ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT PUSH DELIVERY
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278952
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to online advertising and may relate, more particularly, pushing advertising content to user computing devices, for example.
Methods and Systems for Application Rendering and Management on Internet Television Enabled Displays
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140282718
Methods and systems are provided for enabling presentation of supplemental application content to display devices while particular content is rendered on the display device. One example method includes receiving a request, at a server, to register a display device. The display device has hardware for communication over the Internet with the server that is further configured to provide applications for rendering on the display device. The display device further includes hardware for…
AUTOMATICALLY FITTING A WEARABLE OBJECT
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140282137
Image of a subject is received along with viewable representations of a user selected wearable object having a respective size indicative of physical dimensions of the wearable object. The physical proportions of the subject are determined and a display is generated that shows how the wearable object having a respective size will look when worn by the subject having the determined physical proportions.
Visual Presentation of Customized Content
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140282029
Customized content is presented to a user in a browser. A plurality of content items are determined and ranked for the user. The plurality of content items include user-specific content and general content, each content item associated with one or more tags. The content items are presented to the user in a layout of tiles with each tile displays a content item. After a user selection of a tag is received, content items are filtered based on the user selected tag and presented to the user…
Method And Apparatus For Tagging Data
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140281861
A system is provided that permits the use of classification information that can be interpreted by a computer system. To this end, a system and method may be provided for creating classification information that may be interpreted by a computer system. Such classification information may be associated with content, and permit a computer system to process the content based on the classification information. In one example, classification information may be associated by a user, system, or…
Methods and Systems for Pre-Caching Information on a Mobile Computing Device
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280735
Systems and methods for pre-caching information on mobile computing devices are set forth in this disclosure.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING USER ENGAGEMENT FROM STREAM DEPTH
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280550
Method, system, and programs for measuring user engagement. In one example, a type of user activities with respect to a plurality pieces of content in a content stream is detected. A first depth measure with respect to the content stream is obtained based on the detected type of user activities. A function is generated based on the first depth measure and a second depth measure with respect to the content stream. A user engagement score is calculated for each of the plurality pieces of…
ANIMAL ABNORMALITY DETECTING DEVICE, AND ANIMAL ABNORMALITY DETECTING METHOD
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280273
An animal abnormality detecting device includes an animal abnormality information storage unit, a retrieval observation data receiving unit, an animal abnormality information specifying unit, and an abnormality information transmitting unit. In the animal abnormality information storage unit, animal abnormality information including animal observation data including one or more pieces of time-series observation data on an animal and animal individual information is stored. The retrieval…
ALMOST ONLINE LARGE SCALE COLLABORATIVE FILTERING BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280251
A method for adjusting one or more parameters associated with a model. The method comprises obtaining, from a first source, first information related to activity of a user. The method further comprises adjusting one or more parameters associated with a model based on the first information collected within a first length of time, and obtaining, from a second source, second information related to activity of the user. The method further comprises adjusting the one or more parameters…
AD TARGETING SYSTEM
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140279036
An ad targeting system may provide for determining a prime target based on one or more prime target parameters. The one or more prime target parameters may include criteria for determining a prime target. The criteria for determining a prime target may include one or more of a minimum amount of interactions or associations with individuals and organizations, a minimum amount of notoriety, or a minimum amount of conversions. The system may also provide for deriving a graph data structure…
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRACTION DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT EXTRACTION METHOD
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278939
An advertisement extraction device according to the present application has a calculating unit, a tallying unit, and an extracting unit. The calculating unit calculates a hypothetical advertisement effect for each user attribute of a user, based on a delivery history regarding advertisement content delivery to a terminal device used by the user. The tallying unit tallies up an advertisement effect for each piece of advertisement content in which a user attribute as a delivery object has…
SYSTEM AND METHOD IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVERTISING ENTITIES BASED ON USER GOAL ACHIEVEMENT
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278929
Disclosed herein is system, method and architecture facilitating goal setting and achievement and providing positive social and economic motivators for goal achievement. Progress toward a goal is tracked and a determination may be made based the progress whether or not to initiate one or more actions to stimulate progress and/or increase the likelihood of success in achieving a goal and/or achieving a milestone in a path of progression toward the goal.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING NATURAL LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES TO PROCESS INPUTS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278369
Systems and methods are provided for utilizing natural language to process queries. The method for analyzing a linguistic input may include receiving the linguistic input, the linguistic input including at least one word, accessing prestored language data for a language corresponding to the linguistic input, converting the linguistic input into a text-possibility representations based on the received language data, determining a meaning of the text possibility based on the prestored…
IDENTIFYING REGIONS CHARACTERIZED BY LABELED MEASUREMENTS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140270522
Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for processing, such as smoothing, a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels.
Visualizing regions charcaterized by labeled measurements cross-reference to related applications
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140267433
Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for visualizing regions characterized by a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels.
VIRTUAL BILLBOARDS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140267416
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for implementing a reality overlay device. A reality overlay device captures information that is pertinent to physical surroundings with respect to a device, the information including at least one of visual information or audio information. The reality overlay device may transmit at least a portion of the captured information to a second device. For instance, the reality overlay device may transmit at least a portion of the captured information to a…
MEDIA CONTENT ENRICHMENT USING AN ADAPTED OBJECT DETECTOR
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140267219
Disclosed herein are a system, method and architecture for media content enrichment. A visual object detector is trained using a training data set and an existing visual object detector. The newly-adapted visual object detector may be used to detect a visual object belonging to a class of visual object. The existing object detector that is used to train the adapted object detector detects a class of visual objects different from the visual object class detected by the adapted object…
Atmospheric Cooling of Servers in a Data Center
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140259966
A building for a data center (or server farm) includes a stack structure that interfaces with an environment and one or more housings coupled to a floor and the stack structure. Each of the housings includes one or more racks with a plurality of servers and each of the servers includes a computer fan capable of varying speed or reversing direction. The building also includes one or more filters between the one or more housings and the environment and one or more walls operable to be…
VIDEO ADVERTISEMENT WALL
Granted: September 11, 2014
Application Number:
20140259045
Methods and systems are provided that can include iconization and later play of video content items, such as advertisements. During presentation of an online video, video advertisements may be presented. Upon user selection, during or after presentation of a particular video advertisement, the advertisement may cease to be presented, but an icon may be displayed that represents the video advertisement. The icon may be displayed in an area adjacent to the online video display area, which…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A NON-INTRUSIVE VIDEO ADVERTISEMENT WALL
Granted: September 11, 2014
Application Number:
20140259055
Techniques are provided which enhance a user's experience by creating non-intrusive advertising schemes enabling the user to pursue targeted advertisements and/or discounts at a convenient time. During presentation of an online video, the user may “park” an advertisement for later viewing, permitting the focus to remain on the online video content and not on the advertisements. The “parked” advertisement is displayed as an icon adjacent to or minimally overlapping the video. Once…
