Patents by Inventor Zachary D. Jones

Zachary D. Jones 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: 11941668
    Abstract: A system for training a bidding model comprising: a plurality of tactics stored on at least one database; a plurality of hyperparameters; in response to an available inventory from a publisher relayed through a real time bid server, computing a bid on the available inventory; sending the bid to the real time bid server; receiving an auction result in response to the bid; calculating a plurality of rewards based on the auction result and the tactics; calculate a plurality of q values based on the rewards; calculate a plurality of losses; backpropogating the losses through the bidding model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Zeta Global Corp.
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D. Jones, David Rose
  • Publication number: 20230350960
    Abstract: The subject technology identifies a series of journey event types in an online user journey, the event types including an impression event, an email event, a click event, and a website visit, and assigns an encoder to each event type. Using an assigned encoder, the technology encodes each event type to generate an encoded vector for each event type. The encoded vector is representative of at least a portion of the online user journey relating to that event type. The technology generates an encoded vector for each event type to create a set of encoded vectors, the set of encoded vectors including one or more of an impression event encoded vector, an email event encoded vector, a click event encoded vector, and a website visit encoded vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D. Jones
  • Patent number: 11727073
    Abstract: The subject technology identifies a series of journey event types in an online user journey, the event types including an impression event, an email event, a click event, and a website visit, and assigns an encoder to each event type. Using an assigned encoder, the technology encodes each event type to generate an encoded vector for each event type. The encoded vector is representative of at least a portion of the online user journey relating to that event type. The technology generates an encoded vector for each event type to create a set of encoded vectors, the set of encoded vectors including one or more of an impression event encoded vector, an email event encoded vector, a click event encoded vector, and a website visit encoded vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Zeta Global Corp.
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D. Jones
  • Publication number: 20230206285
    Abstract: A system for training a bidding model comprising: a plurality of tactics stored on at least one database; a plurality of hyperparameters; in response to an available inventory from a publisher relayed through a real time bid server, computing a bid on the available inventory; sending the bid to the real time bid server; receiving an auction result in response to the bid; calculating a plurality of rewards based on the auction result and the tactics; calculate a plurality of q values based on the rewards; calculate a plurality of losses; backpropogating the losses through the bidding model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D. Jones, David Rose
  • Patent number: 11645679
    Abstract: A system for training a bidding model comprising: a plurality of tactics stored on at least one database; a plurality of hyperparameters; in response to an available inventory from a publisher relayed through a real time bid server, computing a bid on the available inventory; sending the bid to the real time bid server; receiving an auction result in response to the bid; calculating a plurality of rewards based on the auction result and the tactics; calculate a plurality of q values based on the rewards; calculate a plurality of losses; backpropogating the losses through the bidding model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Zeta Global Corp.
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D Jones, David Rose
  • Publication number: 20220351251
    Abstract: A method comprises: collecting data including combinations of images and accompanying text and user feedback of the combinations; building training data sets based on the collected data; training a plurality of neural networks using the training data; generating a creative feature vector based on a specified image using a first network of the trained plurality of neural networks; generating a target audience vector based on a specified target audience using a second network of the trained plurality of networks; generating a sequence of words based on the vectors using a third network of the plurality of trained neural networks; and transmitting the generated sequence of words and the specified image to the target audience over a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D. Jones
  • Publication number: 20220309117
    Abstract: The subject technology identifies a series of journey event types in an online user journey, the event types including an impression event, an email event, a click event, and a website visit, and assigns an encoder to each event type. Using an assigned encoder, the technology encodes each event type to generate an encoded vector for each event type. The encoded vector is representative of at least a portion of the online user journey relating to that event type. The technology generates an encoded vector for each event type to create a set of encoded vectors, the set of encoded vectors including one or more of an impression event encoded vector, an email event encoded vector, a click event encoded vector, and a website visit encoded vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D. Jones
  • Publication number: 20220027953
    Abstract: A system for selecting an expanded audience comprising: a seed audience; an elastic profile store comprising a plurality of consumer profiles each of the consumer profiles comprising a consumer identifier and consumer characteristics wherein the seed audience is matched in the elastic profile store to select a plurality of seed profiles and at least one candidate profile; at least one encoder engine to encode the seed profiles and the candidate profile to output a plurality of encoded seed profiles and an encoded candidate profile; an aggregator engine to receive the encoded seed profiles to determine similar characteristics; a matching engine to match characteristics from the encoded candidate profile with the characteristics from the encoded seed profiles; a threshold engine to determine whether the encoded candidate profile has sufficient similarity to the encoded seed profiles; and in response to a determination by the threshold engine to keep the candidate profile, inclusion of the candidate user id in a
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Zachary D Jones, Danny Portman
  • Publication number: 20220020065
    Abstract: A system for training a bidding model comprising: a plurality of tactics stored on at least one database; a plurality of hyperparameters; in response to an available inventory from a publisher relayed through a real time bid server, computing a bid on the available inventory; sending the bid to the real time bid server; receiving an auction result in response to the bid; calculating a plurality of rewards based on the auction result and the tactics; calculate a plurality of q values based on the rewards; calculate a plurality of losses; backpropogating the losses through the bidding model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Danny Portman, Zachary D. Jones, David Rose