Patents by Inventor Yan

Yan 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: 20150178790
    Abstract: A system for adjusting reserve price for impressions of non-guaranteed delivery (“NDG”) advertising auctions includes a processor configured to retrieve a reserve price set by a publisher for an impression that is fillable by eligible advertisements to be streamed to users in a display content stream; and to retrieve user engagement information for users that engage the eligible advertisements. A statistical analyzer applies a statistical function to the user engagement information of an identified advertisement of the eligible advertisements, to generate a user engagement statistic for the identified advertisement related to a user engagement level. A reserve price adjuster dynamically adjusts the reserve price for the identified advertisement responsive to a value of the user engagement statistic, where the adjusted reserve price for the identified advertisement is different than the reserve price for at least another of the eligible advertisements based on different user engagement levels for each.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Xing Yi, Yan, Jean-Marc Langlois, Prabhakar Krishnamurthy