SOCIAL CONTENT SUGGESTIONS BASED ON CONNECTIONS
Granted: March 13, 2014
Application Number:
20140074856
A system and method for recommending content to a user in a social network, including: logging user activity for the user in the social network; categorizing the user activity across all the user's networks, wherein each category is assigned a score based on relevance to the user; assigning weights to the user activities; calculating a social index score as a function of the weighted user activity categories; logging user content into categories; scoring the user content; and generating…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON USER DRIVEN DEVICE MOTION INPUTS
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067555
A method and system for providing online advertisements based on user driven device motion inputs. The method includes receiving one or more device motion inputs for a static advertisement from a user of an electronic device. The method also includes fetching data based on the one or more device motion inputs. The data includes at least one of acceleration data and multi-directional data. The method further includes correlating the data to one or more objects associated with the static…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SELECTIVE AND VISIBLE PERSONALIZED CONTENT FOR WEBPAGES
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140068455
Methods and systems for providing content for webpages are disclosed. The disclosed method includes providing a plurality of selections to set webpage personalization settings and receiving a user selection chosen from one of the plurality of selections. The plurality of selections is provided for a graphic user interface to be defined on a webpage. After receiving a request for a second webpage made by a user through a user device, the content for the second webpage is selected based on…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140068399
An information processing device includes an article acquisition unit that acquires articles indicated as data, a theme setting unit that sets a theme and an extraction condition of an article included in the theme, a selection unit that receives selection of the set theme by a user, an article extraction unit that extracts an article included in the set theme from the articles acquired by the article acquisition unit based on the extraction condition corresponding to the theme, a…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING NETWORK LATENCY
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067996
Method, system, and programs for reducing network latency in a network. A first connection is established between a relay and a host in the network. The relay receives non-confidential information from the host over the first connection. A second connection is then established between the relay and a node in the network. The relay then communicates with the node, over the second connection, non-confidential information on behalf of the host based on the received non-confidential…
CONTROL FOR INVITING AN UNAYTHENTICATED USER TO GAIN ACCESS TO DISPLAY OF CONTENT THAT IS OTHERWISE ACCESSIBLE WITH AN AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067980
Enabling an authenticated user to access content associated with an authenticated user as though the authenticated user had a selected user relationship with the authenticated user. The user relationship may comprise a relationship degree, a relationship category, a relationship rating, and/or the like. An invitation to join an electronic service, such as an online social network, is sent to the unauthenticated user at an address known to the authenticated user. The invitation includes a…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067875
The disclosure describes systems and methods for modeling relationships between entities on a network using data collected from a plurality of communication channels including social data, spatial data, temporal data and logical data within a W4 Network. The W4 Network personalizes and automates sorting, filtering and processing of W4COMN communications delivered or requested to be delivered using personalized value-based ranking and encoding of data, which is modeled from the…
MEDIA IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT MATCHING OF MEDIA ITEMS HAVING COMMON CONTENT
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067863
To identify a media item from a database of media items that have common content, a region of interest is defined to include a plurality of frames of a test fingerprint that correspond to different segments of a media item. A media identification system queries a database of reference fingerprints to identify candidate reference fingerprints that contain a frame that matches a frame of the test fingerprint. When a candidate reference fingerprint is found, additional matching frames are…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT ENHANCED MAPPING
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067844
A system and method for Context Enhanced Mapping. A request is received from a user over a network for a map comprising an identification of a physical location, and at least one criteria. The physical location is mapped. Spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to the physical location and criteria is retrieved using a global index of data available to the network and prioritized for inclusion based upon the user and context of the request. The map…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067817
Methods and systems for recommending social networking connections are disclosed. Information is received from a mobile device relating to software applications that are installed on a first user's mobile device. A weight for each software application is calculated based on usage information and each software application is designated to at least one category. A priority is calculated for each category based at least in part on respective weights of software applications designated to…
