Yahoo Patent Grants

Bid value determination for a first-price auction

Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12223405
Shaded bid values may be determined and/or submitted to one or more auction modules for participation in auctions. Auction information including at least one of impression indications associated with the auctions, sets of features associated with the auctions, the shaded bid values associated with the auctions, etc. may be stored in a database. A machine learning model may be trained using the auction information to generate a first machine learning model with feature parameters…

System and method for deep enriched neural networks for time series forecasting

Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12223399
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. Upon receiving input data associated with a time series, hidden representations associated with the time series in a feature space are obtained and used to generate a query vector in a query space. Such generated query vector is then used to query relevant historic information related to the time series. The query vector and the relevant historic information are aggregated to generate at…

Preserving contextual relevance of content

Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12222999
Devices often receive content items to be saved for later presentation to a user. In some instances, the content of the message is analyzed to retrieve supplemental information from external data sources, such as a map to a location discussed in a message. However, such supplementing often fails to reflect the personal context of the content item to the user, who may not easily recall the associated personal context when the content item is later presented. Instead, for a content item to…

Generating congruous metadata for multimedia

Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12222980
A method of generating congruous metadata is provided. The method includes receiving a similarity measure between at least two multimedia objects. Each multimedia object has associated metadata. If the at least two multimedia objects are similar based on the similarity measure and a similarity threshold, the associated metadata of each of the multimedia objects are compared. Then, based on the comparison of the associated metadata of each of the at least two multimedia objects, the…

Automatic electronic message content extraction method and apparatus

Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12222973
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in electronic messaging, and other, 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 systems and methods for…

Content recommendations based upon historical future data

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12217193
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…

Computerized system and method for automatic moderation of online content

Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12216693
The disclosed systems and methods provide a framework for a proactive prediction of the toxic propensity of an article. Prior to the publication and/or reception of comments to online content, the disclosed framework determines the toxic propensity of the content's context and/or specific words, sentences, sentiments, tone or other messages receivable from consumption of the content. Thus, disclosed framework performs proactive forecasting of the content's toxicity propensity”, which…

Systems and methods for customized electronic communications

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12210536
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods customizing electronic communications. A future event associated with a first user may be determined, and a second user that is associated with the first user may be identified. A plurality of communications involving the first user and the second user may be analyzed. A selection rule may be applied based on the analyzed plurality of communications, the selection rule identifying content from the database. Content from the database…

System and method for model-agnostic meta-learner for noisy data with label errors

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12210588
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. Machine learning is performed based on training data via a dual loop learning process that includes a first loop for data decoding learning and a second loop for label decoding learning. In the first loop, first parameters associated with decoding are updated to generate updated first parameters based on a first label, estimated via the decoding using the first parameters, and a second…

Method and apparatus for bookmarking a portion of an electronic document

Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number: 12210555
Techniques for electronic document content bookmarking are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving user input indicating selection of a portion of the electronic document, receiving a request to bookmark the selected portion of the electronic document, generating a bookmark card for the selected portion of the electronic document, the bookmark card comprising information identifying the electronic document, the selected portion of the electronic document…

Systems and methods for cross-browser advertising id synchronization

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12205142
Systems and methods are for identifying online advertisements to display to a user based on historical user data collected across the user's use of a plurality of Internet devices. One method includes receiving, over a network, a request for an advertisement to display at a first device of the user, the request including a unique identifier stored on the user's first device; accessing, in a database, a demographic or browsing history information generated from the user's use of a second…

Automatic privacy-aware machine learning method and apparatus

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12199957
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 displaying and filtering media content in a messaging client

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12199932
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving a set of messages; filtering the set of messages to identify a set of newsletters in response to a selection of a newsletter control within a messaging application; rendering a newsletter view within the messaging application, the newsletter view displaying a plurality of tiles corresponding to the set of newsletters; receiving a section of a given tile in the plurality of tiles from a user; and…

Systems and methods for identity-protected data element distribution network

Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number: 12190357
Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting consumer privacy in an online advertising environment. A request may be received from a browser for a webpage along with a unique browser identifier. The browser may be provided a first portion of the webpage that is locally available. The unique browser identifier may be provided to at least one advertising entity, wherein the advertising entity determines an advertisement based, at least in part, on the unique browser identifier. The…

Evaluating email activity

Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number: 12190348
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for evaluating email activity and/or controlling, based upon the email activity, transmission of instructions associated with quality are provided. A first email, transmitted by an email account associated with an entity to a plurality of email accounts, may be identified. First activity associated with the first email may be detected. A first set of activity information associated with the first activity may be stored in an entity…

Personalized search filter and notification system

Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number: 12189701
One or more techniques and/or systems for sending push notifications of content items to client devices are provided herein. For example, an input received from a user can be expanded to obtain an expanded user interest. Content items from a content source can be filtered based upon the expanded user interest to obtain a set of filtered content items. A push notification can be constructed to comprise one or more of the filtered content items from the set of filtered content items. The…

Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12184644
An information processing device according to the present application includes a control unit. The control unit acquires, from an authentication server, a generation request of a key pair for FIDO authentication transmitted from a user terminal including an authenticator for the FIDO authentication to the authentication server, generates a generation instruction for causing the authenticator to generate the key pair based on the generation request, and notifies the authenticator of the…

System and method for verified predictions and performance

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12182203
The present teaching relates to communication related to predictions. A communication chain is created with multiple chain units, each operating independently to provide prediction services related to a prompt with embedded information therein associated with predictions for the prompt to enable prediction services. A request is received for a requested operation related to a query prompt on one of prediction solicitation, prediction entry, verification entry, and prediction access. If a…

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: D1055973

Computerized system and method for extracting entity information from text communications and displaying content based therefrom

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12174892
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 analyzing messages shared over a network and identifying information in them referencing entities based on a determined context of the messages. Once the entity information is identified, the disclosed framework…