EXPLORATION FOR SEARCH ADVERTISING
Granted: March 14, 2019
Application Number:
20190080348
A system and method enable exploration of cold ads in an online information system. Cold ads are ads that are new to the system and do not yet have reliable click through rate (CTR) estimates or click probabilities. The method and system selectively boost the click probabilities of cold ads to increase their likelihood of participating in and winning an auction so that the cold ad get more impressions, but without adversely affecting revenue in a production environment when cold ads are…
VOICE EXTRACTION DEVICE, VOICE EXTRACTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: March 7, 2019
Application Number:
20190074030
A voice extraction device according to the present invention includes a formation unit, an acquisition unit, an emphasis unit, a generation unit, and a selection unit. The formation unit forms directivity through beam-forming processing for each microphone in a microphone array including a plurality of microphones that form a plurality of channels. The acquisition unit acquires an observation signal that is a signal of voice received by each of the channels. The emphasis unit generates…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: March 7, 2019
Application Number:
20190074004
An information processing device according to the present application includes an extraction unit and a subsequent stage generation unit. The extraction unit extracts a last conversation of a feedback utterance estimated to indicate a predetermined reaction of a second utterance subject relative to an utterance made by a first utterance subject, from a set of a plurality of conversations, based on a score assigned to the feedback utterance. The subsequent stage generation unit generates…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 24, 2019
Application Number:
20190028833
An information processing device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires time-series position information acquired by a terminal device. The determination unit determines whether relation between one or more pieces of interest position information included in the time-series position information acquired by the acquisition unit and prior or posterior position information in time series satisfies a…
DETERMINATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF DETERMINATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 17, 2019
Application Number:
20190019219
According to one aspect of an embodiment a determination apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a notification, indicating that a user has visited a certain facility, from a terminal apparatus having a notification function that outputs the notification when the user visits the facility. The determination apparatus includes an estimation unit that estimates, on the basis of a statistical relation between a history of number of the notifications and a history of a using state…
LEARNING DEVICE, GENERATION DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 3, 2019
Application Number:
20190005399
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of input information of different classifications. The learning device includes a learning unit that learns a model as a model when the pieces of input information are inputted, outputs a plurality of pieces of output information corresponding to the respective pieces of input information. The model includes a plurality of encoding parts that generate pieces of…
ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: December 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180364047
An estimation device includes a detecting unit that detects acceleration; an acquiring unit that acquires a feature value that is based on the acceleration; and an estimation unit that estimates a speed based on a limit value of the feature value.
ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: October 18, 2018
Application Number:
20180300389
An estimation device according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and an estimation unit. The acquiring unit acquires user relationship information indicating a similarity relationship between a plurality of users. The estimation unit estimates, based on feeling information on a similar user who is similar to one of the users in the user relationship information acquired by the acquiring unit, a feeling of the one of the users.
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180270172
An information processing device according to the present application includes an interaction unit, a detection unit, and a change unit. The interaction unit performs interaction through dialogue with a user of a terminal device using the terminal device. The detection unit detects a transition of an aspect of the interaction. The change unit changes a mode of the interaction performed by the interaction unit when the detection unit detects the transition of the aspect.
AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180270213
An authentication apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, a second specifying unit, and an authentication unit. The acquiring unit acquires context information on a target user who becomes a target for authentication. The first specifying unit specifies a belonging cluster based on information related to a plurality of cluster groups and the context information on the target user, in each of the plurality of the cluster groups.…
GENERATING DEVICE, GENERATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180268816
A generating device includes an accepting unit that accepts a speech of a user. The generating device includes a generating unit that, by inputting the speech of the user to a single model in which a group of parameters are learned simultaneously to output a response directly from a speech, generates a response to the speech.
DETERMINATION METHOD, DETERMINATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180268443
A determination method according to the present application comprises predicting, based on information related to a predetermined ad spot that is displayed on a terminal device, amount-of-money information that is related to a billing amount billed to a first type advertisement distribution server, which has a predetermined relationship with content that includes the ad spot, when a first advertisement distributed by the first type advertisement distribution server is displayed on the ad…
CALCULATION APPARATUS, CALCULATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180268437
A calculation apparatus includes an accepting unit that accepts, from a set-up person, a budget amount that is a maximum amount of compensation for distribution of information. The calculation apparatus includes a calculating unit that calculates, in accordance with the budget amount, the number of users who become the distribution destination of the information.
ANALYSIS DEVICE, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180268307
An analysis device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determiner. The acquisition unit acquires an evaluation value for evaluating an action taken by a user who has viewed an electronic page containing summary information of content. The determiner determines an improvement parameter preferable as a summary parameter to be used when the content is converted into the summary information, based on a summary parameter used in the conversion and the…
ONLINE USER SPACE EXPLORATION FOR RECOMMENDATION
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180268073
To maximize the accuracy and efficiency of predicting users that will enjoy targeted content, a proposed content selection solution looks to combine a first strategy of utilizing selection rules with a second strategy of utilizing machine based learning models. By combining the selection rules-based approach and the machine learning model-based approach, the proposed content selection solution is able to consider and recommend a wider range of users for each available content.
INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: September 20, 2018
Application Number:
20180267992
An information processing system includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first information about the content of a content item, a second acquisition unit that acquires second information about a location of a user who has accessed the content item, and a deriving unit that derives third information based on the first information acquired by the first acquisition unit and the second information acquired by the second acquisition unit, the third information associating a factor…
METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MULTIPLE DEVICES BELONGING TO THE SAME GROUP
Granted: August 30, 2018
Application Number:
20180248844
The technologies described herein identify multiple electronic devices belonging to the same group. A computer system receives, from network accessing applications of a plurality of electronic devices, internet protocol (IP) trajectory information about the network accessing applications via a network. The IP trajectory information includes a user identifier, a list of IP addresses associated with each of the network accessing applications, and timestamps specifying times each of the…
PROVISION DEVICE, PROVISION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: August 23, 2018
Application Number:
20180240146
According to one aspect of an embodiment a provision device includes a generation unit that generates a distributed representation of each context on the basis of a relative connection that multiple contexts have. The provision device includes a provision unit that provides information representing a change between a distributed representation of a given context that is generated before distribution information about the given context is distributed and a distributed representation of…
PROVISION DEVICE, PROVISION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: August 23, 2018
Application Number:
20180239790
According to one aspect of an embodiment a provision device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a context representing a leading index to lead an impression of a given context. The provision device includes a specifying unit that specifies, from distributed representations of respective contexts that are generated on the basis of a relative connection multiple contexts have, other distributed representations having a given connection with a distributed representation of the given…
DETERMINATION METHOD, DETERMINATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: August 16, 2018
Application Number:
20180232780
A determination method according to the present application comprises acquiring a first advertisement from a first type advertisement distribution server that has a predetermined relationship with content that includes a predetermined ad spot displayed on a terminal device, requesting, by sending amount-of-money information that is based on a condition related to the first type advertisement distribution server, distribution of an advertisement from a second type advertisement…
