MEDIA IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM WITH FINGERPRINT DATABASE BALANCED ACCORDING TO SEARCH LOADS
Granted: August 21, 2014
Application Number:
20140236952
A media identification system generates reference fingerprints for known media samples and stores the reference fingerprints in a reference database. The media identification system uses the reference fingerprints to match a fingerprint generated from an unknown media sample to identify that unknown sample. When storing new reference fingerprints in the reference database, partitions of the database are selected to balance the search loads on the database when it is used by the media…
METHOD OR SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING PERSONALIZED CONTENT
Granted: August 21, 2014
Application Number:
20140236943
Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to recommend content to a user.
INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD
Granted: August 21, 2014
Application Number:
20140236760
An information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a terminal information acquiring unit, a store information acquiring unit, and a sending unit. The terminal information acquiring unit acquires information on purchase planned products which is sent from a wireless terminal existing in a store in which a wireless LAN communication apparatus is installed, from the wireless LAN communication apparatus. The store information acquiring unit acquires information on sales…
Distributed Live Multimedia Switching Mechanism and Network
Granted: August 14, 2014
Application Number:
20140229977
A method includes discovering live video feeds. The discovered live feeds are presented on a website. The viewing of one or more live video feeds and interaction with entities that are generating the live video feeds is enabled.
DYNAMIC GENERATION OF MOBILE WEB EXPERIENCE
Granted: August 14, 2014
Application Number:
20140229818
Techniques are described herein for generating a user interface configured for a mobile device, on-the-fly at run time, in response to receiving a request for a Web page from the mobile device. The user interface for the mobile device may show the Web page with an appearance and content that are similar to the same Web page that is viewed on other devices, such as a non-mobile device. Such similar appearance and content may be possible without an increase in cost because a layout of the…
ENHANCED SHARED SCREEN EXPERIENCES FOR CONCURRENT USERS
Granted: August 14, 2014
Application Number:
20140229289
In one embodiment, a group of two or more individuals may be identified. A group profile associated with the group of two or more individuals may be obtained. One or more content items and/or one or more advertisements suitable for presenting to the group of two or more individuals may be identified based, at least in part, upon the group profile. The one or more content items and/or one or more advertisements may be provided for access by the group of two or more individuals.
USE OF NATURAL QUERY EVENTS TO IMPROVE ONLINE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
Granted: August 14, 2014
Application Number:
20140229282
A system and method to identify targeting criteria for online advertising campaigns based on natural query event data are described. A request to determine targeting criteria is received from an advertiser entity. Natural or algorithmic query event data related to the advertiser entity is retrieved from a data storage module. Attribute data associated with targeted customers is extracted based on the retrieved natural query event data. Finally, the attribute data is further processed to…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING OF REFERENCES TO DOCUMENTS
Granted: August 14, 2014
Application Number:
20140229272
The order and type of display of documents may be updated or adaptively scheduled. The documents may include advertisements and articles that are displayed together. A popularity or selection weight of the documents may be monitored and used to determine when and where to display the documents.
SCORING USERS OF NETWORK BASED SERVICES
Granted: August 7, 2014
Application Number:
20140222556
Methods, systems and computer program products for evaluating a score for a particular user of network-based services. In one method, advertisements are provides on webpage(s) of the user. The webpage(s) may include content generated by the user. Advertising revenue generated by the webpage(s) is calculated and a score is assigned to the user based on the calculated advertising revenue.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONETIZATION IN PHOTO SHARING SITES
Granted: August 7, 2014
Application Number:
20140222560
Disclosed is a system and method for selecting and serving advertisements in response to requests for photos on a photo-sharing website. In some embodiments, the present disclosure describes a system and method for automatically matching an advertisement with a media file when the media file has been rendered by a user. Aspects of the present disclosure allow for automatic selection and serving of advertisements based on a requested media file and/or user profile information, potentially…
ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT METHOD
Granted: August 7, 2014
Application Number:
20140222584
An advertisement distribution management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a storage unit, and an acceptance unit. The detection unit detects information on a wireless terminal which exists in a communication area of a wireless LAN access point and which satisfies a predetermined condition. The storage unit stores information on the wireless terminal detected by the detection unit and attribute information set to the wireless LAN access point in association…
PERSONALIZATION OF NEWS ARTICLES BASED ON NEWS SOURCES
Granted: August 7, 2014
Application Number:
20140222800
News search and browse experience is personalized based on user preferences. User attributes like a geographic location are obtained and news sources preferred by other users with attributes similar to those of a requesting user are identified. News sources that are popular across different user groups are eliminated and relevant news items from the remaining news sources are retrieved and presented to the requesting user.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING AN EFFICIENT DATA COMPRESSION SCHEME TO URL PARAMETERS
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214779
Disclosed is a system and methods for data compression and decompression. The systems and methods discussed herein include an encoder, dictionary, decoder, literal string and control output. The discussed systems and methods encode data transmitted over a communications channel through the use of a dynamically compiled dictionary. Upon reviewing the characters within the transmitted data in view of the dictionary, an encoded/compressed output string is created. Such output string may…
PROVIDING RELEVANT NON-REQUESTED CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214878
A system and method are directed towards providing non-requested content to a mobile terminal based on characteristics of, and tracked usage of the mobile terminal to request content through an online portal service, which provides access to content in multiple subject areas. A mobile user profile is created from the characteristics and patterns of the tracked usage. The tracked usage information includes the time, location, frequency at which the content was requested. Based on the…
WIRELESS TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140211645
A wireless terminal according to an embodiment includes a display unit, a wireless LAN communication unit, a wireless WAN communication unit, and a control unit. The control unit acquires, when a radio wave intensity of a wireless signal output from a wireless LAN access point detected by the wireless LAN communication unit satisfies a predetermined condition, notification information corresponding to the wireless LAN access point by the wireless WAN communication unit or by the wireless…
INDEXING AND SEARCHING CONTENT BEHIND LINKS PRESENTED IN A COMMUNICATION
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207761
Among other disclosures, a method may include identifying content in an electronic communication, the content including a link. The method may include characterizing content associated with the link and storing the characterization. Upon detecting a match of a characterization, presenting one or more of the communication or portion thereof, the link or content associated with the link.
MOBILE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140206397
A method for providing information to a traveler during a vehicle trip is provided, which comprises the following: monitoring a current location of a vehicle and at least one aspect of the vehicle trip other than the current location of the vehicle; and providing information to the traveler in response to as least one status change with respect to the at least one aspect of the vehicle trip based on the current location of the vehicle.
INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140204926
The information providing system according to the embodiment includes a wireless LAN access point and an information providing apparatus. The wireless LAN access point detects a wireless terminal existing in a wireless LAN communication area to transmit the detection information to the information providing apparatus. The information providing apparatus determines either the wireless LAN access point or a wireless WAN base station, on the basis of information on a user of a wireless…
INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140204925
An information providing system according to an embodiment includes a wireless LAN communication unit, a notification information storage unit, a terminal position acquisition unit, and a notification unit. The notification information storage unit stores notification information corresponding to the wireless LAN communication unit. The terminal position acquisition unit acquires position information indicating a position of a wireless terminal. The notification unit notifies a wireless…
GRANULAR DATA FOR BEHAVIORAL TARGETING
Granted: July 17, 2014
Application Number:
20140200999
A method of targeting receives several granular events and preprocesses the received granular events thereby generating preprocessed data to facilitate construction of a model based on the granular events. The method generates a predictive model by using the preprocessed data. The predictive model is for determining a likelihood of a user action. The method trains the predictive model. A system for targeting includes granular events, a preprocessor for receiving the granular events, a…
