Patents by Inventor Malcolm Slaney
Malcolm Slaney 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: 8522274Abstract: A method for displaying interactive advertisements on a television having a controller connected thereto and configured for receiving input from a viewer of the television is disclosed. The controller has a receiver operable to receive advertisements and a processor operable to modify the advertisements. The method generally comprises requesting action by the viewer of the television, modifying an advertisement based on the action of the viewer, and displaying the modified advertisement on the television.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Interval Licensing LLCInventors: Malcolm Slaney, Bonnie M. Johnson, Annarosa Tomasai, Steven E. Saunders, J. Thomas Ngo, Gavin Miller, Michele M. Covell, Paul A. Freiberger
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Publication number: 20130160038Abstract: Methods and system for identifying multimedia content streaming through a television includes retrieving an audio signal from a multimedia content selected for rendering at the television. The retrieved audio signal is partitioned into a plurality of segments of small intervals. A particular segment is analyzed to identify acoustic modulation and to generate a distinct vector for the particular segment based on the acoustic modulation, wherein the vector defines a unique fingerprint of the particular segment of the audio signal. A content database on a server is queried using the vector of the particular segment to obtain content information for multimedia content that matches the fingerprint of the particular segment. The content information is used to identify the multimedia content and the source of the multimedia content that matches the audio signal received for rendering.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, Andres Hernandez Schafhauser
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Patent number: 8433993Abstract: Methods and system for rendering context aware multimedia content include identifying a plurality of multimedia content that is uploaded for rendering. The uploaded multimedia content is examined to determine metadata associated with each of the plurality of multimedia contents. Contextual information associated with the metadata is identified and a grouping of the multimedia content into a plurality of groups is performed based on the contextual information. Each of the plurality of groups is then integrated into one or more photo stories. The photo stories are defined and rendered as content rich documents.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Kilian Quirin Weinberger, Malcolm Slaney
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Patent number: 8417573Abstract: An online music system includes a music database configured to store musical selections and to store a user profile for respective users of the online music system, an advertiser account management system to store bid amounts from advertisers seeking to provide information to the users of the online music system and a user recommendation system coupled to the music database to present information about musical selections to respective users based on the stored user profile and the stored bid amounts.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, Dennis Martin DeCoste, Ian C. Rogers, Michael Spiegelman
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Publication number: 20130086608Abstract: A method for displaying interactive advertisements on a television having a controller connected thereto and configured for receiving input from a viewer of the television is disclosed. The controller has a receiver operable to receive advertisements and a processor operable to modify the advertisements. The method generally comprises requesting action by the viewer of the television, modifying an advertisement based on the action of the viewer, and displaying the modified advertisement on the television.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Interval Licensing LLCInventors: Malcolm Slaney, Bonnie M. Johnson, Annarosa Tomasi, Steven E. Saunders, Tom Ngo, Gavin Miller, Michele M. Covell, Paul A. Freiberger
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Patent number: 8406531Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to using image data and contextual data to determine information about a scene, based on one or more previously obtained images. Contextual data, such location of image capture, can be used to determine previously obtained images related to the contextual data and other location-related information, such as billboard locations. With even low resolution devices, such as cell phone, image attributes, such as a histogram or optically recognized characters, can be compared between the previously obtained images and the newly captured image. Attributes matching within a predefined threshold indicate matching images. Information on the content of matching previously obtained images can be provided back to a user who captured the new image. User profile data can refine the content information. The content information can also be used as search terms for additional searching or other processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Arun Ramanujapuram, Malcolm Slaney
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Patent number: 8407230Abstract: The systems and methods described create a mathematical representation of each of the media objects for which user ratings are known. The mathematical representations take into account the subjective rating value assigned by a user to the respective media object and the user that assigned the rating value. The media object with the mathematical representation closest to that of the seed media object is then selected as the most similar media object to the seed media object. In an embodiment, the mathematical representation is a vector representation in which each user is a different dimension and each user's rating value is the magnitude of the vector in that dimension. Similarity between two songs is determined by identifying the closest vectors to that of the seed song. Closeness may be determined by subtracting or by calculating the dot product of each of the vectors with that of the seed media object.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, William White
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Patent number: 8396876Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards identifying authoritative sources of multimedia content useable in rank ordering class-dependent search-query results of multimedia content. In one embodiment, a citation model is employed for measuring or otherwise determining a strength of an authority to a content source. In one embodiment, a directed graph is constructed over a network of sources based on a propensity of one source to “cite” content provided by another source. In one embodiment, a random walk may be conducted across the network of sources to arrive at authority scores for each source in the network. In another embodiment, a machine-learning algorithm may be used to arrive at authority scores. The authority scores may then be applied for ranking, for example, search-query results, and/or retrieval purposes.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Lyndon Kennedy, Malcolm Slaney
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Publication number: 20120233638Abstract: A method for displaying interactive advertisements on a television having a controller connected thereto and configured for receiving input from a viewer of the television is disclosed. The controller has a receiver operable to receive advertisements and a processor operable to modify the advertisements. The method generally comprises requesting action by the viewer of the television, modifying an advertisement based on the action of the viewer, and displaying the modified advertisement on the television.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: Interval Licensing LLCInventors: Malcolm Slaney, Bonnie Johnson, Annarosa Tomasi, Steven E. Saunders, Tom Ngo, Gavin Miller, Michele M. Covell, Paul Freiberger
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Publication number: 20120136853Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards identifying authoritative sources of multimedia content useable in rank ordering class-dependent search-query results of multimedia content. In one embodiment, a citation model is employed for measuring or otherwise determining a strength of an authority to a content source. In one embodiment, a directed graph is constructed over a network of sources based on a propensity of one source to “cite” content provided by another source. In one embodiment, a random walk may be conducted across the network of sources to arrive at authority scores for each source in the network. In another embodiment, a machine-learning algorithm may be used to arrive at authority scores. The authority scores may then be applied for ranking, for example, search-query results, and/or retrieval purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: Yahoo Inc.Inventors: Lyndon Kennedy, Malcolm Slaney
