System and method for generating user-specific interfaces
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081507
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a user-specific interface are provided. In an example, a user-specific machine learning model, for a user of an email application, may be trained based upon one or more interactions of the user with a device upon which the email application is installed. A determination may be made that an email message has been received by an email account of the user. A user-specific message interface may be generated based upon (i)…
Object defect detection
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079982
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for defect detection are provided. An image, depicting an object for evaluation to determine whether the object has a defect, is inputted into a segmentation model to identify an object region of interest of the object. An object region area of the object region of interest is calculated. A convex hull area of a convex hull encompassing the object region of interest is calculated. A ratio of the object region area to the convex hull…
Method and system for identifying recipients of a reward associated with a conversion
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079832
The present teaching relates to method and system for advertising. The method obtains information related to an operational smart attribution evaluation package (SAEP) posted on a platform. The SAEP is related to a conversion associated with an advertisement displayed by a plurality of entities. The method parses the SAEP to obtain a conversion parameter, and generates a claim for the conversion based on the conversion parameter and information related to the advertisement, if the…
Computerized system and method for interest profile generation and digital content dissemination based therefrom
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079262
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 compiling, updating and dynamically managing a confidence graph for a user that leads to generation of a scored interest profile for the user that content providers can utilize as a basis for disseminating their…
Method and system for detecting fraudulent advertisement activity
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12073430
The present teaching relates to a fraud detecting system and method for providing protection against fraudulent advertisement requests. Upon receiving a request for an advertisement, the system extracts an identifier, associated with a source from which the request originates, included in the request. The system determines whether the extracted identifier is included in a list of designated identifiers, and when the identifier is included in the list, the system denies the request for…
Generating dynamic content item recommendations
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12073429
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating dynamic content item recommendations are provided. Content item information, extracted from message data, is aggregated to calculate popularity and attributes of content items. The content items are ranked based upon the popularity and attributes to generate a ranked list of content items. Exploration traffic is served utilizing a set of eligible content items selected from the ranked list of content items. An eligible…
Neural contextual bandit based computational recommendation method and apparatus
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12067607
Disclosed are systems and methods utilizing neural contextual bandit 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 make item recommendations using latent relations and latent representations, which can improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems.…
Tracking online conversions attributable to offline events
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12067591
Systems and methods are provided for determining a quantity of network location visitors that are likely generated or encouraged by specific offline events. A corresponding number of leads may then be attributed to and associated with those specific events. Ongoing conversion activity of those visitors may be tracked and associated with the offline events. Conversions of those visitors may be attributed entirely or partially to one or more specific offline events. The effectiveness of…
Model training framework
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12067462
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for a model training framework are provided. A definition and configuration of a model are received. Computations that the model will perform during training of the model are setup based upon the definition and configuration. Summary statistics to be tracked during training are specified. A batch of training data is input into the model to train the model based upon hyper parameters specified in the configuration of the model, and…
Systems and methods for allocating electronic advertising opportunities
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12062065
A system, apparatus, and method are presented for allocating for allocating advertisements for display are provided that include collecting a plurality of advertising spaces, each advertising space having at least one associated advertising space variable; collecting a media inventory, the media inventory comprising a plurality of advertisements, each advertisement having at least one associated advertisement variable; receiving a bid price and a target inventory percentage for each…
System and method for query to ad matching using deep neural net based query embedding
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061979
The present teaching relates to obtaining a model for identifying content matching a query. Training data are received which include queries, advertisements, and hyperlinks. A plurality of subwords are identified from each of the queries and a plurality of vectors for the plurality of subwords of each of the queries are obtained. Via a neural network, a vector for each of the queries is derived based on a plurality of vectors for the plurality of subwords of the query. A query/ads model…
System and method for identifying approximate K-nearest neighbors in web scale clustering
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061630
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for identifying k nearest neighbors. One or more KNN lists corresponding to one or more source data points are received. Each KNN list includes K neighbors of a source data point and each of the K neighbors is a data point represented by an index. Neighbor pairs and reverse neighbor pairs are generated based on the one or more KNN lists. The neighbor pairs and reverse neighbor pairs having the same source data…
Duplicate detection and replay to ensure exactly-once delivery in a streaming pipeline
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061608
Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising processing a plurality of events using a stream processor and executing a deduplication process on the plurality of events using the stream processor. The plurality of events is outputted to a streaming queue and a close of books (COB) of a data transport is detected. Then, an audit process is initiated in response to detecting the COB signal, the audit…
Computerized system and method for fine-grained event detection and content hosting therefrom
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056928
The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that provides mechanisms for performing cost-effective, accurate and scalable detection and recognition of fine-grained events. The framework functions by training high precision and high recall object/optical character recognition (OCR) models and aligning video frames to text commentaries of the videos (e.g., licensed play-by-play). The disclosed framework operates as a single algorithm that performs multimodal alignments…
Systems and methods for selective distribution of online content
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056195
Systems and methods are disclosed for online distribution of content. One method includes: receiving, from a first content publisher, a request to publish, on a web page of a second content publisher in a network of publishers, a link to or preview of content of the first content publisher, wherein the request includes at least one parameter associated with at least one attribute of a desired viewer of the link to or preview of content; receiving, from the second content publisher in the…
Computerized system and method for performing parameterization of columns in a virtual semantic layer
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056113
The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that parameterizes columns in a templated virtual semantic layer. The disclosed framework enables inter- and cross-column relationships between stored data within a SQL database to be determined and stored, and then leveraged at query time to enable an optimized search of the data within the database. The disclosed framework enables a database to be construed, modified and/or configured according to a hierarchy, and/or with…
Method and system for measuring user engagement with content items
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056037
Method, system, and programs for measuring user engagement with content items. In one example, a query is received. A set of content items related to the query is obtained. A presentation of at least one content item of the set of content items is provided on a user interface. A user activity related to the at least one content item is determined. An amount of time between a time at which the presentation of the at least one content item is provided on the user interface and a time at…
Method and system for sketch based search
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050639
The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for searching content. A sketch of an object is obtained from a user. The sketch is processed by a neural network to generate an image corresponding to the sketch of the object. One or more features are extracted from the image, and one or more images previously stored are identified that have features similar to the one or more features. The one or more images are provided to the user.
Computerized system and method for determining and displaying message content in a user's inbox
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12052214
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content communicating, displaying, generating, 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…
Search query generation based upon received text
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050658
In an example, a first set of text may be received from a client device. A set of content items may be selected from among content items based upon the first set of text and a plurality of sets of content item text associated with the content items. A set of terms may be determined based upon the first set of text and the set of content items. A similarity profile associated with the set of terms may be generated. The similarity profile is indicative of similarity scores associated with…
