Yahoo Patent Grants

Automatic schema upgrade in a big data pipeline

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11836124
Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving an event that includes a plurality of fields and extracting needed fields from the plurality of fields. The method then serializes the plurality of fields and generates a new event that includes the set of needed fields and a hidden field, the value of the hidden field comprising the serialized fields. The method then transmits the new event…

Output device control

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11835984
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for controlling an output device are provided. For example, features are extracted from data points of an object. A set of data points are identified from the data points based upon the set of data points having features corresponding to target features. Marker elements are assigned to the set of data points. A mapping structure is used to assign output indicators to the marker elements. The output device is controlled to provide…

Systems and methods for opting-out of targeted advertising in an online advertising environment

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11830035
Systems and methods are disclosed for opting-out of targeted advertising in online advertising environments. One method includes receiving an opt-out verification request, the opt-out verification including an IP address of a user device and HTTP header fields of an HTTP request of the user device; determining a geographic area of the user device based on the IP address of the user device; accessing an opt-out database having entries of user devices that opted-out of receiving targeted…

Automatic web browsing in electronic messaging interface method and apparatus

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11823255
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide…

System and method for ensemble expert diversification via bidding

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11823021
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. A check is performed on a level of available bidding currency for bidding a training sample that is used to train a model via machine learning. A bid in an amount within the available bidding currency is sent, to a source of the training sample, for the training sample. The training sample is received from the source when the bid is successful. A prediction is then generated in accordance…

Exactly-once performance from a streaming pipeline in a fault-vulnerable system

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11822556
Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a stream of events, where each event comprises a header including an event type field and a timestamp. and identifying that the header of a given event in the stream of events includes at least one secondary event in a list of secondary identifiers included in the header. A flag is set in a distributed database for the at least one secondary…

Parallel audit cycles between primary and secondary event feeds

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11822536
Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising completing a first audit for a primary event type, the first audit generating a set of primary events and completing a second audit for a secondary event type, the second audit generating a draft set of secondary events and an auxiliary feed of un-joined secondary events. The method then performs a join audit check on the auxiliary feed of un-joined…

Time series trend root cause identification

Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11817994
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for time series trend root cause identification are provided. In particular, an overall trend of multi-dimensional time series data and element trends for measured elements of dimensions within the multi-dimensional time series data is identified. Weighted correlations between the element trends of the measured elements and the overall trend are calculated. The weighted correlations of the measured elements and aggregate weighted…

Method and system for evaluating expressions

Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11816104
The present teaching relates to method, system, and programming for evaluating expressions. An expression indicative of conditions and metadata associated therewith is obtained. A determination is made as to whether the expression corresponds to a modified version of an earlier expression based on the metadata. In response to a determination that the expression is the modified version of the earlier expression, a query associated with the modified expression is transmitted to a…

Weighted pseudo—random digital content selection

Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11810158
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to digital content selection, and more particularly to weighted pseudo-random digital content selection for use in and/or with online digital content delivery, such as online advertising, for example.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11809494
An information processing apparatus according to the application concerned includes an obtaining unit and a generating unit. The obtaining unit obtains a first-type graph including a plurality of node corresponding to a plurality of search target. The generating unit generates, based on placement of the plurality of nodes in the first-type graph, a second-type graph that includes a virtual node representing a node not associated to a search target by adding the virtual node to the…

Tree-like metadata structure for composite datasets

Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11809396
Disclosed are embodiments for generating metadata files for composite datasets. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising generating a tree representing a plurality of datasets; parsing the tree into an algebraic representation of the tree; identifying a plurality of terms in the algebraic representation, each term in the terms comprising at least two factors, each of the two factors associated with a dataset in the plurality of datasets; generating a metadata object of the…

Computerized system and method for an interactive online learning experience

Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number: 11805165
Content items are provided to users and their interactions with the provided content items are recorded in respective user profiles. The users' interactions thus recorded over time are analyzed to determine if the users have a balanced information intake. A reading habit score is determined for a user based various criteria. The user's reading habit score is analyzed to determine if the user's habits indicate a balance in the user's content consumption. If the user's reading habit score…

Systems and methods for improved sorting using intelligent partitioning and termination

Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number: 11803897
Systems and methods are disclosed for sorting elements, such as bids in an auction environment or marketplace for the display of an advertisement on a web page. According to one implementation, a plurality of elements may be received over a network. For example, the plurality of elements may comprise a plurality of bids, each of which may include, for example, a bid price, a bid allocation, and a bid target. The received set of elements may be recursively partitioned into a plurality of…

Determining salient entities and generating salient entity tags based upon articles

Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number: 11803605
In an example, an article may be analyzed to identify entity terms. Entity term relevance scores associated with the entity terms may be determined based upon the article and the entity terms. One or more first entity terms may be selected based upon the entity term relevance scores. One or more sets of reference position information associated with the one or more first entity terms may be determined. A first set of reference position information is based upon one or more positions, in…

Method and system for querying streaming data

Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number: 11803562
The present teaching relates to streaming data querying and providing query results. In one example, a query is received for events happening after receipt of the query. A plurality of data records are obtained, where each of the data records corresponds to an event happening after receipt of the query. For each of the plurality of data records, it is determined whether the data record matches the query. Based on the determining, one or more query results are determined and provided as a…

Public content validation and presentation method and apparatus

Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number: 11797517
Techniques for identifying and validating online content items for presentation to users are disclosed. Disclosed systems and methods use a sentiment analyzer to determine a sentiment of a candidate content item and collateral content items identified using keywords associated with the candidate content item, determine a measure of agreement in sentiment using the sentiments determined for the candidate content item and collateral content items, and provide at least a portion of the…

System and method of content selection using selection activity in digital messaging

Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number: 11799981
Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. The identified interest(s) can be used to select content to be presented to the user. By way of a non-limiting example, information collected in response to the user clicking on a link in an electronic mail, email, message can be used to identify one or more content items to be…

Computerized systems and methods for graph data modeling

Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number: 11798208
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for graph data modeling. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided that includes operations performed by at least one processor. The operations of the method include receiving raw data and determining a model for the raw data, wherein the model defines the graph structure for the raw data. The method also includes converting the raw data to fit the model, and generating at least a portion of a graph based on the…

Automated image ads

Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number: 11798042
A system for generating an advertisement is provided. The system may receive an advertisement request from a client device and select an advertisement from a database in response to the advertisement request. The system may identify an advertiser web server associated with the advertisement, for example a landing page. The system may retrieve a picture from the advertiser web server and integrate the picture with the advertisement to generate an enhanced advertisement. The system may…