Patents by Inventor Joshua Attenberg

Joshua Attenberg 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: 20110054999
    Abstract: An improved system and method for predicting user navigation within sponsored search advertisements is provided. A list of sponsored advertisements for display on a web page of search results may be received. A click prediction classifier may be applied to predict a click probability of each sponsored advertisement and a dwell time prediction classifier may be applied to predict a dwell time probability on web pages of a website of each sponsored advertisement. A probability of user navigation may be predicted for each sponsored advertisement using a probability of a click on each sponsored advertisement and a probability of a dwell time on web pages of a website of each sponsored advertisement. The list of the sponsored advertisements may be ranked in part by the probability of user navigation and served to a web browser executing on a client device for display on a web page of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Attenberg, Sandeep Pandey, Torsten Suel