By Querying, E.g., Search Engines Or Meta-search Engines, Crawling Techniques, Push Systems, Etc. (epo) Patents (Class 707/E17.108)
  • Patent number: 12112363
    Abstract: A data aggregation and evaluation tool for property evaluation is described. In an example implementation, the system may receive a first user input indicating a preference for a set of attributes via graphical user interface, generate a set of queries associated with the set of attributes, and provide the set of queries to the user via the graphical user interface. The system may receive a second user input to the set of queries and may determine a weight associated with an attribute based on the second input. The system may receive data describing an attribute value of the attribute for a property, score the property using the weight and the attribute value, and alter the graphical user interface based on the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: RENLIGHT INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Austin Hayden, Jeremiah Holms Maughan, Anthony David Fonseca
  • Patent number: 12113778
    Abstract: A communication server, interacting with an organization system having users that wish to communicate securely, provides secure communication capability to the users, without the communication server itself having access to unencrypted content of the user communications or to cryptographic keys that would allow the communication server to derive the unencrypted content. Thus, the communication server that provides the secure communication capability need not itself be trusted by the users with access to communicated content. To achieve this, the various entities communicate to exchange cryptographic keys in such a manner that the communication server never obtains usable copies of the cryptographic keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SYMPHONY COMMUNICATION SERVICES HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Serkan Mulayin, David M'Raihi, Tim Casey, Michael Harmon, Jon McLachlan
  • Patent number: 12086199
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for providing electronic navigation assistance based on data patterns via process tracking graphing. The method includes receiving one or more network navigation inputs completed by a user device associated with a user. The one or more network navigation inputs are indications of navigation between two or more pages on a network. The method also includes comparing the one or more network navigation inputs with one or more previous network navigation indicators. The method further includes determining a user location status based on the comparison of the one or more network navigation inputs with the one or more previous network navigation indicators. The user location status indicates whether the user needs assistance. The method still further includes causing a transmission of an assistance notification to the user device associated with the user based on determining that the user needs assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Joel Reji
  • Patent number: 12069020
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for managing a group mention based on a user behavior condition by mention type. The apparatus includes: a user-designated mention reception portion that receives a user-designated mention including a user-designated identifier and user-designated information about one or more users forming a user group; an unread count calculation portion that identifies the user-designated identifier, distinguishes the mention type of the user-designated mention, and calculates an unread count of the user-designated mention that has not yet been read by a corresponding user based on the user-designated information; and an unread count processing portion that determines the user behavior condition for subtracting the unread count according to the mention type and determines whether to subtract the unread count by detecting a user behavior associated with the user-designated mention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: DELTA PDS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Ho Choi, Seo Hyun Choi
  • Patent number: 12058413
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products that can play a media selection based on an anticipated activity are disclosed herein. One method includes determining, by a processor, an anticipated activity for a user based on one or more actions being currently performed by the user, determining a media selection for the user based on the determined anticipated activity, and playing the determined media selection. Apparatus and computer program products that include hardware and/or software that can perform the methods for playing a media selection based on an anticipated activity are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (United States) Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Delaney, Nathan Peterson, John C. Mese, Arnold Weksler, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 12045703
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method can facilitate delivery of targeted content to user devices in situations in which historic tracking data (e.g., cookie data) is generally unavailable and/or unreliable. A p-dimensional embedding of websites can be generated based on a group of user devices for whom tracking data is available. Conversion event data that indicates indicating whether that audience member performed a conversion action can be received. A machine learning model can be trained using the conversion event data and the positions of websites appearing in the conversion event data within the p-dimensional embedding to predict a likelihood of conversion and/or a type of content to provide given a position in the p-dimensional embedding. When an indication that a user device is accessing a website is received, a position of that website in the p-dimensional embedding can be determined and targeted content can be delivered to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dstillery, Inc.
