Patents by Inventor Borkur Sigurbjornsson
Borkur Sigurbjornsson 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).
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Publication number: 20140052754Abstract: A device for creating automatic URL links that, based on a selected sequence of words containing a target key word, inserts links into a source multimedia content requested by an end user through a web page when an inserted link is clicked on; an additional multimedia content external to said requested source multimedia content that is displayed to the end user, providing trustworthy information related to said target key word provided by a likewise trustworthy entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventors: Juan Carlos Grijelmo Menchón, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Louis Lambeau, Montserrat Illueca Martínez, Arnau González Massó, José Luis Nueno Guitart, Alexandra Llopart Gutiérrez
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Patent number: 8429176Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for extending media annotations using collective knowledge. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a plurality of content items and associated annotations. The method further normalizes the plurality of associated annotations and calculates pair frequencies for the plurality of associated annotations. The method then retrieves a plurality of alternative annotations and provides the plurality of alternative annotations.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Roelof van Zwol
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Patent number: 8370286Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing a set of recommended annotations. A set of tags associated with a content item within a content sharing system is identified, where the content item is associated with a user of the content sharing system. A set of global tag co-occurrences within the content sharing system is identified for the set of tags, where each of the global tag co-occurrences in the set of global tag co-occurrences identifies a pair of tags including one of the set of tags, wherein the pair of tags have both been used together to tag at least one of the content items within the content sharing system. One or more sets of personal tag co-occurrences is identified for the set of tags, where each of the sets of personal tag co-occurrences is used in a corresponding one of one or more personal contexts of the content sharing system, the one or more personal contexts relating to the user of the content sharing system.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Adam Rae
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Publication number: 20120011129Abstract: Exemplary methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support extraction of objects and facets from one or more extraction corpora and ranking of said facets using multiple ranking corpora.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Kaushal Kurapati, Polly Ng, Anand Ramani, Vanessa Murdock, Sriram J. Sathish, Anuj Sahai, Mridul Muralidharan, Lluis GarcÂa Pueyo
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System and method for classifying tags of content using a hyperlinked corpus of classified web pages
Patent number: 8046361Abstract: An improved system and method for classifying tags of content using a hyperlinked corpus of classified web pages is provided. An anchor text index may be searched to find anchor texts that may match text of the tag, documents referenced by the matching anchor texts may be found, and the documents referenced by the matching anchor texts may be grouped to disambiguate multiple classifications that result from matching the anchor texts with the categories of the reference documents. To resolve ambiguity between multiple classifications, weighted classifications may be used where each document may be assigned a positive weight for a mapping to a category to indicate the confidence of the classification of the document to the category. The classification for the grouping of the documents referenced by the matching anchor texts with greatest frequency may be selected and output as the classification for the tag.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Roelof van Zwol, Simon E. Overell -
Patent number: 8005862Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for classifying content resources in a data set according to an external classification scheme using structural patterns associated with the data set.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Simon Ernest Overell
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Publication number: 20110072025Abstract: Exemplary methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support ranking entity relations utilizing the vocabulary of at least one external corpus for use in search engine information management systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporationInventors: Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Borkur Sigurbjornsson
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Publication number: 20110066618Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided to determine a response to a user submitted query based, at least in part, on a relationship between and/or among a plurality of terms of the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Vanessa Murdock, Roelof van Zwol, Maarten Clements
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Publication number: 20110035350Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing a set of recommended annotations. A set of tags associated with a content item within a content sharing system is identified, where the content item is associated with a user of the content sharing system. A set of global tag co-occurrences within the content sharing system is identified for the set of tags, where each of the global tag co-occurrences in the set of global tag co-occurrences identifies a pair of tags including one of the set of tags, wherein the pair of tags have both been used together to tag at least one of the content items within the content sharing system. One or more sets of personal tag co-occurrences is identified for the set of tags, where each of the sets of personal tag co-occurrences is used in a corresponding one of one or more personal contexts of the content sharing system, the one or more personal contexts relating to the user of the content sharing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Adam Rae
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Publication number: 20090298594Abstract: A method of creating a word game comprising receiving a seed value from a browser, obtaining from a media database a plurality of words associated with the seed value, creating a word game from at least a subset of the obtained plurality of words, integrating the word game into a browser interpretable document, and, returning the browser interpretable document to the browser. Some embodiments further comprise incorporating into the browser interpretable document an advertisement associated with the seed value and/or at least one of the obtained plurality of words. Also disclosed is a system comprising a gaming server which receives a game request; a media server and media tag database; the gaming server requesting from the media server a set of media tags associated with a game seed value, building a word game using at least a subset of the media tags, and transmitting the word game.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Simon E. Overell, Vanessa Murdock, Roelof Van Zwol
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Publication number: 20090265631Abstract: An improved system and method for visualizing and navigating a collection of tags labeling content in a user interface is provided. A visualization displaying a categorized subset of related tags may be generated in a user interface from a collection of tags labeling content items. One or more tags may be submitted in a query, a ranked list of related tags may be determined and clustered into categories, and then the clusters of related tags may be sent to a client device for display. A client device may display the categories and the related tags in each category and representative content items labeled by the related tags. The search space of a collection of tags may be refined by adding additional tags to a search query or may be expanded by removing tags from a search query, and an updated visualization may be generated for the requested search scope.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2008Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Roelof van Zwol
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING TAGS OF CONTENT USING A HYPERLINKED CORPUS OF CLASSIFIED WEB PAGES
Publication number: 20090265315Abstract: An improved system and method for classifying tags of content using a hyperlinked corpus of classified web pages is provided. An anchor text index may be searched to find anchor texts that may match text of the tag, documents referenced by the matching anchor texts may be found, and the documents referenced by the matching anchor texts may be grouped to disambiguate multiple classifications that result from matching the anchor texts with the categories of the reference documents. To resolve ambiguity between multiple classifications, weighted classifications may be used where each document may be assigned a positive weight for a mapping to a category to indicate the confidence of the classification of the document to the category. The classification for the grouping of the documents referenced by the matching anchor texts with greatest frequency may be selected and output as the classification for the tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2008Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Roelof Van Zwol, Simon E. Overell -
Publication number: 20090248610Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for extending media annotations using collective knowledge. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a plurality of content items and associated annotations. The method further normalizes the plurality of associated annotations and calculates pair frequencies for the plurality of associated annotations. The method then retrieves a plurality of alternative annotations and provides the plurality of alternative annotations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Roelof van Zwol
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Publication number: 20090240729Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for classifying content resources in a data set according to an external classification scheme using structural patterns associated with the data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Borkur Sigurbjornsson, Simon Ernest Overell