公开(公告)号：US20170270122A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-21

申请号：US15074028

申请日：2016-03-18

Applicant: YAHOO! INC.

Inventor： Yunlong He ,  Dawei Yin ,  Yi Chang

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06N99/00

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, 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 methods provide a unified digital content discovery framework that implements a combination of a logistic loss function and a pair-wise loss function for information retrieval. The logistic loss function reduces non-relevant images from appearing in the retrieved results, while the pair-wise loss function ensures that the highest-quality content is included in such results. The combination of such functions provides a search information retrieval system with the novel functionality of quantifying a search results' relevance and quality in accordance with the searcher's intent.

公开(公告)号：US09736216B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-15

申请号：US13727443

申请日：2012-12-26

Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.

Inventor： Ian C. Rogers ,  Matthew Kozlov

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06Q30/02

CPC classification number: H04L67/025 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04L29/08099

Abstract: A method and network architecture through which user-specific media profile data can be made available to third parties. A browser is optionally enhanced to facilitate playback and control of one or more media players, thereby allowing the user to play content via the browser. As the user plays content in the browser or any of the media players, information is collected about the content and stored in a database. By monitoring all media-related interactions made by the user within the browser, the collected content information can encompass information from a wide range of sources. User-specific profile data is then determined based on the collected data and such user-specific profile data is made available to third parties. The user-specific profile data can be used, for example, for social networking purposes, and may also be used to drive advertisements or other content to the user.

公开(公告)号：US09728960B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-08

申请号：US14839819

申请日：2015-08-28

Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.

Inventor： Mozan Totani ,  Jesus Lalo Suarez ,  Barry C. Bianculli ,  Thomas Trevino ,  Bob Lytle ,  Norman Holt

IPC: H02J3/00 ,  H02J3/38 ,  H02J9/06

CPC classification number: H02J3/005 ,  H02J3/381 ,  H02J9/062 ,  Y10T307/391

Abstract: Multimode distribution systems and methods are described. A multimode distribution system includes a first source interface for coupling to a first power source, a second source interface for coupling to a second power source, and a first selection device to be coupled via a first connection matrix and the first source interface with the first power source to provide main power to one or more power consumption devices. The multimode distribution system includes a second selection device to be coupled via a second connection matrix and the first source interface with the first power source to provide main power to one or more additional power consumption devices. The second selection device is to be coupled via the second connection matrix and the second source interface with the second power source to provide alternative power to the additional power consumption devices.

公开(公告)号：US09727656B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-08

申请号：US13935514

申请日：2013-07-04

Applicant: YAHOO! INC.

Inventor： Hsuan-Hao Chan ,  Yi-Chun Chuang ,  Ting-Liang Chou

IPC: G06F17/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F17/30873 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F17/3089 ,  G06F17/30905 ,  G06F17/30961 ,  G06Q30/0277

Abstract: A system and method for generating an interactive sitemap of a website includes steps of: receiving an identifier of a user visiting the website; storing identifiers of the website pages visited by the user; associating the website page identifiers with the user identifier; capturing a snapshot of each website page visited by the user; determining website pages recommended for the user, but not yet visited by the user; capturing a snapshot of at least one recommended website page; and generating the interactive sitemap that includes a sitemap tree structure of the website with selectable nodes representing the website pages visited by the user and the website pages recommended for the user. When the user rolls over one of the selectable nodes, presenting the snapshot within the in-page window.

公开(公告)号：US09715546B1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-25

申请号：US15047003

申请日：2016-02-18

Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.

Inventor： Payman Mohassel ,  Ian Miers

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F17/30628 ,  G06F12/1408 ,  G06F17/30286 ,  G06F17/30696 ,  G06F17/30864 ,  G06F21/602 ,  G06F21/6227 ,  G06F2212/1052

Abstract: The present teaching relates to searching encrypted data. In one example, a search request is received for encrypted documents. An encrypted query is generated based on the search request. The encrypted query is sent to a server that stores a first encrypted index and a second encrypted index. The first encrypted index maps encrypted keywords to full blocks each of which has a same size and is fully filled with encrypted document identities (IDs). The second encrypted index maps encrypted keywords to partial blocks each of which has the same size and is partially filled with encrypted document IDs. Based on the encrypted query, one or more encrypted document IDs are determined by searching against both the first encrypted index and the second encrypted index. A search result is generated based on the one or more encrypted document IDs. The search result is provided in response to the search request.

