Patents by Inventor Douglas B. Koen

Douglas B. Koen 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).

  • Patent number: 10373201
    Abstract: A system for providing mobile advertisement actions may include a memory to store a request, mobile carrier data, mobile advertisement data, and mobile advertisement action data. The system may include an interface operatively connected to the memory to communicate with a mobile device. The system may include a processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface. The processor may receive information and a request from the mobile device via the interface and may determine the mobile carrier data relating to a mobile carrier associated with the mobile device. The processor may identify the mobile advertisement data and the mobile advertisement action targeted to the request and the mobile carrier data. The processor may append the mobile advertisement action data to the mobile advertisement data. The processor may provide the mobile advertisement data with the appended mobile advertisement action data to the mobile device via the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20180005267
    Abstract: A system for providing mobile advertisement actions may include a memory to store a request, mobile carrier data, mobile advertisement data, and mobile advertisement action data. The system may include an interface operatively connected to the memory to communicate with a mobile device. The system may include a processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface. The processor may receive information and a request from the mobile device via the interface and may determine the mobile carrier data relating to a mobile carrier associated with the mobile device. The processor may identify the mobile advertisement data and the mobile advertisement action targeted to the request and the mobile carrier data. The processor may append the mobile advertisement action data to the mobile advertisement data. The processor may provide the mobile advertisement data with the appended mobile advertisement action data to the mobile device via the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Patent number: 9785970
    Abstract: A system for providing mobile advertisement actions may include a memory to store a request, mobile carrier data, mobile advertisement data, and mobile advertisement action data. The system may include an interface operatively connected to the memory to communicate with a mobile device. The system may include a processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface. The processor may receive information and a request from the mobile device via the interface and may determine the mobile carrier data relating to a mobile carrier associated with the mobile device. The processor may identify the mobile advertisement data and the mobile advertisement action targeted to the request and the mobile carrier data. The processor may append the mobile advertisement action data to the mobile advertisement data. The processor may provide the mobile advertisement data with the appended mobile advertisement action data to the mobile device via the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20140310095
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for detecting and handling click fraud in a mobile environment. The system may identify a source of a request. The request may be handled differently based on whether the source of the request originated from mobile traffic or web traffic. The source of the request may be used to determine whether a request is valid or invalid. The request may be flagged if the request is invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Patent number: 8799069
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for detecting and handling click fraud in a mobile environment. The system may identify a source of a request. The request may be handled differently based on whether the source of the request originated from mobile traffic or web traffic. The source of the request may be used to determine whether a request is valid or invalid. The request may be flagged if the request is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20140114762
    Abstract: A system for providing mobile advertisement actions may include a memory to store a request, mobile carrier data, mobile advertisement data, and mobile advertisement action data. The system may include an interface operatively connected to the memory to communicate with a mobile device. The system may include a processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface. The processor may receive information and a request from the mobile device via the interface and may determine the mobile carrier data relating to a mobile carrier associated with the mobile device. The processor may identify the mobile advertisement data and the mobile advertisement action targeted to the request and the mobile carrier data. The processor may append the mobile advertisement action data to the mobile advertisement data. The processor may provide the mobile advertisement data with the appended mobile advertisement action data to the mobile device via the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind GUPTA, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Patent number: 8644808
    Abstract: A system for providing mobile advertisement actions may include a memory to store a request, mobile carrier data, mobile advertisement data, and mobile advertisement action data. The system may include an interface operatively connected to the memory to communicate with a mobile device. The system may include a processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface. The processor may receive information and a request from the mobile device via the interface and may determine the mobile carrier data relating to a mobile carrier associated with the mobile device. The processor may identify the mobile advertisement data and the mobile advertisement action targeted to the request and the mobile carrier data. The processor may append the mobile advertisement action data to the mobile advertisement data. The processor may provide the mobile advertisement data with the appended mobile advertisement action data to the mobile device via the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Patent number: 8196095
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for facilitating quick mobile website creation by mobile advertisers, including providing access to an advertiser of a mobile marketing application that interfaces with an ad server, wherein the advertiser is authenticated for access to the ad server; enabling the advertiser to input to an interface of the application a plurality of content items selected from the group consisting of a descriptive text, an image, a phone number, and a hyperlink; presenting the advertiser with a go live option; automatically creating the mobile website to include the submitted content items when the go live option is selected, wherein the application facilitates rapid creation by the advertiser of a mobile website having a plurality of web pages, and the mobile website is optimized for mobile delivery; subjecting the created mobile website to a plurality of error checks; and publishing the mobile website to a network through a mobile service provider system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20100312646
    Abstract: A system is described for serving advertisements targeted to geographic areas over mobile devices. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store a request associated with a mobile device, and an advertisement. The processor may be operative to communicate with the mobile device. The mobile device may be associated with a mobile carrier. The processor may receive the request associated with the mobile device and may determine a geographic location associated with the request. The processor may identify an advertisement, the advertisement being targeted to the geographic area and the mobile carrier. The processor may provide the identified advertisement to the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20100023495
    Abstract: A system is described for suggesting keywords to users based on mobile specific attributes. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store a search query. The processor may be operative to communicate with a user on a mobile device. The mobile device may be associated with a mobile carrier. The processor may receive a search query from the user on the mobile device. The processor may identify a mobile specific attribute of the user. The processor may generate a suggested query related to the mobile specific attribute of the user and the search query. The processor may provide the suggested query to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090248486
