated when that selected object is displayed within the viewport of the user's browser. The manipulation may include downloading content associated with the stored object and additionally, or alternatively, executing a script associated with the stored object. Additionally, or independently, methods may be provided for blocking the download of an object in a retrieved web document until that object is displayed or visible in the user's browser viewport.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventor: David Ryan Artz
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Patent number: 12261811Abstract: The present teaching relates to dynamically generating a card. In one example, a request is received for generating a card to be provided to a user. Dynamic information related to the request is obtained. One or more modules are selected to be put into the card based on the dynamic information. The card is generated based on the selected one or more modules.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventor: Abhay Gupta
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Patent number: 12260642Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that enables cost-effective, accurate and scalable detection and recognition of key events in sporting or live events. The framework functions by creating a domain-specific video dataset with frame level annotations (i.e., deep domain datasets) and then training a lightweight camera view classifier to detect camera views for a given video. The disclosed framework uses pre-trained pose estimation and panoptic segmentation models along with geometric rules as labeling functions to define scene types and derive frame level classification training data. According to some embodiments, disclosed frameworks may be used to identify key persons or events, select a thumbnail corresponding to a key person or event, generate personalized highlights to enhance user experience and social media promotions for a team, sport or players, and predict and select the best camera view sequence for automatic highlights generation.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Deven Santosh Shah, Avijit Shah, Topojoy Biswas, Biren Barodia
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Patent number: 12260432Abstract: 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: March 25, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Junwei Pan, Tian Zhou, Aaron Eliasib Flores
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Patent number: 12261882Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A request for content associated with a device and/or a set of request information associated with the request for content may be received. A content item may be transmitted to the device. A set of client information associated with the device may be received. The set of client information may be analyzed to determine a fraudulence label associated with the request for content. Fraud detection information generated based upon the set of request information, the set of client information and/or the fraudulence label may be stored in a fraud detection database. A second request for content associated with a second device and/or a second set of request information associated with the second request for content may be received. A second fraudulence label may be determined based upon the second set of request information and/or the fraud detection database.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Robert Jason Harris, Jaime Morales, Jr., Ruichen Wang, Helen W Xie, Jian Tian
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Patent number: 12254036Abstract: A multimedia content item is summarized based on its audio track and a desired compression budget. The audio track is extracted and processed by an automatic speech recognizer to obtain a time-aligned text transcript. The text-transcript is partitioned into a plurality of segment sequences. An informativeness score based on a salience score and a diversity score is computed for each of the segments. A coherence score is also computed for the segments in the plurality of sequences. A subsequence of one of the segment sequences that optimizes for informativeness and coherence is selected for generating a new content item summarizing the multimedia content item.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventor: Inderjeet Mani
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Patent number: 12255903Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining whether requests for content are fraudulent are provided. A request for content may be received from a first device. A first user profile associated with the first device may be identified. The first user profile may comprise activity information associated with the first device, demographic information associated with the first device and/or interest information associated with the first device. A user profile database may be analyzed to identify a set of user profiles similar to the first user profile. A relevance score associated with the request for content may be generated based upon the resource, the set of user profiles and/or the first user profile. The relevance score may be compared with a threshold relevance to determine whether the request for content is fraudulent.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Gaurav Chaula, Kavind Aggarwal
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Patent number: 12255971Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for utilizing unused network capacity for prefetch requests. One method includes: receiving, over a network, network traffic information from a network provider of the network; determining a threshold value for prefetch request fulfillment based on the received network traffic information; receiving, over the network, a plurality of prefetch requests from an application running on a mobile device connected to the network of the network provider; determining, for each prefetch request of the plurality of prefetch requests, a score for the prefetch request based on the received plurality of prefetch requests; and responding to, for each prefetch request of the plurality of prefetch requests, the prefetch request based on the determined threshold value and the determined score for the prefetch request.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventor: Seth Mitchell Demsey
