Yahoo Patent Grants

Joining and dimensional annotation in a streaming pipeline

Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number: 11956297
Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, at a stream processor, an event, the stream processor including a plurality of processing stages; generating, by the stream processor, an augmented event based on the event, the augmented event including at least one additional field not appearing in the event, the additional field generated by an operation selected from the group consisting…

Method and system for identifying and presenting important messages

Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number: 11956198
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, by a computing device, a message corresponding to a user inbox and to be added to the user inbox; applying, by the computing device, prior to adding the message to the user inbox, a message classification model to content of the message to determine one or more classifications corresponding to the message; determining, by the computing device, that the message is an important message based on…

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

Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number: 11954155
An information processing device according to the present application includes a generation unit and a providing unit. The generation unit uses a model that is trained to learn a relationship between a criterion for classifying users of a first company and a criterion for classifying users of a second company to generate a criterion (common key) for classifying the users of the second company into a first category, from the criterion for classifying the users of the first company into…

Partitioned backing store implemented in a distributed database

Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number: 11954125
Techniques for providing batch performance using a stream processor are described. In one technique, a method includes receiving an event that includes an event key and a timestamp. The method then generates a partition value and time bucket value, the partition value generated based on the event key and the time bucket value generated based on the timestamp. The event key, partition value, and time bucket value are then combined to form a database key and used in a command to a…

Systems and methods for managing secure sharing of online data

Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number: 11949671
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing online advertising data secure sharing. One method includes receiving, at a server, a request for proprietary data from a data consumer, the request including a data consumer identifier; retrieving, from a database of proprietary data, proprietary data based on the request; determining, by the server, whether the retrieved proprietary data is at least one of: designated to be processed and designated to have privileges set; processing, by…

Sorting unsorted rows of a composite dataset after a join operation

Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number: 11947927
Disclosed are embodiments for sorting rows of a dataset after a JOIN operation. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising performing a JOIN operation on an annotation dataset, the performing of the JOIN operation generating an unordered dataset; grouping a plurality of rows in the unordered dataset into a plurality of buckets, the grouping performed based on a root dataset associated with the annotation dataset; sorting each bucket, the sorting comprising sorting each bucket…

Systems and methods for video content association

Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number: 11947897
Methods and an apparatus are provided for associating video content to keywords present on the webpage of a user computer. Furthermore, the method includes creating a link on the webpage from the keyword which displays the video file when the link is activated. In addition, a system for video content association includes a video association controller configured to receive a request for video content association when a webpage is requested by a user computer and determine whether the…

Oversampling for imbalanced test data

Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number: 11947633
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for oversampling for imbalanced test data are provided. A classifier is configured to classify data points as either belonging to a first class or a second class. A determination may be made that the first class and the second class are imbalanced where a first number of data points estimated to be part of the first class is a threshold amount less than a second number of data points estimated to be part of the second class. An…

Certifying events in a streaming pipeline

Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number: 11947542
Disclosed are embodiments for providing batch performance using a stream processor. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising detecting a real close of books (COB) of a data transport, the real COB associated with a set of raw events transmitted over the data transport, flushing a stream processor in response to detecting the real COB, and retrieving a set of processed events from a distributed file system after the flushing is complete. A fact COB computation is then performed…

Performing operations based upon activity patterns

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11943310
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining activity patterns based upon user activity and/or performing operations based upon the activity patterns are provided. For example, activity performed using a communication interface associated with a user account may be detected. The activity may be analyzed to determine an activity pattern associated with a first set of conditions. The activity pattern may be stored in a user profile associated with the user…

Pruning for content selection

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11941669
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 sparse vector representations associated with features of the plurality of sets of information. A request for content associated with a client device may be received. A set of features associated with the request for…

Systems and methods for monitoring the display of electronic content on client devices

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11936547
At times, it may be desirable to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content. One manner of making the determination may include accessing presentation time information that indicates the time(s) at which one or more client systems present particular dynamic content and accessing event time information indicating the time(s) at which one or more…

Systems and methods for targeted advertising based on external factors

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11935091
Systems and method are disclosed for providing advertisements to users by determining the occurrence of user defined external triggering events comprising a moment. One method comprises defining a set of conditions or criteria that define a moment, collecting data associated with said set of conditions or criteria, evaluating whether the conditions or criteria are satisfied and whether the user defined moment has occurred, executing an advertisement campaign associated with said user…

System and method for feature determination and content selection

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11934472
In an example, first entities are extracted from user profiles. Second entities are extracted from content information associated with content item. User-associated metrics associated with the first entities are determined based upon the user profiles and/or content events. First vector representations of the first entities and second vector representations of the second entities are processed to generate an attention distribution array. Each value of the attention distribution array…

Computerized system and method for providing an augmented message content display

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11929964
The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that provides mechanisms for enabling message senders to dictate, control and/or create dynamic immersive content consumption experiences for recipients of their messages. The disclosed framework provides message senders with previously non-existent functionality to control the experience and environment within which their messages are consumed. Conventional systems provide recipients with capabilities to consume messages and/or…

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

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11928712
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…

Mining email inboxes for suggesting actions

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11928119
Embodiments are directed towards automatically learning user behavioral patterns when interacting with messages and based on the learned patterns, suggesting one or more predicted actions that a user might take in response to receiving subsequent message. One or more classifiers are trained and employed to predict one or more actions that a user might take in response to receiving the message. In one embodiment, the one or more predicted actions are provided suggested to the user as an…

Automatic intrusion detection method and apparatus

Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number: 11921846
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in distributional similarity identification using randomized observations. In connection with an intrusion detection system monitoring a computing system, a pair of perturbed sample sets are generating using a pair of real sample set (or real observations) and a pair of random sample sets (of randomly-selected observations), and a similarity measuring representing a level of consistency in user…

Electronic message transmission

Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number: 11922937
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for detecting trigger phrases and transmitting electronic messages to devices are provided. For example, audio received via a microphone of a first device may be monitored. Responsive to detecting a first trigger phrase in a first audio segment identified during the monitoring, a first electronic message comprising instructions to activate a microphone function of a second device may be generated and the first electronic message may…

Computerized system and method for cloud-based content creation, enhancement and/or rendering

Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number: 11922554
The disclosed systems and methods provide a cloud-based framework for the creation and/or enhancement of high quality media content for dissemination over a computerized network. The disclosed framework is configured to operate in accordance with at least one of a content creation, content enhancement and/or rendering template. Such templates can function as rules engines that call specific types of ML or AI algorithms or routines that modify the input data according to the type of…