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.
Systems and methods for providing and using an internet sentiment index
Granted: December 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11538067
Systems and methods are disclosed for online distribution of content based on a user sentiment index. The method may include receiving, over a network and from a user device, one or more user generated inputs and calculating the user sentiment index based on the one or more user generated inputs. The method may also include receiving, over the network, from a content or advertising provider, instructions on publishing content or advertising to a webpage based on the calculated user…
Non-transitory computer readable storage medium, allocation apparatus, and allocation method
Granted: December 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11538059
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having an arrangement program according to the present application thereon causes a computer to execute an acquiring process and an arranging process. The acquiring process acquires browsing mode information that indicates a mode of browsing content. The arranging process arranges, in a mode based on the browsing mode information acquired at the acquiring process, at least one element that is used to judge whether the content has actually…
Method and system for filtering content
Granted: December 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11537672
The present teaching relates to methods, systems, and programming for information retrieval. A search result associated with a search query is obtained and provided to a user. Upon receiving a filtering request from the user, the search result is filtered based on the filtering request to generate an updated search result. The updated search result is provided to the user in response to the filtering request.
Method and system for providing a user agent string database
Granted: December 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11537642
Method, system, and programs for determining a keyword from user agent strings are disclosed. In one example, a plurality of user agent strings is received. The plurality of user agent strings is grouped into one or more clusters. The one or more clusters comprise a first cluster that includes two or more user agent strings. The two or more user agent strings in the first cluster are compared. Based on the comparing, a keyword is determined from the first cluster. The keyword represents…
Visual inventory rules building system
Granted: December 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11532019
Methods for creating and updating rules for distribution of an online advertising inventory. The methods can include generating a rule conditions section of a GUI that is configured to display a plurality of parameters of a rule condition of a rule for distribution of an online advertising inventory. Each displayed parameter of the rule condition can be graphically represented by a basic shape (e.g., a hexagon). And, each basic shape of the rule condition can be labeled with an…
Decentralized method and system for accurately determining a level of activity of a client device
Granted: December 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11528336
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for monitoring levels of activity of client devices using a cluster of servers having a decentralized network architecture are provided, where over-counting, which may be caused by an uneven distribution of requests transmitted by the client devices to the cluster of servers, may be mitigated. For example, a request may be received by a first server, of the cluster of servers, from a client device. A first counter value associated…
Presenting content of an application
Granted: December 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11526556
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for presenting content of an application are provided. For example, a first content interface, associated with an application, may be displayed using a first device. First activity performed using the first content interface may be detected. The first activity may be analyzed to generate a first activity profile associated with the first content interface. A first request to access the application may be received from the first…
Method and system for identifying recipients of a reward associated with a conversion
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11521232
The present teaching relates to method and system for evaluating a conversion. The method extracts meta-information including a conversion parameter and a reward. The meta-information corresponds to a conversion associated with an advertisement displayed previously by a plurality of entities. The method receives a plurality of claims for the conversion from one or more entities, and selects a claim corresponding to an entity from the plurality of claims based on the conversion parameter…
Learning apparatus, learning method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11521110
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning apparatus includes a generating unit that generates a model. The model includes an encoder that encodes input information. The model includes a vector generating unit that generates a vector by applying a predetermined matrix to the information encoded by the encoder. The model includes a decoder that generates information corresponding to the information from the vector. The learning apparatus includes a learning unit that, when…
Method and system for literacy adaptive content personalization
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11520840
The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for content personalization. A request is received from a user to obtain a content item. Information indicative of a literacy-level of the user is obtained and the content item to be provided to the user is retrieved. The content item is modified by updating information included in the content item based on the literacy-level of the user to generate an updated content item. The updated content item is provided to the user…
Traveler recommendations
Granted: November 29, 2022
Patent Number:
11514500
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing recommendations to travelers are provided. For example, locational data associated with a device of a user is evaluated to identify a set of location points at which the device was located over time. Location point pairings are generated from the set of location points, where a location point pairing may comprise a departure location point and an arrival location point. The location point pairings are filtered based…
Building profiles for clusters with smart union of individual profiles
Granted: November 29, 2022
Patent Number:
11514081
A system for generating a cluster profile is provided. The system may include a server and a database. The server may be configured to receive event information from a plurality of consumer devices. The database may store a plurality of member profiles. The server may be configured to retrieve the member profiles from the database and may determine a subset of member profiles to associate with a cluster; the server may calculate an intersection of the facts from the subset of member…
Automated materialized view table generation and maintenance
Granted: November 29, 2022
Patent Number:
11514030
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for automated materialized view table generation and maintenance are provided. A log, comprising queries and latencies of processing the queries, is evaluated to identify a list of combinations of fields that occur greater than a threshold frequency and/or occur in queries having latencies greater than a threshold latency. A materialized view generation script is executed against a main database to generate a materialized view table…
Method and system for managing resource utilization based on reinforcement learning
Granted: November 29, 2022
Patent Number:
11513866
The present teaching relates to managing computing resources. In one example, information about resource utilization on a computing node is received from the computing node. Available resource on the computing node is determined based on the information. A model generated in accordance with reinforcement learning based on simulated training data is obtained. An adjusted available resource is generated based on the available resource and the model with respect to the computing node. The…
Systems and methods for syndicated distribution of electronic content
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11509714
Systems and methods are disclosed for online distribution of content by receiving, from a user's mobile device, a request for a web page hosted by a publisher's CMS; applying a rules engine to analyze a received URL according to a set of rules identifying one or more website types and/or referrers; if the received URL satisfies the rules engine, redirecting the received request to a syndication server system hosted within a global CDN; adding a URL of the web page to a missing content…
Method and system for providing query suggestions based on user feedback
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507624
Methods, systems and programming for providing query suggestions based on user feedback. In one example, a prefix of a query is first received. An input including a prefix of a query is received from a user in a search session. A plurality of query suggestions are fetched based on the prefix of the query. Rankings of the plurality of query suggestions are determined based, at least in part, on the user's previous interactions in the search session with respect to at least one of the…
Tree-like metadata structure for composite datasets
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507554
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…
Securing digital content using separately authenticated hidden folders
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11501019
Systems and methods for securing digital content using hidden folders are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises displaying an application, the application including a user interface for displaying digital content items and receiving input events; monitoring keystrokes entered by a user of the client device while the application is displayed; generating a candidate passcode based on the keystrokes; determining that the candidate passcode is a valid passcode has been entered…