PROVIDING OFFER(S) TO USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM BASED ON COMPATIBILITY OF THE USERS WITH THE OFFER(S)
Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number:
20140067544
Techniques are described herein for, among other things, providing relevant offers to group(s) of users in a social networking system. The offers may specify discounted prices (a.k.a. discounted offers) for good(s) and/or service(s). Each of the offers may be represented as a coupon, a gift certificate, etc. Users having at least one first attribute in common are assigned to a group. A measure of compatibility between the users in the group and each of a plurality of offers is…
ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD
Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140059588
An advertisement distribution apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a display request including a viewpoint condition and advertisement information; an advertisement space setting unit that sets an advertisement space corresponding to the viewpoint condition to video data of an arbitrary viewpoint position generated based on imaging data having different viewpoint positions; an advertisement information setting unit that sets the advertisement information received by the receiver…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MOOD GRADIENT
Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140059430
Systems and methods for generating and playing a sequence of media objects based on a mood gradient are also disclosed. A mood gradient is a sequence of items, in which each item is media object haying known characteristics or a representative set of characteristics of a media object, that is created or used by a user for a specific purpose. Given a mood gradient, one or more new media objects are selected for each item in the mood gradient based on the characteristics associated with…
AUTOMATIC AD GROUP CREATION IN A NETWORKED ADVERTISING ENVIRONMENT
Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140058847
A system for organizing an advertising campaign can receive a selection criteria, match websites to the selection criteria, and generate a list of website names and purchasing information to be displayed on a display device. The website names can represent the matched websites and the purchasing information can define terms for placing advertisements on the matched websites.
ESTIMATING ON-LINE ADVERTISING INVENTORY VALUE BASED ON CONTRACT ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION
Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140058845
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for apparatus and methods for pricing on-line advertisement inventory. In one embodiment, a method for pricing on-line advertisement inventory includes (i) receiving a request for a price of a new product, wherein the new product includes a plurality of specified characteristics of a type of on-line advertisement display, (ii) providing a sample of new impressions that are predicted to be delivered for such new product, (iii) for each new impression,…
SELL THROUGH RATE EVALUATION FRAMEWORK FOR PRICING INVENTORY PROFILES IN ADVERTISING SYSTEMS
Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140058830
A method for evaluating sell through rate in on-line guaranteed display advertising systems includes steps or acts of: receiving a set of eligible advertisement samples for a selected profile for a contract at different time durations; receiving an allocation plan representative of an allocation of future impressions of currently booked contracts; receiving eligible and available impressions for the selected profile at the specific time duration, using the set of eligible samples and the…
COMPOSITE PUBLISHER AUDIENCE PROFILES IN COMPREHENSIVE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION
Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140058826
Techniques are provided for integrated and comprehensive advertising campaign management and optimization. Techniques are provided in which advertisers, including large-budget advertisers such as Chief Marketing Officers, can easily, efficiently and optimally define, manage and implement advertising budgets and campaigns, from high to granular levels, across a variety of online and offline channels. Techniques are provided in which advertiser target customer profile templates, publisher…
COMPARISON OF DATA SIGNALS USING CHARACTERISTIC ELECTRONIC THUMBPRINTS EXTRACTED THEREFROM
Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number:
20140058706
A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database may contain a number of these characteristic thumbprints, and the database can be searched for a particular thumbprint.
MULTISCREEN ADAPTIVE RICH MEDIA ADVERTISEMENTS
Granted: February 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140052546
A package of an advertisement's visual elements along with logic for rendering these elements may be provided to a client as part of a single advertisement package. This single package solution may include multiple rendering capabilities depending on the device or the advertisement container. The server side functionality distributes the single advertisement package and the functionality for identifying, selecting, arranging, and displaying the visual elements of the advertisement may be…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT-BASED PROFILE BUILDING
Granted: February 20, 2014
Application Number:
20140052804
Systems and methods build a profile for a contact. In one aspect, missing information from a profile of a contact is identified. A determination is made regarding whether the missing information is necessary for the profile based on satisfaction of a threshold. In response to the satisfaction of the threshold, a user is prompted to request the missing information from the contact. The missing information is obtained. The missing information is added to the profile.