    Inventors: Amelia Grieve White, Melinda Han Williams, Christopher Allen Jenness, Jason Jerard Kaufman, Evan Bard Hills, Mark Alan Jung
  • Patent number: 12038918
    Abstract: Disambiguity in large language models (LLMs) includes receiving an original query in a user interface, generating an ambiguity query from the original query, and sending, via an application programming interface (API) of an LLM, the ambiguity query to the LLM. The ambiguity query includes the original query and training the LLM to recognize ambiguities. The method further includes receiving, via the API and responsive to the ambiguity query, a binary response and detecting, based at least in part on the binary response, the original query as ambiguous. Disambiguity may include detecting an ambiguity location in the original query using perturbed queries and the LLM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jiaxin Zhang, Kamalika Das, Sricharan Kumar
  • Patent number: 12026036
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing distributed tracing in a computing system comprising a plurality of microservices. An embodiment operates by transmitting, from a first microservice, a request associated with a task to a second microservice. The embodiment generates distributed tracing data associated with the request, comprising: propagating trace context associated with the request between the first microservice and the second microservice; propagating the trace context associated with the request between operators within the first microservice; and propagating the trace context associated with the request between functions within the first microservice or the second microservice. The embodiment receives, from the second microservice, a response associated with the task. The embodiment then ceases, at least based on the response, generating the distributed tracing data associated with the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Xinrong Huang
  • Patent number: 12014250
    Abstract: A machine-learning based artificial intelligence device for finding an estimate of patent quality, such as patent lifetime or term is disclosed. Such a device may receive a first set of patent data and generate a list of binary classifiers. A candidate set of binary classifiers may be selected and using a heuristic search, for example an artificial neural network (ANN), a genetic algorithm, a final set of binary classifiers is found by maximizing iteratively a yield according to a cost function, such an area under a curve (AUC) of a receiver operating characteristic (ROC). The device may then receive patent information for a target patent and report an estimate of patent quality according to the final set of binary classifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: OCEAN TOMO, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Beers, Elvir Causevic
  • Patent number: 12001570
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to resource allocation and rebating during in-flight data masking and on-demand encryption of big data on a network. Computer machine(s), cluster managers, nodes, and/or multilevel platforms can request, receive, and/or authenticate requests for a big data dataset, containing sensitive and non-sensitive data. Profiles can be auto provisioned, and access rights can be assigned. Server configuration and data connection properties can be defined. Secure connection(s) to the data store can be established. Sensitive information can be redacted into a sanitized dataset based on one or more data obfuscation types. RAM requirements and current RAM allocation can be diagnosed. Portion(s) of the current RAM allocation exceeding the RAM requirements can be rebated. The encrypted data can be transmitted, in response to the request, to a source, a target, and/or another computer machine and can be decrypted back into the sanitized dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Pratap Dande, Gilberto Dos Santos, JayaBalaji Murugan
  • Patent number: 11995070
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for error detection and correction of query expressions are provided. The method extracts a first set of queries from a set of programs prior to query editing. A first word set is generated from the first set of queries. A second set of queries are extracted from the set of programs after query editing. A second word set is generated from the second set of queries. The method determines a set of differences for word pairs within the first word set and the second word set. A third word set is generated from one or more edited queries based on the set of differences. The method generates an error report for the third word set based on the third word set and the set of differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakamura, Toshiaki Yasue, Kohichi Ono, Nobuhiro Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11995108
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to present content on an electronic display. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a first candidate content and a second candidate content for presentation on an electronic display, determining a first probability and a second probability that the first candidate content and the second candidate content respectively will elicit a particular type of input response, determining a first weight and a second weight based on the first probability and the second probability respectively, selecting either the first content or the second content based on the first weight and the second weight; and presenting the selected content on the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Brewer, Rodrigo B. Farnham, Nima Khajehnouri, David B. Lue, Zhuo Xu
  • Patent number: 11991179
    Abstract: An information integration system may include a set of integration services embodied on one or more server machines in a computing environment. The set of integration services may include connectors communicatively connected to disparate information systems. The connectors may be configured for integrating data stored in the disparate information systems utilizing a common model employed by the set of integration services. The common model may overlay, augment, integrate, or otherwise utilize a content management interoperability services data model and may include common property definitions and a common security model. The common security model may include permissions particularly defined for use by the set of integration services. These common property definitions and permissions may be uniquely defined and utilized by the information integration system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Jody Hupton Palmer, Alexander Lilko, Steve Molloy