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Patent number: 12255967Abstract: The present teaching relates to tracking an event at a plurality of distributed servers. In one example, an event to be tracked is determined. A user associated with the event is identified. A script is generated to be embedded in a web page. The script triggers an event message when the user performs an online behavior related to the web page in accordance with the event. The event message triggered by the script is received. A tracing flag is determined from the event message. An instruction is provided to the plurality of distributed servers for executing one or more applications based on the event and the tracing flag.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Haiyan Luo, John Cheng, Yi Mao, Herve Marcellini
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Patent number: 12254492Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for converting mobile notifications to content using a local content exchange. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request for content from a mobile application; querying a data store of available content, the data store of available content populated with one or more notifications received by other mobile applications installed on the mobile device; identifying a responsive notification for the request for content based on the querying, the content item identified based on bid parameters associated with the one or more notifications; and transmitting the responsive notification to the mobile application.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Gaurav Chaula, Kavind Aggarwal
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Patent number: 12256125Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are directed toward local emotion detection during live streaming events. A client device receives a video stream from a remote server and captures media content while displaying the video stream. The client device uses a local machine learning/artificial intelligence event detection model to detect events in the media content. The client device then transmits detected events to the remote server involved in the live stream. The client device may additionally stream the locally captured media content to the remote server. In response, the remote server provides an interaction dashboard and, in some embodiments, mixes the local media content with the live stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventor: Ofer Shem Tov
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Patent number: 12248857Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Shaded bid values may be determined and/or submitted to one or more auction modules for participation in auctions. Auction information including at least one of minimum bid values to win associated with the auctions, sets of features associated with the auctions, the shaded bid values associated with the auctions, unshaded bid values associated with the auctions, etc. may be stored in a database. A machine learning model may be trained using a loss function and/or the auction information to generate a first machine learning model with feature parameters associated with features. A bid request, indicative of a second set of features, may be received. The first machine learning model may be used to determine a shaded bid value for submission based upon one or more first feature parameters, of the feature parameters, associated with the second set of features.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Tian Zhou, Djordje Gligorijevic, Bharatbhushan Shetty, Junwei Pan, Brendan Kitts, Shengjun Pan, Balaji Srinivasa Rao Paladugu, Sneha Thomas, Aaron Flores
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Patent number: 12250415Abstract: 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 automatically analyze a live streaming media file, and identify portions of the media that are highlights. The content classified as a highlight can be shared across social media platforms, and indexed for searching respective to attributes of the video content. The streaming and highlight media content is renderable in a novel, modified video player that enables variable playback speeds for how content is classified, and enables on-demand selections of specific content portions and adjustable rendering displays during streaming.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Bin Ni, Kirk Lieb, Rick Hawes, Yale Song, Benoit Schillings, Vahe Oughourlian, Jordi Vallmitjana, Jennelle Nystrom, Hardik Ruparel, Michael Chen, Adam Mathes, Arunkumar Balasubramanian, Jian Zhou, Matt Edelman
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Publication number: 20250078121Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining a bid value for placing an advertisement onto advertising space available through an electronic marketplace. A method is used for calculating the option value of maintaining the advertisement in the advertising space during one or more periods of time. The option value may be based on expected profits and the estimated future value of maintaining the advertisement. The option value may then be used to calculate the bid price for placing the advertisement.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Michael J. GREBECK, Ali Nasiri AMINI, Aaron E. FLORES, Jose Carlos Garcia FRANCO, Hans Marius HOLTAN, Robert Alden LUENBERGER
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Patent number: 12233342Abstract: 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: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Justin Thaler, Maxim Sviridenko, Edo Liberty, Prerit Uppal, Ron Belmarch, Jerry Shen
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Patent number: 12238055Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a review initiation request may be received from a first email account. The review initiation request may indicate proposed email content and/or a reviewer of the proposed email content. An email may be generated based upon the review initiation request. The email may include the proposed email content and/or an email review interface including a feedback entry field and/or an approval selectable input. The email may be transmitted to a reviewer email account of the reviewer. A review response may be received, via the email review interface, from the reviewer email account. The review response may indicate (i) feedback, indicating one or more suggestions associated with the proposed email content, submitted via the feedback entry field, and/or (ii) an approval indicator, indicating approval of the proposed email content, submitted via the approval selectable input.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventor: Jeffry B Sabat
