Managing electronic addresses based on communication patterns
Granted: April 25, 2023
Patent Number:
11636437
Managing electronic addresses based on communication patterns. A method includes tracking metadata of a plurality of electronic communications of a user. One or more lists of electronic addresses of recipients are generated for the user based on the metadata. Electronic addresses of potential recipients are identified from the one or more lists in response to an input indicative of selection of an electronic address of a recipient. The identified electronic addresses are recommended to…
Content recommendations based upon historical future data
Granted: April 25, 2023
Patent Number:
11636361
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content recommendations using historical future data are provided. A model serving delay time is computed as an average of training delays of events. A historical data time interval is determined based upon the model serving delay time. A model is trained for predicting user content preferences using historic user distribution data and historic content distribution data associated with the historic data time interval. The model…
Systems and methods for unsupervised neologism normalization of electronic content using embedding space mapping
Granted: April 25, 2023
Patent Number:
11636266
Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing a comment moderation bot for detecting and normalizing neologisms in social media. One method comprises transmitting, by a neologism normalization system, a comment moderation bot for detecting neologisms on an online platform maintained by one or more publisher systems. The comment moderation bot may aggregate data related to user comments and transmit the aggregated data to the neologism normalization system for further processing. The…
Incremental data processing
Granted: April 25, 2023
Patent Number:
11636065
Event logs in a video advertisement insertion network are processed to remove duplicate entries. One or more ad servers are continuously generating new event entries and writing them to a database. The entries are randomized such that generated time contiguous entries are distributed over multiple storage locations, thereby facilitating resource scaling and a uniform use of storage and computing resources. The distributed entries are read from the storage locations using sequential reads…
Method and system for data indexing and reporting
Granted: April 18, 2023
Patent Number:
11630817
The present teaching relates to system, method, and programming for indexing user records. A plurality of user records are obtained, wherein each user record is associated with a user identifier and one or more data-segments. For each data-segment, one or more user identifiers associated with the data-segment are determined, a relative distance of each user identifier with respect to a previous user identifier associated with the data-segment is computed, and a variable number of bits to…
Method and system for identifying recipients of a reward associated with a conversion
Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number:
11625748
The present teaching relates to a method and a system for advertising. The method obtains information about a conversion associated with an advertisement and generates with respect to the conversion, an operational smart attribution evaluation package (SAEP). The SAEP includes a conversion parameter and a reward. The method transmits the SAEP to a platform to be posted, and thereafter receives from the SAEP, an indication of an entity which is estimated to be associated with the…
Ranking user comments on media using reinforcement learning optimizing for session dwell time
Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number:
11625599
A method is provided, including: storing comments generated in response to a content item served over a network; analyzing the comments to determine features associated with each of the comments; using a scoring model to score each comment based on the comment's corresponding features; receiving a request to serve a subset of the comments; responsive to the request, selecting a ranking of the comments that is one permutation from possible rankings of the comments, wherein selecting the…
System and method for identifying approximate k-nearest neighbors in web scale clustering
Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number:
11625420
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for identifying k nearest neighbors. One or more KNN lists corresponding to one or more source data points are received. Each KNN list includes K neighbors of a source data point and each of the K neighbors is a data point represented by an index. Neighbor pairs and reverse neighbor pairs are generated based on the one or more KNN lists. The neighbor pairs and reverse neighbor pairs having the same source data…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