  • Patent number: 11983579
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and techniques for developing APIs that utilize multiple pre-existing APIs. The present disclosure also relates to a user interface that allows for chaining APIs together as a function of multiple pre-existing APIs. The present disclosure also relates to security and authorization of a user to execute one or more APIs as part of an API chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Caudill, Siyuan Chen, Parker Phillips, Samuel Rogerson
  • Patent number: 11984047
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system and method for reviewing and evaluating performance. In particular, the present invention relates to a system, method, and computer program produce for reviewing and evaluating performances of an official or group of officials at an event or events. Even more specifically, according to embodiments of the present invention, the system and method can involve reviewing and evaluating an official or group of official's performance during a sporting event or events, such as a football game or games or a basketball game or games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: RUSTY ACREE, LLC
    Inventor: Russell Acree
  • Patent number: 11969649
    Abstract: Prominent display of a targeted game in search results from a search within an online gaming platform. In some implementations, a server receives a search query from a device. The search query is executed against a data store of available games to obtain search results indicating a set of games. Based on one or more characteristics of the set of games, it is determined whether the search query is directed to a narrow search for a particular game in the set of games. In response to determining such a narrow search, the particular game is designated with a highlight indication, and the search results and highlight indication are transmitted to the device, causing display of a user interface that includes at least a portion of the search results. The highlight indication causes the device to display an identifier of the particular game as highlighted relative to other search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventors: Aswath Manoharan, Eric Holmdahl, Jianan Duan, Nikolaus Sonntag, I-Wu Lu
  • Patent number: 11928122
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for creating query results displays. Parameters for building queries are received from an administrative user (e.g., a designer or operator) or from another source (e.g., another program or a different device). The received queries may be stored in memory for later insertion into a query results display. The system enables one or more queries to be selected to be assigned to a query results display. The selection may also be performed by another application on the same device or be received from another device. When the selection has been received the application may store the assignments to the query results display together with the queries so that, those assignments and the queries can be transmitted to a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Traynham, Pratik H. Patel, Thomas Becker, Bryan Scappini
  • Patent number: 11900328
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for managing reports. A subset of data fields is identified for inclusion in a new report. An intent of the new report is determined based on the subset of data fields. The intent is determined using a set of machine learning models trained from a set of existing reports and a taxonomy of human capital management (HCM) information. Based on the intent determined by the artificial intelligence system, a set of additional fields is predicted for the new report. The set of the additional fields is displayed in a graphical user interface on a display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ADP, Inc.
    Inventor: Allan Barcelos
  • Patent number: 11887168
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for a platform that determines the classification of a physical asset received from a provider. For a physical asset, the platform extracts intrinsic data from the asset and compiles extrinsic data by web scraping data associated with the asset. The platform generates a principal component vector comprising the intrinsic data and extrinsic data and inputs the principal component vector into a machine learning model. The machine-learning model is trained using training data that includes an aggregation of principal components of a physical asset as labeled by a historical classification and a time associated with the entry. The machine-learning model outputs the classification of the physical asset corresponding to a present time. The platform provides the classification to a user in visual association with a representation of the physical asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ALT PLATFORM INC.
    Inventor: Don Goonetilleke
  • Patent number: 11868902
    Abstract: There is a need for more effective and efficient data evaluation. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for data evaluation in accordance with a shared decision tree data object. In one example, a method includes generating, using a plurality of feature extraction threads, shared evidentiary data; generating, based on a selected shared evidentiary data subset of the shared evidentiary data that correspond to one or more selected nodes of the shared decision tree data object, refined evidentiary data; processing the refined evidentiary data in accordance with the shared decision tree data object to generate an evaluation output and an explanation output; and displaying an evaluation output user interface comprising user interface data describing the evaluation output and the explanation output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Optum, Inc.
