ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: August 24, 2017
Application Number:
20170241786
According to one aspect of an embodiment an estimation device includes a detection unit that detects a predetermined physical state that is produced at a time of movement. The estimation device includes an estimation unit that estimates a moving velocity from a state detected by the detection unit, by using a learner that has learned a velocity zone with the physical state being produced therefrom.
INFORMATION PROCESSOR, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PRESUMING ATTRIBUTE BASED ON FLOW OF PHYSICAL UNIT AND APPEALING
Granted: August 17, 2017
Application Number:
20170236161
An information processor includes a detecting unit (control unit), a presuming unit (control unit), and a control unit. The detecting unit detects, by detecting a transition of positional information on individual physical units by sensing with electromagnetic waves and a communication with electromagnetic waves, detects a flow of an aggregate of the physical units. The presuming unit presumes an attribute of the physical units, as an individual, part, or whole, included in the flow,…
LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: August 10, 2017
Application Number:
20170228775
A learning apparatus according to the subject application includes an acquisition unit, a generating unit, and a specifying unit. The acquisition unit acquires terminal information that is information about a terminal device receiving information content. The generating unit generates a model indicating a tendency of predetermined behavior related to predetermined information content to be taken, by learning the relation between result information indicating whether the predetermined…
SCALABLE AND EFFECTIVE DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION FRAMEWORK
Granted: August 10, 2017
Application Number:
20170228457
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication…
SCALABLE CONFLICT DETECTION IN TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT
Granted: August 3, 2017
Application Number:
20170220617
Multi-thread systems and methods are described for concurrently handling requests to commit data updates to a database by a plurality of data transactions. The database preferably supports multi-versioning and the data transactions are preferably isolated by snapshot isolation. In one embodiment, concurrent and lock-free handling of requests to commit data updates includes performing two types of concurrent data conflict detection. A transaction proceeds to commit only if it passes both…
ADVERTISEMENT GENERATION APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE
Granted: August 3, 2017
Application Number:
20170220220
An advertisement generation apparatus includes a generating unit that generates a page to be displayed on a terminal device that displays an advertisement on a screen. The page includes a content page and an advertising page that are superimposed one on top of the other, where the content page includes an advertising space such that the advertising space is to he scrolled on the screen according to operation, and the advertising page is greater in size than the advertising space. The…
INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF TERMINAL DEVICE
Granted: July 20, 2017
Application Number:
20170208497
According to one aspect of an embodiment an information providing device includes a communication unit that communicates with a terminal device used by a user. The information providing device includes an information provision control unit that generates provided information provided to the user in the terminal device and optionally including congestion information presenting a congestion condition and cause the communication unit to transmit the generated provided information to the…
FILTERING MACHINE FOR SPONSORED CONTENT
Granted: July 6, 2017
Application Number:
20170193545
A filtering machine receives sponsored content and filters the sponsored content according to a quality metric generated by quality model circuitry and assigned to the instance of sponsored content. The quality model circuitry generates the quality metric in accordance with historical feedback received about other sponsored content and a collection of quality factors pertaining to the sponsored content. Based on the quality metric for the sponsored content, the filtering machine can…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS INVOLVING INTEGRATION/CREATION OF SEARCH RESULTS MEDIA MODULES
Granted: July 6, 2017
Application Number:
20170193107
Provided herein are mixed-media modules with functional layers that can be used to provided additional information to targeted audience. Systems and methods are disclosed for performing processing involved with search, such as processing search information to return search results. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method for processing information to return search results including mixed-media media presentation(s) selectable by a user. Moreover, such method may…
NETWORK DEVICE, GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT IDENTIFY SIMILAR USERS BASED ON PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS TO PREDICT EXPENSE TRENDS
Granted: June 29, 2017
Application Number:
20170186024
Network devices, methods, and programs identify similar subjects based on physiological characteristics to predict income and expense trends. The devices, methods, and programs receive a user profile from a user terminal via a network interface, the user profile identifying physiological characteristics of the user and an age of the user, and compare the physiological characteristics of the received user profile with physiological characteristics in stored subject profiles to identify a…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER MODEL BASED ON APP BEHAVIOR
Granted: June 29, 2017
Application Number:
20170185901
