Yahoo Patent Grants

Computerized system and method for in-video modification

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175749
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…

Systems and methods for determining bids for placing advertisements

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175498
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining a bid value for placing an advertisement onto advertising space available through an electronic marketplace. A method is used for calculating the option value of maintaining the advertisement in the advertising space during one or more periods of time. The option value may be based on expected profits and the estimated future value of maintaining the advertisement. The option value may then be used to calculate the bid price…

Content item selection for goal achievement

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175387
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content item selection for goal achievement are provided herein. A goal of a user is identified. A model is utilized to evaluate the goal, user information, and a set of content items to generate predictions for the content items of how likely each content item will be a causation factor of the user making progress towards the goal in response to the user being provided with each content item. A target content item is selected…

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…

Systems and methods for augmenting real-time electronic bidding data with auxiliary electronic data

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154141
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for augmenting real-time bidding data with proprietary data. One method includes: receiving, at a server over an electronic communications network from a real-time impression bidder, a bid request or a request to augment a bid request with proprietary data; accessing, by the server from an internal database, proprietary data of a data augmenting service based on a user identifier of the bid request; determining, by the server,…

Method and system for detecting data bucket inconsistencies for A/B experimentation

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147397
The present teaching generally relates to identifying data bucket overlap with online experiments. In a non-limiting embodiment, first data representing a first set of identifiers associated with a first data bucket of a first online experiment may be obtained. Second data representing a second set of identifiers associated with a second data bucket of the first online experiment may be obtained. Based on the first data and the second data, a first number of identifiers that are…

Coalition network identification using charges assigned to particles

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12149546
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 arrangement of particles corresponding to the first…

Providing a system with access to a resource using a disposable email address

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12149495
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing a system with access to resources associated with a user account using a disposable email address (DEA) are provided. A request to provide a system with access to a first set of resources may be received. The first set of resources may be associated with a first email account associated with a first email address. A first DEA associated with the first email account may be generated. The first DEA may be transmitted to…

Debiasing training data based upon information seeking behaviors

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147503
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for debiasing training data based upon information seeking behaviors are provided. Users associated with a set of training data are segmented into information seeking behavior groups corresponding to varying degrees of information seeking behaviors of the users. Biases for the information seeking behavior groups may be estimated based upon information seeking behaviors of users within the information seeking behavior groups. The…

Systems and methods for processing electronic content

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147466
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing electronic content, such as text, videos, and images. According to certain embodiments, user interactions with electronic content may be tracked over a plurality of modalities, such as web pages, email, mobile applications, and social media. The tracked user interactions may include copy/paste events, explicit user highlighting, social sharing, and user voting. Key passages of electronic content may be identified based on the tracked user…

System and method for ensemble expert diversification via bidding and control thereof

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141237
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. A bid is received, from an expert during training, for a training sample with an amount within a level of available bidding currency associated with the expert. The training sample is used for training a model associated with the expert. It is determined whether the expert is among at least one winner selected based on bids from one or more experts. If the expert is among the at least one…

Method and system for providing pre-approved A/A data buckets

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141097
The present teaching generally relates to detecting providing pre-validated data buckets for online experiments. In a non-limiting embodiment, user activity data representing user activity for a first plurality of user identifiers may be obtained. A first set of values and a second values, representing first and second user engagement parameters, respectively, may be generated for each user identifier based on the user activity data. A first ranking and a second ranking may be determined…

Synchronization of streaming content using live edge offsets

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12137133
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving a request from a client device to join a room, the room associate with a plurality of other client devices streaming multimedia content; adding the client device to the room in response to the request; computing a synchronization time for the client based on time values associated with the client device and the other client devices; and transmitting the synchronization time to the client device,…

Method and system for serving personalized content to enhance user experience

Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number: 12132694
A method for presenting personalized content to a user includes receiving user data corresponding to a user having a user profile, the user data including at least one or more messages in a user mailbox and a user web browser history within a network, extracting one or more data tags from the received user data, associated at least one data tag with a message, finding information in the network that corresponds to the associated data tag, generating a notification for the user, the…

Systems and methods for syndicated distribution of electronic content

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12126679
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…

Programmatic control channel for automated data distribution

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12126599
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing a programmatic control channel for granting or denying access to user data. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving an input stream of data including user data and a first regulatory control channel (RCC) data structure; building a final RCC data structure based on the first RCC data structure and a stored RCC data structure; retrieving a regulatory query context (RQC) from a data requestor; applying one…

Systems and methods for forecasting based on categorized user membership probability

Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number: 12125053
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining an estimate of available user impressions on a network, comprising receiving a request for an estimate of available user impressions for viewing one or more media elements on a network, the request comprising one or more viewer demographic group limitations. A request may be received to include deterministic users and probabilistic users in the estimate of available user impressions. A number of deterministic users may be determined based…

Systems and methods for determining user engagement with electronic devices

Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number: 12117918
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining an engagement level of a user interacting with an electronic program, comprising receiving or determining a decision node tree, each node in the decision node tree corresponding to a user decision point in the electronic program, determining a number of levels in the decision node tree, determining a user traversed count comprising a number of levels the user has traversed in the decision node tree, and determining the engagement level of…

Configuring output controls on a per-online identity and/or a per-online resource basis

Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number: 12120458
A process includes receiving, from a user identity, instructions for output characteristics including one or more of audio characteristics for rendering or capturing audio data or visual characteristics for rendering or capturing visual data. The process also includes determining, in response to the received instructions, output controls which effect the one or more of audio characteristics or visual characteristics, and associating the output controls with an online identity or…

Systems and methods for multi-dimensional electronic content performance predictor and decision automation

Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number: 12118047
Systems and methods are disclosed for vertical integration of a multi-dimensional machine learning algorithm with a digital content management system. A variety of machine learning algorithms are implemented to aid publishers in the discovery of digital content. In contrast to prior methods, which perform retroactive assessments on digital content performance, the instant methods train machine learning algorithms to predict future performance of digital content items. As digital content…