    Inventor: Ravi Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 11860908
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for quantitatively grouping a set of persons into a plurality of groups of three or more persons using computational clustering, the method including storing a set of data objects corresponding to the set of persons, storing a plurality of attributes corresponding to each data object in the set of data objects, generating a plurality of multidimensional objects by encoding each data object in the set of data objects as a multidimensional object based at least in part on two or more attributes corresponding to that data object, each multidimensional object corresponding to a data object in the set of data objects, and generating the plurality of groups of three or more data objects based at least in part on applying a clustering algorithm to the plurality of multidimensional objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KEEP COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Adrienne Prentice
  • Patent number: 11860974
    Abstract: A system is provided for training an inferential model based on selected training vectors. During operation, the system receives training data comprising observations for a set of time-series signals gathered from sensors in a monitored system during normal fault-free operation. Next, the system divides the observations into N subgroups comprising non-overlapping time windows of observations. The system then selects observations with a local minimum value and a local maximum value for all signals from each subgroup to be training vectors for the inferential model. Finally, the system trains the inferential model using the selected training vectors. Note that by selecting observations with local minimum and maximum values to be training vectors, the system maximizes an operational range for the training vectors, which reduces clipping in estimates subsequently produced by the inferential model and thereby reduces false alarms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guang C. Wang, Kenny C. Gross, Zexi Chen
  • Patent number: 11853107
    Abstract: Techniques are described for dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query. A query, for instance, is based on user input of a query in a natural language (NL) form, e.g., an NL query. Generally, an NL query may include multiple terms and/or phrases that make up a complex query, such as a sentence in a human-readable language. Accordingly, to enable a query result to be generated, the NL query is parsed into multiple logical sections and query contexts are determined for the logical sections. A set of search phases is generated based on the logical sections and the query contexts. The search phases can then be executed in a specific execution order to generate a query result for the NL query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MachEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Panuganty, Chandrasekhar Varada, Gopikrishna Putti
  • Patent number: 11847612
    Abstract: A system is presented that profiles authors and social media data across different media platforms and is capable of determining the author's overall social impact. In one aspect, this is accomplished by using a data retrieval service to trawl various web-sites and social media platforms for information about authors which can then be associated with those authors in a profile database. In one example, an author may post an entry on his/her blog and the data retrieval service can access the profile information of the author, on the blog, where various aspects of the profile information (e.g., real name, employee information, home address) can be matched with candidates in a profile database. From the information gathered, authors can be linked across multiple, different platforms, and an overall social impact of each of the authors can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NASDAQ, INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Chandrasekaran, David Costello, Paul Stubbs
  • Patent number: 11843572
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques can include, by a computing device, responsive to a request for information regarding messages associated with a user and another user, a message associated with the user and the another user, the message sent or received via an application from a plurality of applications. The method can also include, by the computing device, identifying one or more other messages associated with the user and the another user based on metadata of the message, at least one of the one or more other messages sent or received via another application of the plurality of applications, the another application being different than the application. The method can further include, by the computing device, outputting information regarding the one or more other messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenshuang Zhang, Xuan Liu, Zongpeng Qiao, Ke Xu
  • Patent number: 11842045
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for cross input modality learning in a mobile device are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes activating a first modality user input mode in which user inputs by way of a first modality are recognized using a first modality recognizer; and receiving a user input by way of the first modality. The method includes, obtaining, as a result of the first modality recognizer recognizing the user input, a transcription that includes a particular term; and generating an input context data structure that references at least the particular term. The method further includes, transmitting, by the first modality recognizer, the input context data structure to a second modality recognizer for use in updating a second modality recognition model associated with the second modality recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yu Ouyang, Diego Melendo Casado, Mohammadinamul Hasan Sheik, Francoise Beaufays, Dragan Zivkovic, Meltem Oktem
  • Patent number: 11836197
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a search processing method and apparatus based on clipboard data. The method includes: in response to monitoring that the first data obtained from a search box comes from a clipboard, performing an identification process on first data in the search box to obtain a plurality of second data included in the first data and a type of each second data; determining search data corresponding respectively to the plurality of second data according to the type of each second data; displaying the search data corresponding respectively to the plurality of second data and determining target search data according to operations of a user on the search data corresponding respectively to the plurality of second data; and obtaining a search result according to the target search data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junqi Liu