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Patent number: 8185923Abstract: A method for displaying interactive advertisements on a television having a controller connected thereto and configured for receiving input from a viewer of the television is disclosed. The controller has a receiver operable to receive advertisements and a processor operable to modify the advertisements. The method generally comprises requesting action by the viewer of the television, modifying an advertisement based on the action of the viewer, and displaying the modified advertisement on the television.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Interval Licensing LLCInventors: Malcolm Slaney, Bonnie M. Johnson, Annarosa Tomasi, Steven E. Saunders, J. Thomas Ngo, Gavin Miller, Michele M. Covell, Paul A. Freiberger
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Patent number: 8050960Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for recommendations based on adoption curve. A method includes tracking over a period of time user popularity of a media content using a web service residing in a server, the popularity and period of time representing a life cycle of each of the media content. The method tracks over the period of time users enrolled in the web service and when in the period of time each of the users adopted the tracked media content and associates adopted media content with user profiles representing the users. The method recommends media content associated with a first user who adopted the tracked media content earlier in the period of time to a second user who may want to adopt the tracked media content subsequently in the period of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, Eric Gottschalk, Todd M. Beaupre
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Publication number: 20110125868Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for temporal modification of audio signals, to increase or reduce the playback rates of an audio and/or a video file in a client-server environment. The system and method improve the efficiency of serving streaming media to a client so that the client can select an arbitrary time-speedup factor. The speedup system performs many of the pre-calculations once, at the server, so that the bandwidth needs are reduced and the client's computational load is minimized. The final time-scale-modification can be either done completely on the server, thus reducing the client's needs, or partly on the client's computer to minimize latency, and to reduce on-the-fly computational load from the server that serves multiple clients concurrently.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Arnon Amir, Malcolm Slaney
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Patent number: 7921445Abstract: A system and a corresponding method for temporal modification of audio signals, to increase or reduce the playback rates of an audio and/or a video file in a client-server environment. The system and method improve the efficiency of serving streaming media to a client so that the client can select an arbitrary time-speedup factor. The speedup system performs many of the pre-calculations once, at the server, so that the bandwidth needs are reduced and the client's computational load is minimized. The final time-scale-modification can be either done completely on the server, thus reducing the client's needs, or partly on the client's computer to minimize latency, and to reduce on-the-fly computational load from the server that serves multiple clients concurrently.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arnon Amir, Malcolm Slaney
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Publication number: 20110055238Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for generating non-overlapping facets for an original query that is submitted for a search.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, Aaron Wheeler
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Publication number: 20110029561Abstract: A search engine determines a set of other images that are similar to a user-selected image, and presents those other images to the user. In determining whether two images are sufficiently similar to each other to merit presentation of one, the search engine determines a Euclidean distance between separate feature vectors that are associated with each of the images. Each such vector indicates diverse types of information that is known about the associated image. The types of information included within such a vector may include attributes that reflect visual characteristics that are visible in an image, verbal tags that have been associated with the image users in a community of users, concepts derived from those tags, coordinates that reflect a geographic location at which a camera that produced the image was when the camera produced the image, and concepts related to groups with which the image is associated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, Kilian Quirin Weinberger, Kaushal Kurapati, Sriram J. Sathish, Polly Ng
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Patent number: 7882124Abstract: A method for expanding a query to include additional terms associated through visual content is provided. A bipartite graph is constructed based on a database of visual content and associated textual content. One partition of the bipartite graph contains visual content and the other partition of the bipartite graph contains textual content. Weighted edges between nodes in the two partitions represent associations between the visual content and textual content in the database. Random walks on the bipartite graph are performed to derive probabilistic association scores between textual content that are indirectly associated with each other through visual content. The query is expanded to include additional terms whose equivalent textual content is highly associated with the query's equivalent textual content.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, Srinivasan H. Sengamedu
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Publication number: 20100332958Abstract: Methods and system for rendering context aware multimedia content include identifying a plurality of multimedia content that is uploaded for rendering. The uploaded multimedia content is examined to determine metadata associated with each of the plurality of multimedia contents. Contextual information associated with the metadata is identified and a grouping of the multimedia content into a plurality of groups is performed based on the contextual information. Each of the plurality of groups is then integrated into one or more photo stories. The photo stories are defined and rendered as content rich documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Kilian Quirin Weinberger, Malcolm Slaney
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Patent number: 7860862Abstract: Recommendation systems and methods are disclosed that objectively determine similarities between products and quantify diversity between products for use in generating recommendations. The product interests, such as musical interests, of a user are measured based on objective characteristics of the product. Then the interests are modeled by a distribution. The resulting distribution is then used as a measure of the diversity of the user's tastes. Based on the diversity and the characteristics of other products, recommendations are then made to the user. The systems and methods may also utilize subjective information as a secondary filter to add or remove products for which such data is known.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, William White
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Patent number: 7849092Abstract: The systems and methods described create a mathematical representation of each of the media objects for which user ratings are known. The mathematical representations take into account the subjective rating value assigned by a user to the respective media object and the user that assigned the rating value. The media object with the mathematical representation closest to that of the seed media object is then selected as the most similar media object to the seed media object. In an embodiment, the mathematical representation is a vector representation in which each user is a different dimension and each user's rating value is the magnitude of the vector in that dimension. Similarity between two songs is determined by identifying the closest vectors to that of the seed song. Closeness may be determined by subtracting or by calculating the dot product of each of the vectors with that of the seed media object.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2007Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Slaney, William White