Patents by Inventor Yoelle Maarek-Smadja

Yoelle Maarek-Smadja 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: 10031908
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Nadav Golbandi
  • Patent number: 9596205
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for managing mailing list newsletter messages for a recipient user, and organizing such messages in accordance with a receiving user's interests. The present disclosure enables novel organizational tools for emails by intuitively organizing received newsletters and providing highly visible features within a user's inbox respective the newsletters. Organization of received newsletters is ensured through ranking users' mailing lists according to his/her interest in them, based on actions made by the respective user, in addition to actions of other users receiving the same newsletters. Additionally, upon reception of such newsletters, the present disclosure provides a specialized view, in addition to added functionality within a user's inbox, thereby enhancing a user's experience and engagement with received messages of a newsletter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Zohar Karnin, Michal Aharon, Edo Liberty, Yoelle Maarek Smadja
  • Publication number: 20160092432
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Nadav Golbandi
  • Patent number: 9161188
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Nadav Goldbandi
  • Patent number: 9111291
    Abstract: A method and system for providing targeted applications within an electronic message interface. The method comprises retrieving content from a user's electronic message in the electronic message interface, parsing and interpreting the user's context from the content, and accepting bidding on the user's interpreted context from one or more applications, the one or more applications including triggering conditions related to the user's interpreted context. The one or more applications are ranked based on the bidding. The method further comprises loading the one or more applications into the electronic message interface based on the ranking, and providing one or more follow-up transactions associated with the one or more loaded applications based on the user's interpreted context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Lempel, Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Edward Bortnikov, Edo Liberty
  • Publication number: 20150058720
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Nadav Goldbandi
  • Publication number: 20150052203
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for managing mailing list newsletter messages for a recipient user, and organizing such messages in accordance with a receiving user's interests. The present disclosure enables novel organizational tools for emails by intuitively organizing received newsletters and providing highly visible features within a user's inbox respective the newsletters. Organization of received newsletters is ensured through ranking users' mailing lists according to his/her interest in them, based on actions made by the respective user, in addition to actions of other users receiving the same newsletters. Additionally, upon reception of such newsletters, the present disclosure provides a specialized view, in addition to added functionality within a user's inbox, thereby enhancing a user's experience and engagement with received messages of a newsletter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Zohar Karnin, Michal Aharon, Edo Liberty, Yoelle Maarek Smadja
  • Publication number: 20130339137
    Abstract: A method and system for providing targeted applications within an electronic message interface. The method comprises retrieving content from a user's electronic message in the electronic message interface, parsing and interpreting the user's context from the content, and accepting bidding on the user's interpreted context from one or more applications, the one or more applications including triggering conditions related to the user's interpreted context. The one or more applications are ranked based on the bidding. The method further comprises loading the one or more applications into the electronic message interface based on the ranking, and providing one or more follow-up transactions associated with the one or more loaded applications based on the user's interpreted context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Ronny Lempel, Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Edward Bortnikov, Edo Liberty
  • Patent number: 8463827
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards identifying auto-folder tags for messages by using a combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering folder names and features of messages based on relationship strengths. The combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering, generally, groups a plurality of folder names and a plurality of features into one or more metafolders to optimize a cost. The cost is based on an aggregate of cut relationship strengths, where a cut results when a relationship folder name and feature are grouped in separate metafolders. Furthermore, the plurality of folder names and the plurality of features are obtained by monitoring actions of a plurality of users, where the folder names are user generated folder names and features are from a plurality of messages. The metafolders may be used to tag new user messages with an auto-folder tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Vishwanath Tumkur Ramarao, Andrei Broder, Idan Szpektor, Edo Liberty, Yehuda Koren, Mark E. Risher, Yoelle Maarek Smadja
  • Publication number: 20120173533
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards identifying auto-folder tags for messages by using a combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering folder names and features of messages based on relationship strengths. The combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering, generally, groups a plurality of folder names and a plurality of features into one or more metafolders to optimize a cost. The cost is based on an aggregate of cut relationship strengths, where a cut results when a relationship folder name and feature are grouped in separate metafolders. Furthermore, the plurality of folder names and the plurality of features are obtained by monitoring actions of a plurality of users, where the folder names are user generated folder names and features are from a plurality of messages. The metafolders may be used to tag new user messages with an auto-folder tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Vishwanath Tumkur Ramarao, Andrei Broder, Idan Szpektor, Edo Liberty, Yehuda Koren, Mark E. Risher, Yoelle Maarek Smadja
  • Publication number: 20120047014
