Online active learning in user-generated content streams
Granted: February 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11575632
Software for online active learning receives content posted to an online stream at a website. The software converts the content into an elemental representation and inputs the elemental representation into a probit model to obtain a predictive probability that the content is abusive. The software also calculates an importance weight based on the elemental representation. And the software updates the probit model using the content, the importance weight, and an acquired label if a…
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.
Systems and methods for improved web-based document retrieval and object manipulation
Granted: February 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11574029
Systems and methods are provided for improving web-based document retrieval and object manipulation. In an implementation, objects within web documents (e.g., a web page) are manipulated when the objects are visible through a viewport of a user's web browser. According to a method, an object selected from a web document is manipulated when that selected object is displayed within the viewport of the user's browser. The manipulation may include downloading content associated with the…
Method and system for content bias detection
Granted: February 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11574024
The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for providing content. A plurality of content items and publication information related thereto are obtained. For each of the plurality of content items, one or more topics are determined in accordance with a model. The related publication information associated with each content item is analyzed to identify at least one source of a plurality of sources that published the content item. A distribution is generated of each…
Systems and methods for recommendation generation
Granted: January 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11568466
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating and providing recommendations of products are provided. For example, content is extracted from a message sent to a user. The content is evaluated to identify a product identifier corresponding to a product title of a product. If the product identifier is a truncated version of the product title, then a database of product titles and frequencies of occurrence of the product titles is used to complete the product title.…
Systems and methods for processing and organizing electronic content
Granted: January 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11567982
The present disclosure generally relates to processing and organizing electronic content. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises receiving source data from at least one content server, the source data being associated with electronic content. The method also includes generating local data based on at least one of an analysis of the received source data or an extraction from the received source data. Additionally, the method…
Coalition network identification using iterative process
Granted: January 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11567813
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Event information associated with a plurality of events may be identified. The plurality of events may be associated with first entities corresponding to a first entity type and second entities associated with a second entity type. A first network profile associated with the first entities and the second entities may be generated based upon the event information. An iterative process may be performed to identify a…
Systems and methods for generating search results based on optical character recognition techniques and machine-encoded text
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562586
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating search result data based on machine-encoded text generated by computer vision optical character recognition machine learning techniques performed on digital media. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing machine learning visual search or machine learning text extraction techniques on digital media in order to extract and analyze the data therein and further conduct search queries based on the extracted…
Systems and methods for online auction of diverse electronic advertisements
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562404
Systems and methods are disclosed for executing an online auction of diverse online advertisements. One method includes receiving inventory information for serving ads on a publisher web page, the inventory information including at least a first ad configuration different from a second ad configuration, each of the first and second ad configurations defining one or both of an ad size and an ad attribute; receiving or generating a plurality of ad bids to serve ads in the first ad…
Content item selection and click probability determination based upon accidental click events
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11561879
In an example, sets of event information associated with events may be identified. The events may include intentional click events, accidental click events and/or skip events. Accidental click probabilities associated with the accidental click events and/or the skip events may be determined. Machine learning model training may be performed, using the sets of event information associated with the events and labels associated with the events, to generate a first machine learning model. The…
Systems and methods for generating search results based on optical character recognition techniques and machine-encoded text
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562586
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating search result data based on machine-encoded text generated by computer vision optical character recognition machine learning techniques performed on digital media. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing machine learning visual search or machine learning text extraction techniques on digital media in order to extract and analyze the data therein and further conduct search queries based on the extracted…
Systems and methods for online auction of diverse electronic advertisements
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562404
Systems and methods are disclosed for executing an online auction of diverse online advertisements. One method includes receiving inventory information for serving ads on a publisher web page, the inventory information including at least a first ad configuration different from a second ad configuration, each of the first and second ad configurations defining one or both of an ad size and an ad attribute; receiving or generating a plurality of ad bids to serve ads in the first ad…
Content item selection and click probability determination based upon accidental click events
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11561879
In an example, sets of event information associated with events may be identified. The events may include intentional click events, accidental click events and/or skip events. Accidental click probabilities associated with the accidental click events and/or the skip events may be determined. Machine learning model training may be performed, using the sets of event information associated with the events and labels associated with the events, to generate a first machine learning model. The…
Joining and dimensional annotation in a streaming pipeline
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11558446
Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, at a stream processor, an event, the stream processor including a plurality of processing stages; generating, by the stream processor, an augmented event based on the event, the augmented event including at least one additional field not appearing in the event, the additional field generated by an operation selected from the group consisting…
Method and system for dynamically generating a card
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11558324
The present teaching relates to dynamically generating a card. In one example, a request is received for generating a card to be provided to a user. Dynamic information related to the request is obtained. One or more modules are selected to be put into the card based on the dynamic information. The card is generated based on the selected one or more modules.
Cross-domain action prediction
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556822
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for cross-domain action prediction are provided. Action sequence embeddings are generated based upon a textual embedding and a graph embedding utilizing past user action sequences corresponding to sequences of past actions performed by users across a plurality of domains. An autoencoder is trained to utilize the action sequence embeddings to project the action sequence embeddings to obtain intent space vectors. A service switch…
Content recommendation based upon continuity and grouping information of attributes
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556814
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content recommendation based upon continuity and grouping information of attributes are provided herein. User interaction data specifying whether users interacted with content items, user attributes of the users, and content attributes of the content items is obtained. A data structure is populated with the user interaction data. The data structure is modified by inserting a set of sub-fields into the data structure for a user…
Determination apparatus, determination method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556547
A determination device according to the present application has an acquisition unit, a categorization unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires the search queries, which have been input by a plurality of input customers who have input a reference query. The categorization unit categorizes the search queries, which have been input in a predetermined period among search queries, into a plurality of categories. The determination unit determines whether a categorization…
Method and system for adaptive online updating of ad related models
Granted: January 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11544740
The present teaching relates to generating an updated model related to advertisement selection. In one example, a request is obtained for updating a model to be utilized for selecting an advertisement. A plurality of copies of the model is generated. The model is pre-selected based on a performance metric related to advertisement selection. Based on each of the plurality of copies, a candidate model is created by modifying one or more parameters of the copy of the model to create a…
Systems and methods for detecting a peak in web traffic on an electronic network
Granted: January 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11544738
Systems and methods are disclosed for attributing web traffic to an advertising spot. The method may include receiving traffic data for a web page from a server associated with an advertiser and receiving, from a log provider, a log of a plurality of advertising spots related to the advertiser. A duration of time as a peak may be designated to identify the amount of traffic that is attributable to the one of the plurality of advertising spots.
