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Selective streaming of video segments based on buffer data and download rate range

Granted: April 4, 2023
Patent Number: 11622140
Technologies for selectively streaming video based on mapping buffer data to download rates. The technologies can include sampling download rates of a video player prior to or during downloading of a first video segment to the video player. The technologies can include determining a range of download rates of the video player based at least on the sampled download rates. The technologies can include determining an amount of accumulated video data in a buffer of the video player…

Computerized system and method for in-video modification

Granted: April 4, 2023
Patent Number: 11620825
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos…

Network profile generation

Granted: April 4, 2023
Patent Number: 11620663
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Activity of a plurality of devices may be analyzed to identify network traffic. A network profile associated with the plurality of devices may be generated based upon the network traffic. The network profile may be indicative of one or more sets of transmission metrics associated with a first device of the plurality of devices. The network profile may be indicative of one or more sets of reception metrics associated…

Automatic web browsing in electronic messaging interface method and apparatus

Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11610255
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…

Search across multiple user interfaces

Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11609923
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for searching across multiple user interfaces are provided. For example, a search query may be received from a user of a computing environment. A set of user interfaces, hosted by the computing environment, may be identified (e.g., mobile apps of a mobile operating system, browser tabs of a web browser, etc.). Content within the set of user interfaces may be queried using the search query to identify search results of the search…

System and method for generating new message templates

Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11606326
Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's…

Method and system for identifying recipients of a reward associated with a conversion

Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11599897
The present teaching relates to method and system for advertising. The method obtains information related to an operational smart attribution evaluation package (SAEP) posted on a platform. The SAEP is related to a conversion associated with an advertisement displayed by a plurality of entities. The method parses the SAEP to obtain a conversion parameter, and generates a claim for the conversion based on the conversion parameter and information related to the advertisement, if the…

Generic card feature extraction based on card rendering as an image

Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11599571
Methods and apparatus for using features of images representing content items to improve the presentation of the content items are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of digital images are obtained, where each of the images represents a corresponding one of a plurality of content items Image features of each of the digital images are determined. Additional features including at least one of user features pertaining to a user of a client device or contextual features pertaining to…

Methods and systems for determining exposure to fixed-location dynamic displays

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11593839
Systems and methods are disclosed for executing the electronic distribution of electronic content to a dynamic display. The method includes receiving, from an advertiser or content provider, a request to transmit electronic content to the dynamic display, identifying a first geographical zone associated with the fixed location; identifying a second geographical zone associated with the fixed location; generating a plurality of directional vectors for quantifying the displacement of any…

Location based content system for mobile applications

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11595329
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for providing users with electronic retrieval capabilities that are activated upon the users' determined locations respective to real-world locations associated with a message providing entity. The disclosed technology…

System and method for large-scale multi-label learning using incomplete label assignments

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11593703
At least one label prediction model is trained, or learned, using training data that may comprise training instances that may be missing one or more labels. The at least one label prediction model may be used in identifying a content item's ground-truth label set comprising an indicator for each label in the label set indicating whether or not the label is applicable to the content item.

Neural contextual bandit based computational recommendation method and apparatus

Granted: February 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11587143
Disclosed are systems and methods utilizing neural contextual bandit 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 make item recommendations using latent relations and latent representations, which can improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems.…

System and method for segmenting and targeting audience members

Granted: February 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11587114
Methods and apparatus for delivering content to an audience member via one or more mediums based on an audience member profile are disclosed. Profile data for audience members may be initially collected from an offline source, such as a registration or subscription database. The profile data may be stored in a dedicated database. The initial profile data may be supplemented periodically with data reflecting online activity by the audience member. The combined offline and online profile…

Information computing apparatus, information computing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

Granted: February 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11586639
An information processing device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit, a selection unit, and a search unit. The acquisition unit acquires a search query input by a user. The selection unit selects a type of target information to be searched on the basis of the search query acquired by the acquisition unit. The search unit searches for information corresponding to the search query from the type of target information to be searched selected by the selection…

Systems and methods for providing non-intrusive advertising content to set-top boxes

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11582533
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing non-intrusive advertising content to users. The method includes receiving user input reflecting user content preferences for receiving desired content related to specific topics in lieu of standard advertising slots while watching playable media content via a set-top box. The method may further include receiving a request for playable media content and then retrieving desired content based on user content preferences. Thereafter, the method…

Routing a mobile vehicle based on rider characteristics

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11580615
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a deciding unit. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information on a user. The deciding unit decides, based on the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit, a placement position in which a virtual riding point that corresponds to a riding point that is used for the user to ride in a moving vehicle and that is virtually set is placed.

Learning apparatus, generation apparatus, classification apparatus, learning method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11580362
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning apparatus includes a first acquiring unit that acquires first output information that is output by an output layer when predetermined input information is input to a model that includes an input layer, a plurality of intermediate layers, and the output layer. The learning apparatus includes a second acquiring unit that acquires intermediate output information that is based on pieces of intermediate information that are output by the…

Systems and methods for hyper parameter optimization for improved machine learning ensembles

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11580325
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for hyper parameter optimization for machine learning ensemble generation are provided. For example, one or more base models are trained using diverse sets of hyper parameters, wherein different sets of hyper parameters (e.g., hyper parameters with different values) are used to train different base models. A matrix, populated with predictions from the set of base models, is generated. A machine learning ensemble is generated by…

Method and system for providing context based query suggestions

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11580168
The present teaching relates to providing a query suggestion. In one example, a request is received for query suggestions with respect to a query prefix input by a user. A plurality of query suggestions is determined based on the query prefix and a preceding query input by the user. A degree of popularity of the preceding query is determined. One or more query suggestions are selected from the plurality of query suggestions based on the degree of popularity of the preceding query. The…

Method and system for sharing personal information with web sites

Granted: February 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11574331
In one embodiment, a user of a client device may selectively share personal data with web companies. The personal data may be shared directly via transmission by the client device to the web companies. Alternatively, the personal data may be shared with the web companies via a personal data sharing system that collects and maintains personal data associated with users. The personal data sharing system may reward the user for sharing their personal data with the web companies.