    Abstract: A system is described for suggesting categories of mobile keywords to revenue generators. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store categories associated with mobile carriers, keywords, and advertisements. The interface may communicate with revenue generators and users. The processor may identify the categories and associate each category with related keywords. The processor may receive advertisements and a selected mobile carrier from a revenue generator. The processor may suggest categories associated with the selected mobile carrier to the revenue generator. The processor may receive selected categories from the revenue generator. The processor may associate the keywords associated with the selected categories with the mobile advertisements and selected mobile carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwan, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090247139
    Abstract: A system is described for adapting online advertising campaigns to incorporate mobile advertising. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store ad groups of an advertiser, and mobile advertisements. An ad group may include keywords and web advertisements. The interface may allow the advertiser to associate the ad groups with mobile carriers. The processor may identify the ad groups and may provide the interface to the advertiser. The processor may receive associations of ad groups and mobile carriers. The processor may create mobile advertisements based on the web advertisements and mobile carriers. The processor may associate the mobile advertisements and the mobile carriers with the ad groups. The processor may provide one of the mobile advertisements to a user when the user performs a mobile search for one of the keywords on a mobile device associated with the mobile carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennet, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090247192
    Abstract: A system is described for mobile advanced matching. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store advertisements and a request. The interface may communicate with a user on a mobile device associated with a mobile carrier. The processor may associate the advertisements with one or more content types. The content types may describe the content of the advertisements. The processor may receive a request for items of a content type from the user via the interface. The processor may identify the content type of the items. The processor may determine an advertisement associated with the content type of the items. The processor may provide the advertisement to the user via the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090247140
    Abstract: A system for providing mobile advertisement actions may include a memory to store a request, mobile carrier data, mobile advertisement data, and mobile advertisement action data. The system may include an interface operatively connected to the memory to communicate with a mobile device. The system may include a processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface. The processor may receive information and a request from the mobile device via the interface and may determine the mobile carrier data relating to a mobile carrier associated with the mobile device. The processor may identify the mobile advertisement data and the mobile advertisement action targeted to the request and the mobile carrier data. The processor may append the mobile advertisement action data to the mobile advertisement data. The processor may provide the mobile advertisement data with the appended mobile advertisement action data to the mobile device via the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090199229
    Abstract: A system is described for providing advertisements across multiple channels. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store advertisements and a request. The interface may be operatively connected to the memory and the processor and may communicate with a user. The processor may be operatively connected to the interface and the memory and may associate the advertisements with channels. An advertisement associated with a channel may be formatted for display on the channel. The processor may receive a request from the user via the interface. The processor may determine the channel associated with the request and retrieve an advertisement associated with the channel. The processor may provide the advertisement to the user via the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090198538
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for filtering mobile ads, including sensing an editorial event from an advertiser user interface, wherein the editorial event comprises an advertiser creating or editing a mobile advertisement listing; enabling submission of the mobile listing multiple channel and carrier attributes; automatically checking the mobile listing with at least one mobile carrier-specific automatic check service in response to the sensed editorial event; determining whether the advertisement listing is flagged for manual review; and sending the mobile listing to a mobile publisher for publishing in response to a determination that the mobile listing is not flagged for manual review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090197581
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing mobile publishers with multiple versions of an advertisement, including enabling an advertiser to create at least two different versions of an advertisement, wherein each version is formatted for display on a mobile device with a predetermined device attribute including a screen attribute, and providing a mobile publisher with the at least two versions of the advertisement for service to a plurality of mobile devices having different screen attributes, at least one of the plurality of mobile devices having a screen attribute corresponding to that of at least one of a plurality of advertisement versions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090197580
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for facilitating quick mobile website creation by mobile advertisers, including providing access to an advertiser of a mobile marketing application that interfaces with an ad server, wherein the advertiser is authenticated for access to the ad server; enabling the advertiser to input to an interface of the application a plurality of content items selected from the group consisting of a descriptive text, an image, a phone number, and a hyperlink; presenting the advertiser with a go live option; automatically creating the mobile website to include the submitted content items when the go live option is selected, wherein the application facilitates rapid creation by the advertiser of a mobile website having a plurality of web pages, and the mobile website is optimized for mobile delivery; subjecting the created mobile website to a plurality of error checks; and publishing the mobile website to a network through a mobile service provider system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090163186
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating a review of mobile advertisement listings is provided. In one implementation, the method may include displaying information in a user interface for reviewing, the information associated with a mobile advertisement listing and at least one carrier, and at least one keyword associated with the mobile advertisement listing. The method may also include displaying in the user interface reviewing rules associated with a carrier for at least one carrier associated with the mobile advertisement listing and receiving an indication via the user interface of whether the mobile advertisement listing is approved for the carrier based on the displayed reviewing rules associated with the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen
  • Publication number: 20090164300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for targeting mobile advertisement listings are provided. In one implementation, the method may include displaying carrier selection options associated with a mobile advertisement listing in a user interface and receiving, via the user interface, carrier selection information for targeting the mobile advertisement listings to selected carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind Gupta, Ashutosh Tiwari, Gopalakrishnan Venkatraman, Dominic Cheung, Stacy R. Bennett, Douglas B. Koen