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Patent number: 12236404Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for future event recommendation are provided. For example, messages of a user account of a user are parsed to identify messages corresponding to events attended by the user. Event features are extracted from the messages, where an event feature is descriptive of an aspect of an event. An event database of future events is queried using the event features to identify future events having one or more of the event features. A description of the future events is constructed and provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventor: Frank Richard Bentley
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Patent number: 12231379Abstract: 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 messaging framework that automatically applies a multi-factor analysis technique to incoming and received messages in order to properly identify a message's type and category, which dictates the manner in which the message is displayed within a recipient's inbox. The disclosed framework operates on two levels: i) it determines whether a message is from a human or machine sender (H/M classification), and ii) it determines the messages category (MAGMA categorization).Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Neeti Narayan, Hongwei Shang, Changsung Kang, Jean-Marc Langlois
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Patent number: 12223399Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. Upon receiving input data associated with a time series, hidden representations associated with the time series in a feature space are obtained and used to generate a query vector in a query space. Such generated query vector is then used to query relevant historic information related to the time series. The query vector and the relevant historic information are aggregated to generate at least one queried vector, which is aggregated with the hidden representations to generate enriched hidden representations that enhance the expressiveness of the hidden representations.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Suleyman Cetintas, Xian Wu
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Patent number: 12222973Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in electronic messaging, and other, 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 generating data extraction rules, which can then be used to automatically extract data from electronic messages.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev, Abhinav Pundir, Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli, Dotan Di Castro, Iftah Gamzu, Liane Lewin-Eytan
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Patent number: 12222999Abstract: Devices often receive content items to be saved for later presentation to a user. In some instances, the content of the message is analyzed to retrieve supplemental information from external data sources, such as a map to a location discussed in a message. However, such supplementing often fails to reflect the personal context of the content item to the user, who may not easily recall the associated personal context when the content item is later presented. Instead, for a content item to be saved, a device may evaluate personal data sources to identify the personal context of the content item to the user, and add personal context annotations to a content item record of the saved content item. Later, during a presentation of the content item to the user, the personal context annotations may be included as a reflection of the personal context of the content item to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma
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Patent number: 12222980Abstract: A method of generating congruous metadata is provided. The method includes receiving a similarity measure between at least two multimedia objects. Each multimedia object has associated metadata. If the at least two multimedia objects are similar based on the similarity measure and a similarity threshold, the associated metadata of each of the multimedia objects are compared. Then, based on the comparison of the associated metadata of each of the at least two multimedia objects, the method further includes generating congruous metadata. Metadata may be tags, for example.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Malcolm Slaney, Kilian Weinberger
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Patent number: 12223405Abstract: Shaded bid values may be determined and/or submitted to one or more auction modules for participation in auctions. Auction information including at least one of impression indications associated with the auctions, sets of features associated with the auctions, the shaded bid values associated with the auctions, etc. may be stored in a database. A machine learning model may be trained using the auction information to generate a first machine learning model with feature parameters associated with features. A bid request, indicative of a second set of features, may be received. The first machine learning model may be used to determine win probabilities and/or expected bid surpluses associated with multiple shaded bid values based upon one or more feature parameters, of the feature parameters, associated with the second set of features. A shaded bid value for submission may be determined based upon the win probabilities and/or the expected bid surpluses.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Shengjun Pan, Tian Zhou, Brendan Kitts, Hao He, Bharatbhushan Shetty, Djordje Gligorijevic, Junwei Pan, Tingyu Mao, San Gultekin, Balaji Srinivasa Rao Paladugu, Jianlong Zhang, Sneha Thomas, Aaron Flores
