INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DISTRIBUTION DEVICE
Granted: February 2, 2017
Application Number:
20170032410
An information processing device according to the present application includes a detecting unit and a predicting unit. The detecting unit detects a move operation to move contents displayed on a display screen of the information processing device. The specifying unit specifies a focused region on which a user is focused for the display screen of the information processing device based on a result of the detection by the detecting unit.
ESTIMATING APPARATUS, TRAVEL DIRECTION ESTIMATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: February 2, 2017
Application Number:
20170030717
According to one aspect of an embodiment, an estimating apparatus includes a detector that detects accelerations. The estimating apparatus includes an identifying unit that identifies a gravity direction using an average of the accelerations that the detector detects in a certain state. The estimating apparatus includes an estimating unit that estimates a travel direction based on the gravity direction that the identifying unit identifies from the accelerations that the detector detects.
INTEGRATED BUILDING BASED AIR HANDLER FOR SERVER FARM COOLING SYSTEM
Granted: January 26, 2017
Application Number:
20170027086
An air handler building structure is disclosed, which includes a floor, a plurality of lateral walls, a roof, and one or more openings located either on the roof or on at least one of the lateral walls. The lateral walls include a lower and an upper lateral walls opposing to each other having different respective heights determined in accordance with a ratio. The roof has a pitch consistent with the ratio associated with the lower and upper lateral walls. The shape of the building…
Bidding Systems and Methods For Minimizing The Cost Of Field Experiments Using Advertisement Exchanges
Granted: January 19, 2017
Application Number:
20170018009
Systems and methods are provided for minimizing the cost of field experiments using advertisement exchanges. The system includes circuitry configured to obtain a bidding opportunity to deliver a message from an exchange system, where the bidding opportunity comprises an impression candidate and user information associated with the impression candidate. The system includes circuitry configured to obtain at least one bidding parameters from the database, where the at least one bidding…
SOCIAL AGGREGATION COMMUNICATIONS
Granted: January 19, 2017
Application Number:
20170017996
The present invention provides techniques for utilizing opportunities presented by events and social gatherings, such as online advertisement targeting and communications related opportunities. Techniques are provided in which information is obtained that provides an indication that a set of users, including mobile electronic device users, are in a specified area, and indicating that at least some of the set of users are at a particular event or gathering. A virtual user grouping may be…
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD
Granted: January 12, 2017
Application Number:
20170010791
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a cursor control unit, a display position change unit, and a range selection unit. When switching operation for switching to a selection mode for selecting characters included in a display region displayed in a display unit is detected, the cursor control unit displays another cursor different from a cursor displayed in the display region in the display region. When moving operation for moving the display…
Systems and Methods For Mobile Campaign Optimization Without Knowing User Identity
Granted: January 5, 2017
Application Number:
20170004524
Systems and methods are provided for mobile campaign optimization without knowing user identity. The system includes circuitry configured to obtain mobile application data about a mobile application from at least one mobile device. The system includes circuitry configured to generate a mobile application profile for the mobile application using the mobile application data. The system further includes circuitry configured to select at least one mobile application to show a mobile…
PREDICTION DEVICE, PREDICTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: December 29, 2016
Application Number:
20160379300
A prediction device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a prediction unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on a current price at which a target product is bid at an auction. The prediction unit predicts a price difference between the current price and a future price at which the target product is assumed to be bid after bidding at the current price based on the information on the current price acquired by the acquisition unit and a bid history…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE CONTENT RECOMMENDATION
Granted: December 22, 2016
Application Number:
20160371589
The present disclosure relates to computer systems implementing methods for online content recommendation. The computer systems may be configured to receive a training sample from a first client device corresponding to a predefined feedback interacting with online content displayed on the first client device; update a preexisting training database in real-time based on the received training sample to generate an updated training sample, wherein prior to being updated based on the…
OUTLIER DATA DETECTION
Granted: December 15, 2016
Application Number:
20160364745