Systems and methods are provided for building a user model. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory storage medium accessible to the processor. The processor is configured to obtain user data from a database, where the user data include user behavior for a plurality of apps installed on one or more user terminals. The processor selects at least one rating parameters using the user data, where the at least one rating parameters indicates a rating of relevant app usage. The…
LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: June 22, 2017
Application Number:
20170178029
A learning device includes a classification unit that classifies data to be determined by using a learner configured to classify data based on a predetermined feature among features included in the data. The learning device includes an estimation unit that estimates, from classification results according to the classification unit, the behavior of the probability of a mistake occurring in the classification results according to the classification unit based on a large deviation…
DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: June 8, 2017
Application Number:
20170160088
A determination device includes a detection unit that detects acceleration. The determination device includes a setting unit that sets a reference direction based on the acceleration detected by the detection unit. The determination device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a characteristic amount based on acceleration in a direction with respect to the reference direction act by the setting unit. The determination device includes a determination unit that determines a traveling…
NETWORK-BASED USER AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM THAT SECURELY AUTHENTICATE A USER'S IDENTITY BY USING A PRE-REGISTERED AUTHENTICATOR IN A REMOTE PORTABLE TERMINAL OF THE USER
Granted: June 1, 2017
Application Number:
20170155629
A network-based user authentication device, method, and program securely authenticate a user's identity by using a pre-registered authenticator in a remote portable terminal of the user. The device, method, and program transmit an identity verification request that requests verification of the user's identity by a pre-registered authenticator to the remote portable terminal, and receive, in response to the verification request, authentication information from the remote portable…
DIGITAL MEDIA DELIVERY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM THAT SELECT DIGITAL MEDIA FOR DISPLAY WITHIN DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON A DEGREE OF RELIABILITY OF AN EVALUATION VALUE FOR THE DIGITAL MEDIA
Granted: June 1, 2017
Application Number:
20170154365
Digital media delivery devices, methods, and programs select digital media for display within digital content on a terminal device based on a degree of reliability of an evaluation value for the digital media. The devices, methods, and programs access a memory that stores digital media information for a plurality of items of digital media including an evaluation value, and a degree of reliability that reflects the reliability of the evaluation value. The devices, methods, and programs,…
GENERATING ACTIONABLE SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING USER ENGAGEMENT WITH ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS
Granted: June 1, 2017
Application Number:
20170154356
An online advertising system receives an advertisement from an advertiser. The system analyzes the advertisement, extracts its features and provides to the advertiser a quality rating for the advertisement which depends on a user engagement factor such as the predicted dwell time for the ad, given its features. The system further provides to the advertiser suggestions for improvements to the advertisement, such as a list of actionable guidelines that can improve the expected dwell time…
GRANULAR DATA FOR BEHAVIORAL TARGETING
Granted: May 18, 2017
Application Number:
20170140424
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…
DETERMINATION APPARATUS, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: April 20, 2017
Application Number:
20170111340
A determination apparatus according to an embodiment includes a receiving unit, an acquisition unit, and a determination unit. The receiving unit receives a request for authentication of identity of a user who uses a terminal device. The acquisition unit acquires context information that is information indicating a context of the terminal device. The determination unit performs determination related to authentication requested by the terminal device, on the basis of the context…
EXPLORATION OF REAL-TIME ADVERTISING DECISIONS
Granted: April 6, 2017
Application Number:
20170098236
Described herein are example systems and operations for enhancing response prediction and bidding decision making. A feature recommendation controller may include a factorization machine that generates a set of combinations of contextual and advertiser features yielding high expected response rates. A bidding controller may implement a multi-arm bandit system that uses Thompson sampling to select an optimal one of the feature combinations that corresponds to a highest expected response…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING AND UTILIZING A HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK FOR AD CLICK THROUGH RATE PREDICTION
Granted: April 6, 2017
Application Number:
20170098240
The present disclosure relates to a computer system configured establish and utilize a database for online ad realization prediction in an ad display platform associated with N parties, wherein N is a positive integral greater than 1. The computer system is configured obtain a party hierarchy for each of the N parties including a plurality of features of the party; select a target ad display event including N features, each of the N features corresponding to a node in a party hierarchy;…