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Patent number: 12216693Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide a framework for a proactive prediction of the toxic propensity of an article. Prior to the publication and/or reception of comments to online content, the disclosed framework determines the toxic propensity of the content's context and/or specific words, sentences, sentiments, tone or other messages receivable from consumption of the content. Thus, disclosed framework performs proactive forecasting of the content's toxicity propensity”, which quantifies how likely the content is prone to incur or attract toxic comments. The framework can function and/or be configured to operate in a manner that can perform specifically adherent moderation actions that correspond to the content and control how the content can be interacted with, based on the toxic propensity determination, prior to the content's publication in an effort to thwart, prevent or stop toxic environments surrounding or stemming from the content from coming into existence.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Fei Tan, Yifan Hu, Kevin Yen, Changwei Hu, Ben Shahshahani
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Patent number: 12217193Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content recommendations using historical future data are provided. A model serving delay time is computed as an average of training delays of events. A historical data time interval is determined based upon the model serving delay time. A model is trained for predicting user content preferences using historic user distribution data and historic content distribution data associated with the historic data time interval. The model is utilized to generate and provide content recommendations to users.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Roie Melamed, Yohay Kaplan, Yair Koren
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Patent number: 12210536Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods customizing electronic communications. A future event associated with a first user may be determined, and a second user that is associated with the first user may be identified. A plurality of communications involving the first user and the second user may be analyzed. A selection rule may be applied based on the analyzed plurality of communications, the selection rule identifying content from the database. Content from the database may be selected based on the application of the selection rule. An electronic message may be provided to the first user identifying the future event, and the selected content may be provided to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Marcel Becker, Seth Halvaksz, William G. Wetherell, Alan Eyzaguirre
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Patent number: 12210555Abstract: Techniques for electronic document content bookmarking are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving user input indicating selection of a portion of the electronic document, receiving a request to bookmark the selected portion of the electronic document, generating a bookmark card for the selected portion of the electronic document, the bookmark card comprising information identifying the electronic document, the selected portion of the electronic document as bookmarked content and the at least one user-defined information item, receiving, via the computing device, a bookmark view request via the GUI, and causing display of the bookmark view via the GUI in response to the bookmark view request, the bookmark view comprising an entry corresponding to the generated bookmark card and providing the bookmarked content from the generated bookmark card, the bookmark view providing a number of actions selectable by the user in connection with the entry from the bookmark view.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Mohit Goenka, Nikita Varma, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Gnanavel Shanmugam
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Patent number: 12210588Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. Machine learning is performed based on training data via a dual loop learning process that includes a first loop for data decoding learning and a second loop for label decoding learning. In the first loop, first parameters associated with decoding are updated to generate updated first parameters based on a first label, estimated via the decoding using the first parameters, and a second label, predicted via the label decoding using second parameters. In the second loop, the second parameters associated with the label decoding are updated to generate updated second parameters based on a third label, obtained via the decoding using the updated first parameters, and a ground truth label.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventor: Eliyar Asgarieh
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Patent number: 12205142Abstract: Systems and methods are for identifying online advertisements to display to a user based on historical user data collected across the user's use of a plurality of Internet devices. One method includes receiving, over a network, a request for an advertisement to display at a first device of the user, the request including a unique identifier stored on the user's first device; accessing, in a database, a demographic or browsing history information generated from the user's use of a second device, the demographic or browsing history information being stored in the database in relation to the unique identifier; and identifying, based on the demographic or browsing history information, an advertisement to display at the user's first device. The demographic or browsing history information is synchronized based on the unique identifier being stored on the user's first device and the user's second device.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventor: Seth Mitchell Demsey
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Patent number: 12199932Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving a set of messages; filtering the set of messages to identify a set of newsletters in response to a selection of a newsletter control within a messaging application; rendering a newsletter view within the messaging application, the newsletter view displaying a plurality of tiles corresponding to the set of newsletters; receiving a section of a given tile in the plurality of tiles from a user; and rendering a newsletter reader view, the newsletter reader view including a subject and body of a selected newsletter corresponding to the given tile.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Kaivalya Niranjan Gandhi, Isaac Bradshaw, Chima Onyekwere, Nirmal Thangaraj, Davis Thomas, Suraj Upreti, Miodrag Kekic
