Yahoo Patent Grants

Method and system for tracking events in distributed high-throughput applications

Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number: 11463532
The present teaching relates to tracking an event at a plurality of distributed servers. In one example, an event to be tracked is determined. A user associated with the event is identified. A script is generated to be embedded in a web page. The script triggers an event message when the user performs an online behavior related to the web page in accordance with the event. The event message triggered by the script is received. A tracing flag is determined from the event message. An…

Automated presentation of information using infographics

Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number: 11461348
In one embodiment, a method for creating one or more infographics, comprising: receiving and storing data associated with an individual or an entity, in a format according to a schema that includes at least two properties associated with the individual or entity; reading at least a portion of the data; determining which of the at least two properties in the schema do not have corresponding read data associated with the individual or entity; based on that determination, selecting an…

Extraction device, extraction method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number: 11455660
The extraction device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and an extraction unit. The acquisition unit acquires behavior histories of users being candidates to whom content is to be distributed. The extraction unit extracts target users expected to perform specified behavior, based on a behavior history designated by a content provider, of the behavior histories acquired by the acquisition unit. For example, the extraction unit uses a model for determining…

Quality-based scoring and inhibiting of user-generated content

Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number: 11455553
Methods and devices for assessing the quality of user-generated content are described. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for measuring the quality of a user-generated answer to a question by combining various factors, including question-answer surface word vector similarity, question-answer explicit semantic analysis vector similarity, answer-answer explicit sematic analysis vector similarity, query performance predictor, sentiment analysis, textual analysis of the answer, and…

Recommending contents using a base profile

Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number: 11455352
A method and system for recommending content to a user whose interest(s) has not been identified is disclosed. A base user profile may be created for association with the user. The base user profile may be created by generating a list of ranked interests of a set of representative users. The list of ranked interests may be generated based on activity information obtained for the set of representative users. Content may be recommended to the user based on the base user profile.

Method and system for online user profiling

Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number: 11455351
The present teaching relates to online user profiling. In one example, content associated with a first user of a social media network is obtained. From the content associated with the first user, a first link to a first piece of content is identified. A second user of the social media network associated with the first user is determined in the context of the social media network. From content associated with the second user of the social media network, a second link to a second piece of…

Systems and methods for dynamic partitioning in distributed environments

Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number: 11442792
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic partitioning in distributed computing environments. One method includes: receiving a first data set and a second data set; mapping the first data set into a first set of key-value pairs; mapping the second data set into a second set of key-value pairs; estimating, using a sketch, a frequency count for each key based on the first set of key-value pairs and the second set of key-value pairs; determining whether the…

Systems and methods for analyzing network data to identify human and non-human users in network communications

Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number: 11444972
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying human users on a network. One method includes receiving network data comprising data transmitted over a network over predetermined time period, the network data comprising a plurality of usernames and a plurality of events, wherein each of the plurality of events is associated with at least one of the plurality of usernames; determining a plurality of pairs, each pair of the plurality of pairs comprising a username of the plurality of…

Latent user communities

Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number: 11444909
A method implemented by at least one server computer is provided, including: providing, over the Internet, access to a plurality of topics, wherein each topic includes, and further provides access to, a plurality of posted items; recording interaction data for the plurality of topics, the interaction data identifying user activity occurring within each of the topics; analyzing the interaction data to identify clusters of topics that exhibit similar behavioral patterns; for each cluster…

Intelligent dataflow-based service discovery and analysis

Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number: 11444878
The disclosed embodiments are directed toward monitoring and classifying encrypted network traffic. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising intercepting an encrypted network request, the network request transmitted by a client device to a network endpoint; identifying a network service associated with the network endpoint based on unencrypted properties of the encrypted network request; identifying, based on the encrypted network request and a series of subsequent network…

Computerized system and method for automatic highlight detection from live streaming media and rendering within a specialized media player

Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number: 11438637
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…

Automatic privacy-aware machine learning method and apparatus

Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number: 11438314
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 auto-formatting messages based on learned message templates

Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number: 11438294
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for email management that leverages information derived from a sender's message activity with particular recipients in order to automatically format subsequent messages to those recipients according to the derived information. The present disclosure describes determining message templates associated with messages sent to repetitive recipients, and applying those determined templates upon composition of subsequent messages to the same…

Communication with service providers using disposable email accounts

Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number: 11438284
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating communications with service providers using disposable email addresses (DEAs) are provided. A first email, associated with a requested service, may be received from an email account. A set of service providers may be determined based upon the requested service. A DEA corresponding to the email account may be generated. A second email, comprising an indication of the DEA, may be generated based upon the first email.…

Systems and methods for allocation-free control of online electronic content distribution campaigns

Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number: 11436644
A computer-implemented method for allocation-free control of online campaigns for distributing online content includes receiving a daily content distribution spending budget and one or more response functions, calculating one or more plant gain estimates based on the one or more response functions, calculating a marginal content distribution spending budget based on the daily content distribution spending budget, generating one or more control signals based on the calculated marginal…

Remote mobile profile detection and modification

Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number: 11436637
A system and method are directed towards providing non-requested content to a mobile terminal based on characteristics of, and tracked usage of the mobile terminal to request content through an online portal service, which provides access to content in multiple subject areas. A mobile user profile is created from the characteristics and patterns of the tracked usage. The tracked usage information includes the time, location, frequency at which the content was requested. Based on the…

System and method for automated bidding using deep neural language models

Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number: 11436628
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for predicting potential effectiveness of query-triggered internet advertisements received from different web page publishers using a deep learning neural network language model for clustering queries, and for automatically adjusting bids for advertisements by advertisers based on the predicted potential effectiveness. Using query-clusters rather than queries for adjusting bids for advertisements allows for more accurate and more consistent…

Syndication of slideshow content through a web feed

Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number: 11327644
Systems and methods are provided for syndicating slideshow content in a web feed. Data is obtained for a content feed associated with a web page in response to a request by a user of a content feed reader. A slideshow within the web page is identified based on analysis of the obtained data according to a schema definition for syndication of slideshow content. A first set of properties for the slideshow is extracted from the obtained data, based on the schema definition. A set of slides…

Systems and methods for matching online users across devices

Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number: 11328323
Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a plurality of Internet-enabled devices with a common user profile for targeting Internet content or advertising. One method includes: receiving, from a plurality of Internet-enabled devices, a plurality of requests for electronic content or advertising; extracting, from each of the plurality of requests, a source IP address and a unique identifier associated with the respective Internet-enabled device; for each source IP address for…

Computerized systems and methods for query expansion using displayed objects

Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number: 11327984
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for query expansion are provided. For example, a search user interface is populated with search results of a query submitted through a computing device. User input is received through the search user interface for an object, such as a drag and drop command of a phrase occurring within the search results. The user input may drag the phrase from a search result to a query input user interface. In this way, the query is modified based…