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…
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…
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.
Systems and methods for generating travel-related recommendations using electronic communication data
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12045861
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating recommendations to users based on historical travel information and electronic communication data. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for automating the transmission of electronic travel-related recommendations to users by consistently monitoring electronic messages received at an electronic communication mailbox corresponding to a user. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging historical user data, data…
Systems and methods for online traffic filtration by electronic content providers
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12045852
Systems and methods are disclosed for traffic filtration by content providers. One method includes receiving a content request from a device of a user; determining whether one or more container tags are associated with requested content; determining, prior to responding to the content request, whether the content request is by a user based on the content request and the one or more container tags; generating, prior to responding to the content request, an ad request based on the content…
Method and system for causing a browser to preload web page components
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12038996
Disclosed is a server computer that receives, over a network from a computing device, a request for a search suggestion related to a search query that is input into a search term entry area displayed by a web browser executing on the computing device. In response to receiving the request, the server computer transmits over the network to the computing device, instructions for the computing device to display a search suggestion related to the search query, the search suggestion…
Systems and methods for tracking sharing of web content
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12041141
Systems and methods are provided for tracking sharing of an electronic content. An exemplary method may include receiving a request to access content associated with a web address by a user. Based on a unique identity assigned to the user and the web address, a unique tracking web address may be generated. This tracking web address may be shared with additional users. As other users request content associated with the tracking web address, information regarding the sharing of the…
Computerized systems and methods for group identification and content delivery
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039555
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for group identification and content delivery. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes operations performed by at least one processor. The operations of the method include generating, based on identification data, an identification profile for each member of a set of members, the set of members being associated with a viewing group. The set of members may comprise all of the…
System and method for social filtering of comments
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039493
A request is received, over a network from a requesting user to sort a plurality of comments relating to online content by a social status of a respective one of a plurality of commenters associated with each of the plurality of comments. The social status of the each of the plurality of commenters is determined using a computing device. The plurality of comments are sorted, using the computing device, by the social status of the respective one of the plurality of commenters associated…
Negative signal probability determination and content item selection
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12035001
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a sequence of actions performed using a first interface on a first client device may be identified. A first negative signal probability may be determined based upon the sequence of actions. The first negative signal probability may correspond to a probability of receiving a negative signal associated with a first content item from the first client device responsive to presenting the first content item via…
Computerized system and method for suppressing audio leakage
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12034781
The present disclosure provides novel systems and methods of suppressing audio leakage in watch-together sessions. In an embodiment, a device is provided comprising a speaker, a microphone, a media player configured to provide a first media content audio, and a peer to peer (“P2P”) communications engine including a local loopback module and a conferencing module. The local loopback module configured to receive the first media content audio, provide a second media content audio, and…
Automatic electronic message filtering method and apparatus
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12034529
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in electronic messaging and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for generating electronic message filters and for using electronic message filters comprising item category filtering criteria and having an automatically-determined expiration. The discloses systems and…
Pruning field weights for content selection
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026754
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A machine learning model may be trained using a plurality of sets of information. One or more pruning operations may be performed in association with the training to generate a machine learning model with a sparse set of field weights associated with feature fields associated with features of the plurality of sets of auction information. A request for content associated with a client device may be received. A set of…
Systems and methods for ad-supported mobile data plans or in-app purchases
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026747
Methods are disclosed for providing an ad-supported mobile data plan, where ad display may be tied to data usage levels and user input. A method includes receiving, using at least one processor, user interaction with advertisement content displayed on a device; retrieving, using the at least one processor, a data usage limit associated with the device; and causing a change in the data usage limit based on the user interaction with the advertisement content displayed on the device.
Systems and methods for control of event rates for segmented online campaigns
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026741
Allocating bids for providing content within a segmented campaign is controlled to ensure that an event rate associated with the provided content meets or exceeds a threshold rate. A campaign-level event rate, associated with the provided content, is estimated and provided as a feedback signal. This feedback signal is employed to dynamically update bid allocations for each of the segments, which in turn varies the number or rate of provided impressions and events. Such feedback enables…
Method and system for storing and managing digital assets
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12021804
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: obtaining, by a computing device, a set of messages, each message including message metadata and message structure, at least one message of the set of messages comprising a digital asset; clustering, by the computing device, the set of messages based on the message metadata and the message structure; classifying, by the computing device, the clusters into categories; determining, by the computing device, a…
Systems and methods for administering an online advertiser bidding interface
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020291
A computer-implemented method is provided for administering an online advertiser bidding interface. The method includes providing a bidding interface to an advertiser through a web server, by which an advertiser may bid on online advertising inventory of an online publisher, the bidding interface displaying a plurality of targeting elements; receiving targeting information from the advertiser through the targeting elements of the bidding interface and the web server; and generating an…
Horizontal skimming of composite datasets
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019601
Disclosed are embodiments for horizontally skimming composite datasets. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a script, the script including commands to access a composite dataset; pre-processing the script to identify a set of columns; loading a metadata file associated with the composite dataset file; parsing the metadata file to identify one or more datasets that include a column in the set of columns; loading data from the one or more datasets; and executing…
Systems and methods for detecting a peak in web traffic on an electronic network
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12008597
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.
