Patents by Inventor Benjamin Rey

Benjamin Rey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240115647
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising the association of the molecules of flavanol monomers and ?-viniferin as a nutritional product or a drug for humans or animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: David GAUDOUT, Stéphane REY, Benoit LEMAIRE, Line POURTAU, Camille POUCHIEU, Séverine DUBREUIL, Benjamin MORAS, Mégane BORNERIE, Julien GABASTON, Manon ROLAIT, Astrid DE VULPILLIERES
  • Publication number: 20120166291
    Abstract: A system and method of generating bid values for sponsored search includes steps or acts of: receiving a bid phrase for an advertisement for an item, wherein the bid phrase specifies a search query for which the advertisement should be displayed; receiving first information at a first input/output interface, the first information related to a bidding behavior of the advertiser; receiving second information at a second input/output interface, the second information relating to a history of bids by other advertisers for the bid phrase; and generating a bid value for the bid phrase submitted for the advertisement for the search query, based on the information received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, George Mavromatis, Benjamin Rey
  • Publication number: 20120030011
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for estimating a conversion rate associated with a digital ad. Generally, an ad provider and/or an ad campaign management system detects an action of a user associated with a digital ad. The ad provider and/or ad campaign management system detects a subsequent action of the user after detecting the action of the user associated with the digital ad and determines an amount of time between the action of the user associated with the digital ad and the subsequent action of the user. The ad provider and/or ad campaign management system then estimates a conversion rate associated with the digital ad based on the determined amount of time. In some implementations, a model is utilized to estimate a conversion rate associated with a digital ad based on dwell times even when the ad provider and/or ad campaign management system has little or no conversion data associated with the digital ad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Rey, Ashvin Kannan
  • Patent number: 7962479
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more related queries with respect to a given query. The method may comprise receiving a query comprising one or more terms, generating a corpus of candidate reformulations and identifying one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations related to the received query. One or more related queries are generated on the basis of the identified one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Tina Weyand
  • Publication number: 20110040616
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting an advertiser bid, in a sponsored search auction, in connection with one or more advertisements to be served in connection with keyword queries, the bid being associated with one or more keyword phrases. The bid is adjusted based on a predicted conversion rate associated with an advertisement served in connection with a match between a keyword query and the one or more keyword phrases. A bid may be decreased for a match with a lower predicted conversion rate than a comparison predicted conversion rate such as a normalized average predicted conversion rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ashvin Kannan, Benjamin Rey
  • Patent number: 7814086
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining semantically related terms based on sequences of search queries. Generally, a semantically related term tool examines search logs to associate search queries with a user submitting the search query. The semantically related term tool establishes a plurality of sequences of search queries, each sequence of search queries comprising one or more search queries associated with a common user and relating to a common concept. The semantically related term tool receives one or more seed terms and determines one or more terms related to the received seed terms based on the established plurality of sequences of search queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Bartz, Vijay Murthi, Benjamin Rey, Shaji Sebastian
  • Patent number: 7752220
    Abstract: A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for their respective similarity to the original query. After scoring, at least one candidate is chosen and may be used as a possible alternate query choice for a user or used to serve bidded advertisements to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Tina Weyand, Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey
  • Patent number: 7739264
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more related queries with respect to a given query. The method may comprise receiving a query comprising one or more terms, generating a corpus of candidate reformulations and identifying one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations related to the received query. One or more related queries are generated on the basis of the identified one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Marco Zagha
  • Patent number: 7689554
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying one or more queries related to a given query. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query written according to one or more writing systems of a language with multiple writing systems. A candidate set of queries written according to one or more writing systems of the language with multiple writing systems is identified. A score is calculated for the one or more queries in the candidate set indicating the similarity of the one or more queries with respect to the query received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Rosie Jones, Kevin Bartz, Benjamin Rey
  • Patent number: 7634462
    Abstract: A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for their respective similarity to the original query. After scoring, at least one candidate is chosen and may be used as a possible alternate query choice for a user or used to serve bidded advertisements to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Tina Weyand, Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey
  • Publication number: 20090198671
    Abstract: A system for generating subphrase queries. The system includes a sequence label modeling engine and a regression modeling engine. The sequence label modeling engine generates a plurality of subphrase queries by indexing through each token in a search phrase and labeling each token based on an association to other tokens in the search phrase. The regression modeling engine scores each subphrase query at least partially on the association according to a scoring model. The regression modeling engine identifies the subphrase query with the highest score which may then be used for identifying a sponsored search list or a web search item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ruofei Zhang, Haibin Cheng, Yefei Peng, Benjamin Rey, Jianchang Mao
  • Patent number: 7552112
    Abstract: A system is described for discovering associative intent queries based on search web logs. The system may mine one or more user sessions comprising data from search engine query logs and generate query pairs based on the data. The system may use statistics and morphology to identify relationships among the query pairs. From these relationships, the system may distinguish the associative intent query pairs from the similar and unrelated intent query pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Pradhuman Jhala, Benjamin Rey
  • Publication number: 20080140699
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more related queries with respect to a given query. The method may comprise receiving a query comprising one or more terms, generating a corpus of candidate reformulations and identifying one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations related to the received query. One or more related queries are generated on the basis of the identified one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Tina Weyand
  • Publication number: 20080120072
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining semantically related terms based on sequences of search queries. Generally, a semantically related term tool examines search logs to associate search queries with a user submitting the search query. The semantically related term tool establishes a plurality of sequences of search queries, each sequence of search queries comprising one or more search queries associated with a common user and relating to a common concept. The semantically related term tool receives one or more seed terms and determines one or more terms related to the received seed terms based on the established plurality of sequences of search queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Kevin Bartz, Vijay Murthi, Benjamin Rey, Shaji Sebastian
  • Publication number: 20080114721
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more related queries with respect to a given query. The method may comprise receiving a query comprising one or more terms, generating a corpus of candidate reformulations and identifying one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations related to the received query. One or more related queries are generated on the basis of the identified one or more queries or terms from the corpus of candidate reformulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Marco Zagha
  • Publication number: 20080077588
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for identifying similar queries. A user query may be compared with known search keywords. The user query may be a Chinese related query, which is converted into a different form before comparing with other converted queries or keywords. A similarity score based on different features may be used for comparing the queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey
  • Publication number: 20080071740
    Abstract: A system is described for discovering associative intent queries based on search web logs. The system may mine one or more user sessions comprising data from search engine query logs and generate query pairs based on the data. The system may use statistics and morphology to identify relationships among the query pairs. From these relationships, the system may distinguish the associative intent query pairs from the similar and unrelated intent query pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Pradhuman Jhala, Benjamin Rey
  • Publication number: 20070203894
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying one or more queries related to a given query. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query written according to one or more writing systems of a language with multiple writing systems. A candidate set of queries written according to one or more writing systems of the language with multiple writing systems is identified. A score is calculated for the one or more queries in the candidate set indicating the similarity of the one or more queries with respect to the query received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Rosie Jones, Kevin Bartz, Benjamin Rey
  • Publication number: 20070038602
    Abstract: A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for their respective similarity to the original query. After scoring, at least one candidate is chosen and may be used as a possible alternate query choice for a user or used to serve bidded advertisements to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Tina Weyand, Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey
  • Publication number: 20070038621
    Abstract: A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for their respective similarity to the original query. After scoring, at least one candidate is chosen and may be used as a possible alternate query choice for a user or used to serve bidded advertisements to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Tina Weyand, Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey