Online marketplace to facilitate the distribution of marketing services from a marketer to an online merchant

    公开(公告)号:US10026113B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-17

    申请号:US14078137

    申请日:2013-11-12

    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.

    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for use, for example, in e-commerce. E-commerce data from a merchant may be received regarding interactions of customers with a website of the merchant. Characteristics of the e-commerce data may be identified. Based at least in part on the one or more identified characteristics, a plurality of marketing actions may be selected, or automatically selected, that are potentially effective for the merchant. The selected marketing actions may be ranked based at least in part on one or more of a quality score and one or more bids associated with each of the selected marketing actions. A ranked list of the selected marketing actions may be provided, or recommended, to the merchant.

    Media forums for managing mobile generated user content and associations to articles

    公开(公告)号:US10013402B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-03

    申请号:US14076086

    申请日:2013-11-08

    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F17/2247

    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media are provided for managing user generated content in relation to content. One example method includes receiving content from a mobile device. The received content is associated to one or more entities. The method associates the received content to a media forum. The association of the content to the media forum enabling at least one discussion regarding the received content on the media forum. The media forum having an interest graph that adjusts over time. Responsive to receiving a request to view an article, the method selects the media forum to be associated with the article when the article is presented on a display, the association of the media forum to the article provides an adjustment to the interest graph of the media forum.

    Device interfacing
    15.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09971714B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-15

    申请号:US14704405

    申请日:2015-05-05

    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc.

    Inventor: Andrew Foster

    CPC classification number: G06F13/36 G06F13/4068

    Abstract: Many devices may comprise interfaces, such as serial interfaces, over which configuration and/or enablement/disablement of device features may be provided to the device. Connecting a computer to individual devices for manual configuration may be cumbersome and/or time consuming. Accordingly, as provided herein, a device interfacing component (e.g., a microcontroller integrated into an interface cable) is configured to couple to a target device. The device interfacing component may receive data streams from the target device, and may match strings, within the data streams, to expressions. If a string matches an expression (e.g., “F5 for IP setup”), then a corresponding scripted response may be executed to send a response instruction (F5, wait 10 seconds, enter key, “192,168.0.1”) to the target device. In this way, the device interfacing component may provide automated configuration for the target device and/or may be daisy chained with other device interfacing components for configuration of other target devices.

    Volume control
    16.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09971561B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-15

    申请号:US15351627

    申请日:2016-11-15

    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/165 H03G3/00 H03G3/02 H03G3/20

    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for controlling a volume level of a device are provided. For example, a first button corresponding to increasing a volume level of a device may be selected, and the volume level may be increased by a first amount (e.g., 10%). A second button corresponding to decreasing the volume level of the device may be selected. If the second button is determined to have been selected within a threshold period of time after the selection of the first button, the volume level may be decreased by a second amount (e.g., 5%). If the second button is determined to have not been selected within the threshold period of time after the selection of the first button, the volume level may be decreased by the first amount (e.g., 10%).

    TIP GENERATION
    17.
    发明申请
    TIP GENERATION 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180129732A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-10

    申请号:US15344869

    申请日:2016-11-07

    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F16/3344 G06F16/355 G06F17/277 G06N20/00

    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a set of tips for an entity are provided. For example, users may create user generated content describing an entity, such as a user review for a consumer good, a location, an event, etc. Because a user may be unable to read and digest all of the user reviews for the entity, the user may merely read a few user reviews, and thus miss out on useful information. Accordingly, tip templates, indicative of how tips are linguistically/grammatically constructed, are applied to the user reviews to automatically extract a set of tips for the entity (e.g., “make sure to bring a rain jacket”). The set of tips may be filtered to remove undesirable tips, ranked based upon usefulness, and/or diversified to remove redundant tips. In this way, a set of useful tips may be provided to the user.

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