  • Patent number: 11829490
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to resource allocation and rebating during in-flight data masking and on-demand encryption of big data on a network. Computer machine(s), cluster managers, nodes, and/or multilevel platforms can request, receive, and/or authenticate requests for a big data dataset, containing sensitive and non-sensitive data. Profiles can be auto provisioned, and access rights can be assigned. Server configuration and data connection properties can be defined. Secure connection(s) to the data store can be established. Sensitive information can be redacted into a sanitized dataset based on one or more data obfuscation types. RAM requirements and current RAM allocation can be diagnosed. Portion(s) of the current RAM allocation exceeding the RAM requirements can be rebated. The encrypted data can be transmitted, in response to the request, to a source, a target, and/or another computer machine and can be decrypted back into the sanitized dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Pratap Dande, Gilberto Dos Santos, JayaBalaji Murugan
  • Patent number: 11811717
    Abstract: A group message in a messaging group is received. A topic of the group message is determined. One or more recipients of the group message based on the topic of the group message is determined. The recipient is a member of the messaging group. The group message to the determined one or more recipients is transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Nir Rozenbaum
  • Patent number: 11803597
    Abstract: Embodiments of present application provide a data updating method, an apparatus, a search server, a terminal and a storage medium. A search server provides a terminal with a search result webpage including one or more webpages associated with a search keyword, where the search result webpage also includes a pre-stored webpage summary obtained by the search server by crawling webpage content of each webpage in advance; then the terminal crawls a target webpage triggered by a user to obtain a current webpage summary, and the terminal sends comparison information of consistency comparison between the current webpage summary and the pre-stored webpage summary to the search server; and finally the search server updates the pre-stored webpage summary of the target webpage according to the comparison information of the target webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junqi Liu
  • Patent number: 11794116
    Abstract: Session participation in online content streams or activities like multiplayer games is enhanced through management of session tracking and automated queuing of players via a central system between host/streamer client device and guest player client devices. Spectators viewing a content stream or waiting to join a multiplayer activity over a network via a game/streaming service request to be placed in a queue to participate in a session of the content stream or activity as guest players with the host/streaming user. Sessions are tracked to determine start and end events. Sets of prior guest players are removed from sessions when the sessions end, and sets of queued spectators are automatically added to the start of a new session of the content stream or activity as guest players. Queuing may be automatically prioritized for users based on user characteristics, and guest players removed at the end of sessions may be automatically re-queued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ruben Omar Cardona Cruz, Keith R. Kline, Warren Alpert
  • Patent number: 11790907
    Abstract: An agent device that receives, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user, based on the vehicle information, confirms a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and instructs the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Maeda, Chikage Kubo, Keiko Nakano, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 11783373
    Abstract: Systems and methods for targeted advertising to specific consumers are disclosed. A system may include a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive, over a network, consumer data from a client device; identify a plurality of client-provided consumers from the consumer data; obtain a plurality of unique consumer identifiers corresponding to the plurality of client-provided consumers; and identify at least one first overlapping unique consumer identifier by matching at least one of the plurality of client-provided consumers with at least one publisher-provided consumer provided by a first publisher device of a plurality of publisher devices, the first publisher device having a highest priority among the plurality of publisher devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MERKLE, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Randazzo, John Gajewski, John Lee, Nicholas A. Illobre, Dionisio Espinal, Jr., Gerald Matthew Bavaro, Matthew Schultz, Michael Joyce, David Michael Yonchak, Kelly Renee Leger
  • Patent number: 11776011
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a system and method for selecting/recommending ads based on a contextual bandit approach. The disclosed approach leverages various embedding vectors of item, search, page taxonomy trained based on traffic data via advanced deep learning models, and uses model signals (e.g. historical CTR, item price, rating, quality) from other ad placements. The learning mechanism on top of the current methodology to automatic chooses the best feature sets and adjust model performance over time. The contextual bandit model performs better with respect to CTR than the Thompson Sampling model, and achieves lower regret and faster convergence over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Peng Yang, Dong Xu, Yue Guo
  • Patent number: 11775736
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for providing a mini-map in a chatroom. A mini-map providing method including displaying a first portion in a sequence of contents included in instant messages sent and received through a session corresponding to a chatroom on a message display region of a screen for displaying the chatroom, displaying a second portion that includes the first portion in the sequence of contents on a mini-map display region on the screen for displaying the chatroom, and interacting with the message display region and the mini-map display region may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sangmo Goo, Min Hwang, Yubin Kim, Jihun Im, Jay Lee, Yeon Jin Jin