Online experimentation has been widely used to evaluate an effect of a new feature of an online product on user engagement. One challenge is that an existence of outliers can often complicate the analysis of such experimental results. Thus, a procedure is provided herein to detect and remove outliers from experimental results. The procedure can use statistical tests based on parametric distributions of sample maximum or minimum. These tests can be performed using an inward testing…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING USER INTERESTS BASED ON A CORRESPONDENCE GRAPH
Granted: November 24, 2016
Application Number:
20160342705
The present teaching relates to determining user interests based on a correspondence graph. In one example, correspondences among a plurality of users are obtained. Connections among at least some of the plurality of users are identified based on the correspondences. A graph is constructed based on the identified connections. Each of the identified connections has a strength determined based on correspondences associated with the identified connection. One or more seed users are selected…
PREDICTION DEVICE, TERMINAL, PREDICTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: November 17, 2016
Application Number:
20160335556
A prediction device according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit and a predicting unit. The acquiring unit acquires usage states of a plurality of terminals used by a user. The predicting unit predicts a context of the user on the basis of the usage states of the respective terminals acquired by the acquiring unit. For example, the acquiring unit acquires discrete data indicating the usage state of each of the terminals, and the predicting unit predicts the context of the user…
METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MULTIPLE DEVICES BELONGING TO THE SAME GROUP
Granted: November 3, 2016
Application Number:
20160323239
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…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE VIRALITY OF INTERNET CONTENT USING INDICES
Granted: November 3, 2016
Application Number:
20160321281
A system may measure the virality of content items on a network. The virality may be measured for Internet content using indices. Indices may be generated that represent the share or news worthiness of content. An indexer may monitor the content items and generate a score which may be used to identify which content items are most likely to receive a user access request or referral from the remote server. A logic generator may display visual elements as graphical representations of the…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATING TO DESIGN OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR DISPLAY ADS ON A LARGER SCREEN SPACE
Granted: November 3, 2016
Application Number:
20160320864
Techniques are provided which facilitate mobile applications displaying advertisements on a larger screen space without worrying about screen clutter or interference with application functionality. Motion events are triggered once a computerized device detects a threshold magnitude of tilt along a first, second, and/or third coordinate axis. A graphical display is presented to the user which includes at least one advertisement. Several embodiments of the graphical display include a…
GENERATION APPARATUS, GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: October 20, 2016
Application Number:
20160309223
A generation apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires information on usage of a moving image content used via a partial moving image that is used as a key image of the moving image content in a terminal device that is a distribution destination of the partial moving image. The generating unit generates a partial moving image corresponding to the moving image content on the basis of the information acquired by the…
GENERATION APPARATUS, GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: October 20, 2016
Application Number:
20160307239
A generation apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a first content to he displayed in a display area included in a predetermined content, and a second content that is provided by a provider different from a provider of the first content. The generation apparatus includes a generating unit that generates a third content, in which the first content and the second content arc superimposed such that at least a part of the second content is visible.
TECHNIQUES FOR MODELING AGGREGATION RECORDS
Granted: September 22, 2016
Application Number:
20160275165
Techniques and technologies described herein can generate and provide identifiers, such as unique identifiers, for individual records of aggregate data. Such identifiers allow systems to cache and reuse individual records of aggregate data. Also, such identifiers can facilitate simpler analytic views of aggregate data.
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 22, 2016
Application Number:
20160275572
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an accepting unit and a distributing unit. The accepting unit accepts a request for a web page from a terminal device. The distributing unit distributes a web page including an advertisement area with a size equal to or smaller than a predetermined ratio of a display screen size of the terminal device. Thus, the information processing apparatus can prevent a reduction in the click rate for advertisement information.
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: September 22, 2016
Application Number:
20160275549
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit and a prediction unit. The acquisition unit acquires user information including a number of distributions of an advertisement content to a user targeted for advertisement distribution. The prediction unit predicts an advertising effect of the advertisement content when the advertisement content is distributed to the user, based upon the user information acquired by the acquisition unit.