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Patent number: 12199957Abstract: 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: February 16, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Eric Bax, Charlotte Bax
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Patent number: 12190357Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting consumer privacy in an online advertising environment. A request may be received from a browser for a webpage along with a unique browser identifier. The browser may be provided a first portion of the webpage that is locally available. The unique browser identifier may be provided to at least one advertising entity, wherein the advertising entity determines an advertisement based, at least in part, on the unique browser identifier. The advertisement may be received from the advertising entity, and provided to the browser as a second portion of the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventor: Jeffrey Todd Wilson
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Patent number: 12190348Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for evaluating email activity and/or controlling, based upon the email activity, transmission of instructions associated with quality are provided. A first email, transmitted by an email account associated with an entity to a plurality of email accounts, may be identified. First activity associated with the first email may be detected. A first set of activity information associated with the first activity may be stored in an entity profile associated with the entity. The entity profile may comprise a plurality of sets of activity information associated with a plurality of emails transmitted by one or more email accounts associated with the entity. A quality score corresponding to the first entity may be generated based upon the entity profile. A notification may be generated based upon the quality score. The notification may be transmitted to the first client device.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma, Gnanavel Shanmugam
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Patent number: 12189701Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems for sending push notifications of content items to client devices are provided herein. For example, an input received from a user can be expanded to obtain an expanded user interest. Content items from a content source can be filtered based upon the expanded user interest to obtain a set of filtered content items. A push notification can be constructed to comprise one or more of the filtered content items from the set of filtered content items. The push notification can be sent to a client device of the user for display as a device alert notification. In an example, the filtered content items, within the push notification, may be ranked based upon a ranking metric.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Preetam Joshi, Suju Rajan, Amit Phadke, Vishesh Joshi, Victor Laguna, Christopher Chi Kai Lam
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Patent number: 12182203Abstract: The present teaching relates to communication related to predictions. A communication chain is created with multiple chain units, each operating independently to provide prediction services related to a prompt with embedded information therein associated with predictions for the prompt to enable prediction services. A request is received for a requested operation related to a query prompt on one of prediction solicitation, prediction entry, verification entry, and prediction access. If a chain unit for the query prompt, the request is directed to the chain unit to perform the requested operation. If not, a new chain unit is created for the query prompt and the request is forwarded to the new chain unit to carry out the requested operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Eric Bax, Charlotte Bax, Lisa Giaffo, Melissa Gerber, Tanisha Sharma, Nikki Thompson, Kimberley Williams, Will Wagner
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Patent number: 12184644Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes a control unit. The control unit acquires, from an authentication server, a generation request of a key pair for FIDO authentication transmitted from a user terminal including an authenticator for the FIDO authentication to the authentication server, generates a generation instruction for causing the authenticator to generate the key pair based on the generation request, and notifies the authenticator of the generation instruction via the authentication server.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Japan CorporationInventors: Hidehito Gomi, Wataru Oogami
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Patent number: 12175749Abstract: 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 performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLCInventors: Guy Dassa, Whitney Zoller
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Patent number: 12177509Abstract: In an example, a first content item is provided for display on a first client device. A first feedback signal is received. The first feedback signal is indicative of one or more first user reactions to display of the first content item on the first client device. The first content item is provided for display on a second client device. A second feedback signal is received. A first popularity score associated with the first content item is determined based upon the first feedback signal and the second feedback signal. A first popularity label is assigned to the first content item based upon the first popularity score. An enhanced content presentation interface including the first content item is generated based upon the first popularity label assigned to the first content item. The enhanced content presentation interface including the first content item is presented on a third client device.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Eric T Bax, Lisa Giaffo, Nikki M Thompson, Melissa Gerber, William W Wagner