  • Patent number: 11775603
    Abstract: A source system receives an indication to suppress a listing associated with an entity, wherein the indication is based at least in part on a confidence score from the source system indicating that the listing is a duplicate of a representative listing. A list of a provider systems that provide search results including the listing associated with the entity is identified. A first provider system is searched for a first listing matching the listing associated with the entity. The source system receives from the first provider system, a provider-supplied external identifier associated with the first listing. A request to suppress is transmitted to the first listing from a search result generated in response to a search request submitted via the first provider system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Yext, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard C. Lerman, Thomas C. Dixon, Kevin Caffrey, David C. Lin
  • Patent number: 11768865
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for storing and retrieving tags. Each tag is associated with a resource, upon a user's request. A tagging GUI is displayed which presents the available tags for one particular resource and/or a tag cloud GUI is displayed which presents tags for more than one resource. The tagging GUI allows to assign new tags to single resources. The tag cloud GUI enables users to search for resources which have been assigned certain tags. In the tag cloud GUI the relevancy of each single tag is visually reflected by its weighting factor which is determined by the frequency of occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hendrik Haddorp, Timo Kussmaul, Stephan Laertz, Andreas Nauerz
  • Patent number: 11768905
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and computer readable medium for automatically generating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from schema and semantics of an organizational structure. The semantically intelligent URL conveys knowledge about content it accompanies by defining patterns of possible URL parameters within an organizational structure of related content stored in a database, each pattern being represented by entities and semantic information formed of attributes and relationships. The patterns of the URL organize categories of information and form relationships among the entities. The patterns are used for automatically generating a URL along with semantic information about the content in a resource or web page, wherein said semantic information explains the content, such as with attributes of entities, such as in a name value pair that correlates to the content of a page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Bootstrap Collective LLC
    Inventor: Steve Raymond
  • Patent number: 11754857
    Abstract: Authentication of a user is based on an electronic contact lens that contains a retinal scanner. The retinal scanner captures a retinal scan, which is used to authenticate the user (i.e., what a person is). The contact lens itself may also be used in the authentication process (i.e., what a person has). Authentication based on these two factors are used to control access to assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventor: Morrison Ulman
  • Patent number: 11756049
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are generally described for detecting evasive terms in item listings. In some examples, a first list of terms is determined. Terms of the first list of terms may be associated with evasive listing practices. In various examples, a first embedding representing a first term in an embedding space may be determined. In some examples, the top k closest embeddings in the embedding space to the first embedding may be determined. A term associated with one of the top k embeddings may be determined. A first Levenshtein distance between the first term and the second term may be determined. A list of items associated with the second term may be determined based on the Levenshtein distance being less than a threshold distance. An alert related to the list of items may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Ravi Shankar
  • Patent number: 11755667
    Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to receive or obtain, responsive to transmitting the one or more search terms to a search entity, one or more primary content items that include messages that accord with the one or more search terms. The method may additionally include parsing the messages that accord with the one or more search terms to detect one or more relevant secondary search terms and obtaining secondary content items that accord with the one or more relevant secondary search terms. The method may further include generating signals to represent a report of entities that accord with the one or more relevant secondary search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Prove Identity, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Goel, Tarun Bansal, Aditya Khurjekar, Nicolo Petrone, Mehul Desai
  • Patent number: 11755578
    Abstract: Controlling the timing of an execution of a database query for test purposes includes: receiving the database query, the database query comprising control code; the control code causing a database management system to control the timing of the execution of the database query within the database management system; executing the database query within the database management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Knut Stolze, Reinhold Geiselhart, Felix Beier, Luis Eduardo Oliveira Lizardo
  • Patent number: 11734248
    Abstract: In some examples, a first computing device may receive, from a second computing device, partition mapping information indicating partitions of a metadata database. The first computing device may be able to communicate with a plurality of metadata nodes, each metadata node maintaining a portion of the metadata database based on the partitioning of the metadata database to distribute the metadata database across the plurality of metadata nodes. The first computing device may determine to send a request to the metadata database based at least on key information. The first computing device may determine, based on the partition mapping information, a first metadata node of the plurality of metadata nodes indicated to maintain a partition of the metadata database corresponding to the key information. The first computing device, may send, to the first metadata node, based on the partition mapping information, a request to perform a database operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI VANTARA LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Todd, Walter Wohler
