Patents by Inventor Doug Sharp
Doug Sharp 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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Patent number: 11855941Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Varun Bhagwan, Gowri Kanugovi, Jeffrey Bonforte, Doug Sharp
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Publication number: 20230412545Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Varun BHAGWAN, Gowri KANUGOVI, Jeffrey BONFORTE, Doug SHARP
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Patent number: 11799981Abstract: Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. The identified interest(s) can be used to select content to be presented to the user. By way of a non-limiting example, information collected in response to the user clicking on a link in an electronic mail, email, message can be used to identify one or more content items to be presented to the user. By way of yet another non-limiting example, the identified content item(s) can comprise advertising content, news articles, etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Varun Bhagwan, Suhas Sadanandan, Doug Sharp
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Patent number: 11606326Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's inbox to detect message specific information corresponding to types of content in the message and the location of such content in the messages. The message specific information is then applied to other newly received or identified messages to learn message specific information about those messages. Based on such learning, information can be extracted from such messages in order to increase a user's experience and increase monetization.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Doug Sharp, Varun Bhagwan, Yoelle Maarek
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Publication number: 20230070278Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient’s inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient’s inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Varun BHAGWAN, Gowri KANUGOVI, Jeffrey BONFORTE, Doug SHARP
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Publication number: 20220374481Abstract: Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. The identified interest(s) can be used to select content to be presented to the user. By way of a non-limiting example, information collected in response to the user clicking on a link in an electronic mail, email, message can be used identify one or more content items to be presented to the user. By way of yet another non-limiting example, the identified content item(s) can comprise advertising content, news articles, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Varun BHAGWAN, Suhas SADANANDAN, Doug SHARP
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Patent number: 11489800Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Varun Bhagwan, Gowri Kanugovi, Jeffrey Bonforte, Doug Sharp
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Patent number: 11405475Abstract: Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. The identified interest(s) can be used to select content to be presented to the user. By way of a non-limiting example, information collected in response to the user clicking on a link in an electronic mail, email, message can be used to identify one or more content items to be presented to the user. By way of yet another non-limiting example, the identified content item(s) can comprise advertising content, news articles, etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Varun Bhagwan, Suhas Sadanandan, Doug Sharp
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Patent number: 11263664Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, 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 transform user search keywords into equivalent keyword formats commonly used and/or found within messaging platforms, and compile a data set from such information from which a search for content can be based. The present disclosure, therefore, provides systems and methods that augment users' search terms with terms found in users' mailboxes for purposes of searching for, identifying and communicating content that is relevant to those users.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Varun Bhagwan, Blake Carpenter, Mihajlo Grbovic, Doug Sharp, Vladan Radosavljevic, Nemanja Djuric
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Publication number: 20210392101Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Varun BHAGWAN, Gowri KANUGOVI, Jeffrey BONFORTE, Doug SHARP
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Patent number: 11108719Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.Inventors: Varun Bhagwan, Gowri Kanugovi, Jeffrey Bonforte, Doug Sharp
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Patent number: 11044222Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between electronic mail services and other services, such as social networking service 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 automatic linking of an electronic messaging service and another service, such as a social networking service. The disclosed systems and methods form a connection between an electronic messaging system and another service external to the electronic messaging system and uses the formed link to perform a number of actions on behalf of the user of the electronic messaging system and the other service.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.Inventors: Varun Bhagwan, Doug Sharp, Suhas Sadanandan, Sindhuja Sridharan
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Patent number: 10943261Abstract: Disclosed are computer systems and methods for contextually targeted advertising using a regular periodicity of information derived from a user's messaging behavior. The disclosed systems and methods enable the prediction of future purchases based on a periodicity analysis of a user's purchase history, whereby advertisements can be targeted to the user based on the user's determined purchase habits. The disclosed systems and methods analyze a user's inbox by mining for purchase receipt messages, and determine a frequency of purchases associated with such receipts. Based on the determined frequency, the disclosed systems and methods can predict when subsequent like or similar purchases are to occur, whereby relevant advertisements or coupons may be served to the user in advance of the projected purchases.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.Inventors: Doug Sharp, Varun Bhagwan
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Publication number: 20200358735Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's inbox to detect message specific information corresponding to types of content in the message and the location of such content in the messages. The message specific information is then applied to other newly received or identified messages to learn message specific information about those messages. Based on such learning, information can be extracted from such messages in order to increase a user's experience and increase monetization.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Doug SHARP, Varun BHAGWAN, Yoelle MAAREK
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Patent number: 10791084Abstract: 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 automatically generating an aggregate rating for an electronic message using one or both of explicit and implicit rating input from a number of recipients of the electronic message. The disclosed systems and methods communication information about the electronic message using the aggregate rating.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Varun Bhagwan, Doug Sharp, Suhas Sadanandan, Sindhuja Sridharan
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Patent number: 10764223Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's inbox to detect message specific information corresponding to types of content in the message and the location of such content in the messages. The message specific information is then applied to other newly received or identified messages to learn message specific information about those messages. Based on such learning, information can be extracted from such messages in order to increase a user's experience and increase monetization.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Doug Sharp, Varun Bhagwan, Yoelle Maarek
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Patent number: 10558822Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for anonymizing electronic documents. In accordance with one or more embodiments, structurally-similar electronic documents can be identified among a group of electronic documents (e.g., e-mail messages, documents containing HTML formatting, etc.). A hash function can be specifically tailored to identify the similarly structured documents. The structurally-similar electronic documents can be grouped into a same equivalence class. Masked anonymized document samples can be generated from the structurally-similar electronic documents utilizing the same equivalence class, thereby ensuring that the anonymized document samples when viewed as a part of an audit remain anonymous. An online process is provided to guarantee k-anonymity of the users over the entire lifetime of the auditing process. An auditor's productivity can be measured based on the amount of content revealed to the auditor within the samples he is assigned.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Liane Lewin-Eytan, Dotan Di Castro, Eyal Zohar, Yoelle Maarek, Ran Wolff, Doug Sharp
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Publication number: 20200021554Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between electronic mail services and other services, such as social networking service 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 automatic linking of an electronic messaging service and another service, such as a social networking service. The disclosed systems and methods form a connection between an electronic messaging system and another service external to the electronic messaging system and uses the formed link to perform a number of actions on behalf of the user of the electronic messaging system and the other service.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Varun BHAGWAN, Doug SHARP, Suhas SADANANDAN, Sindhuja SRIDHARAN
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Patent number: 10432571Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between electronic mail services and other services, such as social networking service 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 automatic linking of an electronic messaging service and another service, such as a social networking service. The disclosed systems and methods form a connection between an electronic messaging system and another service external to the electronic messaging system and uses the formed link to perform a number of actions on behalf of the user of the electronic messaging system and the other service.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Varun Bhagwan, Doug Sharp, Suhas Sadanandan, Sindhuja Sridharan
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Publication number: 20190273710Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's inbox to detect message specific information corresponding to types of content in the message and the location of such content in the messages. The message specific information is then applied to other newly received or identified messages to learn message specific information about those messages. Based on such learning, information can be extracted from such messages in order to increase a user's experience and increase monetization.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Doug SHARP, Varun BHAGWAN, Yoelle MAAREK