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Patent number: 12175498Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining a bid value for placing an advertisement onto advertising space available through an electronic marketplace. A method is used for calculating the option value of maintaining the advertisement in the advertising space during one or more periods of time. The option value may be based on expected profits and the estimated future value of maintaining the advertisement. The option value may then be used to calculate the bid price for placing the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Michael J. Grebeck, Ali Nasiri Amini, Aaron E. Flores, Jose Carlos Garcia Franco, Hans Marius Holtan, Robert Alden Luenberger
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Patent number: 12174892Abstract: 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 shared over a network and identifying information in them referencing entities based on a determined context of the messages. Once the entity information is identified, the disclosed framework segregates them based on the context, and then presents them in contextual views as content cards within or as part of generated, content-specific interfaces. The disclosed framework enables users to continue messaging while pivoting between different views of the generated interfaces, which enables the retrieval of additional information related to the entity information included on the content cards.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma
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Patent number: 12175387Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content item selection for goal achievement are provided herein. A goal of a user is identified. A model is utilized to evaluate the goal, user information, and a set of content items to generate predictions for the content items of how likely each content item will be a causation factor of the user making progress towards the goal in response to the user being provided with each content item. A target content item is selected from the set of content items based upon the target content item having a predicted likelihood of being the causation factor above a threshold. The target content item is provided through a registered media channel accessible through a device of the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Eric Theodore Bax, Kimberly Williams, Lisa Giaffo, Nikki Mia Williams, John Donald, Melissa Susan Gerber, Tanisha Sharma
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Patent number: 12154141Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for augmenting real-time bidding data with proprietary data. One method includes: receiving, at a server over an electronic communications network from a real-time impression bidder, a bid request or a request to augment a bid request with proprietary data; accessing, by the server from an internal database, proprietary data of a data augmenting service based on a user identifier of the bid request; determining, by the server, proprietary data to include in an augmented bid request based on at least one of the received bid request and the user identifier; formatting, by the server, the augmented bid request into a standardized, augmented bid request; and transmitting, by the server over the electronic communications network, the standardized, augmented bid request to the real-time impression bidder.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Seth Mitchell Demsey, Matthew M. Patton
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Patent number: 12147503Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for debiasing training data based upon information seeking behaviors are provided. Users associated with a set of training data are segmented into information seeking behavior groups corresponding to varying degrees of information seeking behaviors of the users. Biases for the information seeking behavior groups may be estimated based upon information seeking behaviors of users within the information seeking behavior groups. The training set of data is debiased using the biases to generate a debiased training set of data. A model may be trained to perform a task based upon the debiased training set of data.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Donghyun Kim, Liuqing Li, Yufeng Ma, Yu Wang, Rao Shen, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis
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Patent number: 12149495Abstract: 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: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventors: Gnanavel Shanmugam, Nitin Jose
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Patent number: 12149546Abstract: 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. An arrangement of particles corresponding to the first entities and the second entities may be generated. Charges associated with the particles may be determined based upon the first network profile. The particles may be rearranged to a second arrangement of particles based upon the charges. One or more clusters of particles in the second arrangement of particles may be identified. One or more coalition networks associated with fraudulent activity may be identified based upon the one or more clusters of particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLCInventor: Timothy Michael Olson
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Patent number: 12147466Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing electronic content, such as text, videos, and images. According to certain embodiments, user interactions with electronic content may be tracked over a plurality of modalities, such as web pages, email, mobile applications, and social media. The tracked user interactions may include copy/paste events, explicit user highlighting, social sharing, and user voting. Key passages of electronic content may be identified based on the tracked user interactions and ranked against one another. Ranking of passages may be based, for example, on a raw or normalized score for the identified key passages. Alternatively, the ranking of a passage may be based on a ratio of user interactions with the passage to total views of the electronic text containing the passage. One or more of the identified key passages (e.g., the highest ranked passages) may be published to one or more applications.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLCInventors: Conor F. White-Sullivan, Brandon T. Diamond, Michael J. Discala, Matthew Conlen, Andrew P. Sass
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Patent number: D1055973Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Yahoo Japan CorporationInventors: Ran Fu, Yuichi Kitajima, Hiroyuki Tanaka