    Abstract: Techniques for performing user classification based on email are provided. Emails stored in an email store may be analyzed to classify users. Information included in the stored emails may be extracted, and users may be classified into categories according to the extracted information. The extracted information may be analyzed in a manner so as to protect the personal information of the users according to any applicable privacy standards. Any number of types of emails may be analyzed to classify users in any number of ways. For instance, a plurality of commercial emails stored in the email store may be determined The commercial emails may be counted as conversions for an advertising campaign. The commercial emails may be parsed to extract commercial information. The commercial information may be parsed to generate user classification data. The user classification data may be used in various ways, including for targeting users with advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yoelle Maarek Smadja, Andrei Broder, Vanja Josifovski, Melissa B. Stein
  • Patent number: 7809708
    Abstract: A method for searching a corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web, includes defining a knowledge domain and identifying a set of reference documents in the corpus pertinent to the domain. Upon inputting a query, the corpus is searched using the set of reference documents to find one or more of the documents in the corpus that contain information in the domain relevant to the query. The set of reference documents is updated with the found documents that are most relevant to the domain. The updated set is used in searching the corpus for information in the domain relevant to subsequent queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel
  • Publication number: 20080147644
    Abstract: A method for searching a corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web, includes defining a knowledge domain and identifying a set of reference documents in the corpus pertinent to the domain. Upon inputting a query, the corpus is searched using the set of reference documents to find one or more of the documents in the corpus that contain information in the domain relevant to the query. The set of reference documents is updated with the found documents that are most relevant to the domain. The updated set is used in searching the corpus for information in the domain relevant to subsequent queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel
  • Patent number: 7318057
    Abstract: A method for searching a corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web, includes defining a knowledge domain and identifying a set of reference documents in the corpus pertinent to the domain. Upon inputting a query, the corpus is searched using the set of reference documents to find one or more of the documents in the corpus that contain information in the domain relevant to the query. The set of reference documents is updated with the found documents that are most relevant to the domain. The updated set is used in searching the corpus for information in the domain relevant to subsequent queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel
  • Patent number: 7072827
    Abstract: A method for morphological disambiguation includes receiving an input string and morphologically analyzing the string to generate a list of candidate analyses of the string, each candidate analysis including a respective word and a linguistic pattern of the word. The pattern of each of the analyses is evaluated against a predefined criterion in order to select one or more of the analyses from the list. The method is suitable particularly for computerized analysis and searching in Hebrew and other Semitic languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Carmel, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Victoria Skoblikov
  • Patent number: 7035926
    Abstract: A method for monitoring activity on a computer network includes providing a map of a group of resources, which are accessible via the computer network, and tracking access of the resources in the group by computer users, so as to identify one or more of the users with respective resources that they are accessing. An identification of the one or more users and their respectively-accessed resources is registered with the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Doron Cohen, Michal Jacovi, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Vladimir Soroka
  • Patent number: 6874024
    Abstract: A method for monitoring activity on a computer network includes providing a map of a group of resource, which are accessible via the computer network, and tracking access of the resources in the group by computer users, so as to identify one or more of the users with respective resources that they are accessing. An identification of the one or more users and their respectively-accessed resources is registered with the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Doron Cohen, Michal Jacovi, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Sigalit Ur
  • Publication number: 20040205046
    Abstract: A method for indexing text on a personal digital assistant (PDA). The method may include the steps of transferring dynamic documents from the PDA to an off line mediary, creating off-line, from the dynamic documents, a static index and transferring the off-line static index to the PDA. The off-line mediary may be a mediary, such as a desktop, a server, and a web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Doron Cohen, Michael Herscovici, Aya Soffer, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja
  • Publication number: 20040034706
    Abstract: A method for monitoring activity on a computer network includes providing a map of a group of resource, which are accessible via the computer network, and tracking access of the resources in the group by computer users, so as to identify one or more of the users with respective resources that they are accessing. An identification of the one or more users and their respectively-accessed resources is registered with the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Doron Cohen, Michal Jacovi, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Sigalit Ur
  • Publication number: 20040030688
    Abstract: A method for searching a corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web, includes defining a knowledge domain and identifying a set of reference documents in the corpus pertinent to the domain. Upon inputting a query, the corpus is searched using the set of reference documents to find one or more of the documents in the corpus that contain information in the domain relevant to the query. The set of reference documents is updated with the found documents that are most relevant to the domain. The updated set is used in searching the corpus for information in the domain relevant to subsequent queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle Maarek-Smadja, Aya Soffer, Ronny Lempel