Patents by Inventor Norman Oro

Norman Oro 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: 9292863
    Abstract: Systems and methods in clued those for serving one or more advertisements contextually-relevant to an initial web page. Terms are selected from the initial web page that may be used as representative keywords to select advertisements that are contextually relevant to the initial web page. Keyword candidates are filtered via a series of operations that include: querying a network for web pages where the one or more keyword candidates are found, filtering the web pages based on time/date characteristics and a pre-defined number of web pages, analyzing the web pages using the one or more keyword candidates, and selecting certain keyword candidates to be representative keywords based on the analysis. The one or more representative keywords may be used to select one or more advertisements that may then be served with the initial web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventor: Norman Oro
  • Publication number: 20130290100
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for serving one or more contextually-relevant advertisements to an initial web page. Terms are selected from the initial web page that may later be used as representative keywords to select advertisements that are contextually relevant to the initial web page. In order to reduce the number of keyword candidates to a manageable number and to improve accuracy, keyword candidates are filtered via a series of operations that include: querying a network for web pages where the one or more keyword candidates are found, filtering the web pages based on time/date characteristics and a pre-defined number of web pages, analyzing the web pages using the one or more keyword candidates, and selecting certain keyword candidates to be representative keywords based on the analysis. The one or more representative keywords may be used to select one or more advertisements that may then be served with the initial web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Norman Oro
  • Patent number: 8463779
    Abstract: Systems and methods include those for serving advertisements contextually-relevant to an initial web page. Terms are selected from an initial web page that may later be used as representative keywords to select advertisements that are contextually relevant to the initial web page. In order to reduce the number of keyword candidates to a manageable number and to improve accuracy, keyword candidates are filtered via a series of operations that include: querying a network for web pages where the one or more keyword candidates are found, filtering the web pages based on time/date characteristics and a pre-defined number of web pages, analyzing the web pages using the one or more keyword candidates, and selecting certain keyword candidates to be representative keywords based on the analysis. The one or more representative keywords may be used to select one or more advertisements that may then be served with the initial web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Norman Oro
  • Publication number: 20090112844
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for serving one or more contextually-relevant advertisements to an initial web page. Terms are selected from the initial web page that may later be used as representative keywords to select advertisements that are contextually relevant to the initial web page. In order to reduce the number of keyword candidates to a manageable number and to improve accuracy, keyword candidates are filtered via a series of operations that include: querying a network for web pages where the one or more keyword candidates are found, filtering the web pages based on time/date characteristics and a pre-defined number of web pages, analyzing the web pages using the one or more keyword candidates, and selecting certain keyword candidates to be representative keywords based on the analysis. The one or more representative keywords may be used to select one or more advertisements that may then be served with the initial web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Norman Oro