  • Patent number: 11727496
    Abstract: An enhanced social network module associated with an entity may create a social network for an individual, group, and/or organization. The module may then use the social network to determine risk associated with insuring a member of the social network. The determined risk may be used to calculate a rate for insuring the member. Additional features of the module may allow for the calculation of a group rate for insuring all members of the social network, the calculation of various centrality measures for each member of the social network, the calculation of a trust score for any given member, and the ability to poll members of the social network to determine various characteristics of any given member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Thomas Warden, Christian Peccei
  • Patent number: 11720742
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting webpages that share malicious content are presented. A first set of webpages that hosts a web account checker is identified. A baseline page structure score and a baseline language score are calculated based on the identified first set of webpages. Content from a second set of webpages is collected and analyzed based on the calculated baseline page structure and the calculated baseline language scores. One or more of the second set of webpages is flagged as malicious based on the analyzing of the content collected from the second set of webpages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinjith Nagaraja, Meethil Vijay Yadav, Bradley Wardman
  • Patent number: 11691085
    Abstract: Session participation in online content streams or activities like multiplayer games is enhanced through management of session tracking and automated queuing of players via a central system between host/streamer client device and guest player client devices. Spectators viewing a content stream or waiting to join a multiplayer activity over a network via a game/streaming service request to be placed in a queue to participate in a session of the content stream or activity as guest players with the host/streaming user. Sessions are tracked to determine start and end events. Sets of prior guest players are removed from sessions when the sessions end, and sets of queued spectators are automatically added to the start of a new session of the content stream or activity as guest players. Queuing may be automatically prioritized for users based on user characteristics, and guest players removed at the end of sessions may be automatically re-queued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ruben Omar Cardona Cruz, Keith R. Kline, Warren Alpert
  • Patent number: 11687873
    Abstract: A system for automated material master data harmonization that is extremely configurable and easy-to-use solution to standardize, normalize, attribute, rationalize and enrich the organization's material master data using embedded knowledge that leverages enterprise knowledge assets. The system provides various customer centric systems and processes by providing harmonization of data with dependencies of important embodiments such as data classification and MFR-MPN extraction that are not dependent on any other stage. Attribute extraction is dependent on data classification and data sheet definition. Post processing is dependent on data classification, data sheet definition and attributes extraction. Identify L2 dups is dependent on data classification, data sheet definition, attribute extraction and post processing. Non-Source enrichment and Identify L1 dups are dependent on MFR-MPN extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Verdantis Inc.
    Inventors: Digesh Panchal, Nitin Patil, Amit Shinde
  • Patent number: 11675841
    Abstract: A search engine optimizer which works independently and in parallel with a browser and search engine supercomputer to gather, analyze, and distill input information interactively. The optimizer reorganizes the input, and providing an optimized version as an output. The optimized version of the input (e.g. output) is sent to the search engine which responds to the end user with search results. The optimizer recognizes each request as a pattern and stores the pattern in an advanced Glyph format. This permits the optimizer to identify a left and ride side check mate combination required to achieve certitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Paiz
  • Patent number: 11676587
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a device for implementing a voice application and a computer readable storage medium, which determine a feedback content and a template identifier corresponding to a voice command of a user on a server side, and the determination result is performed by the IoT device. As the Internet information is iteratively updated, the voice command is also updated, the processing function of the voice command can be updated on the server side, so that the voice application in the IoT device does not need to be updated. Therefore, the processing capability of the voice application can be updated without upgrading the voice application itself, thereby alleviating the problem of an excessively long upgrade process due to the OTA upgrade process in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long Zhang, Ye Song
  • Patent number: 11663645
    Abstract: A category recommender system includes a computing device configured to obtain customer information characterizing a customer's interactions on an ecommerce marketplace. The computing device is further configured to determine discovery category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, determine repeat category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, and determine item rankings for each item in the ecommerce marketplace based on the customer information. The computing device is further configured to merge the discovery category rankings, the repeat category rankings and the item recommendation rankings into final recommendations based on one or more predetermined merging criteria and provide the final recommendations to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Victor Anthony Perry, IV, Prashant Chandrakant Saundade, Stephen Dean Guo, Evren Korpeoglu, Kannan Achan, Sandhya Ajit