公开(公告)号：US09710447B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-18

申请号：US14215925

申请日：2014-03-17

Applicant: YAHOO! INC.

Inventor： Jia Li ,  Xiangnan Kong

IPC: G06F17/00 ,  G06F17/24 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/62

CPC classification number: G06F17/241 ,  G06F17/30598 ,  G06K9/00677 ,  G06K9/6296

Abstract: System, method and architecture for providing improved visual recognition by modeling visual content, semantic content and an implicit social network representing individuals depicted in a collection of content, such as visual images, photographs, etc. which network may be determined based on co-occurrences of individuals represented by the content, and/or other data linking the individuals. In accordance with one or more embodiments, using images as an example, a relationship structure may comprise an implicit structure, or network, determined from co-occurrences of individuals in the images. A kernel jointly modeling content, semantic and social network information may be built and used in automatic image annotation and/or determination of relationships between individuals, for example.

公开(公告)号：US09710433B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-18

申请号：US14093408

申请日：2013-11-29

Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.

Inventor： Simon Kayode Osindero ,  Robert Jaros ,  Eric Willis ,  Clayton Mellina ,  Anastasia Svetlichnaya

IPC: G06F17/22 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F17/212 ,  G06F17/3087 ,  G06F17/30905 ,  G06F17/30997

Abstract: Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to dynamic display of representations of digital content for user interaction on computing devices, for example, including displaying a collection of content items on a display of a computing device, wherein a two-or-more-dimensional spatial arrangement of individual content items of the displayed collection comprises individual content items being positioned relative to other individual content items based, at least in part, on analytic characterizations of one or more attributes of the individual content items.

公开(公告)号：US20170195700A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US14985692

申请日：2015-12-31

Applicant: YAHOO! INC.

Inventor： Haojian Jin ,  Zheng Wen ,  Yale Song

IPC: H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/845

CPC classification number: H04N21/234381 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/234345 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/4398 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/440281 ,  H04N21/4542 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a content-adaptive digital media content adjustment system, method and architecture. Playback rate of a media content item comprising audio and video content can be increased by removing a portion of the content item's audio content and a corresponding portion of the content item's video content. An increased playback rate of a multimedia content item is accomplished by decreasing the length of the multimedia content item by removing portions of the multimedia content item's audio and video content.

公开(公告)号：US20170193037A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US14984300

申请日：2015-12-30

Applicant: YAHOO! INC.

Inventor： Varun Bhagwan ,  Blake Carpenter ,  Mihajlo Grbovic ,  Doug Sharp ,  Vladan Radosavljevic ,  Nemanja Djuric

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06Q30/02

CPC classification number: G06Q30/0256

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, 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 methods transform user search keywords into equivalent keyword formats commonly used and/or found within messaging platforms, and compile a data set from such information from which a search for content can be based. The present disclosure, therefore, provides systems and methods that augment users' search terms with terms found in users' mailboxes for purposes of searching for, identifying and communicating content that is relevant to those users.

公开(公告)号：US20170193020A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US14984172

申请日：2015-12-30

Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc.

Inventor： Xing Yi ,  Zhen Yue ,  Alyssa Glass Owara ,  Shuguang Han

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06N7/00 ,  G06N99/00

CPC classification number: G06F17/30321 ,  G06F17/30477 ,  G06F17/30598 ,  G06N99/005

Abstract: One or more systems and/or methods of generating a query-goal-mission structure for a set of queries are provided. A set of queries may be evaluated to identify query information for the queries within the set of queries. The queries may be evaluated as query pairs to determine common goal probabilities (e.g., likelihood two queries correspond to a particular goal, such as to identify vacation planning information) for the query pairs. Responsive to the common goal probabilities for the query pairs exceeding a goal probability threshold, the query pairs may be grouped into goal clusters. The goal clusters may be evaluated as goal cluster pairs to determine common mission probabilities. Responsive to the common mission probabilities for the goal cluster pairs exceeding a mission probability threshold, the goal clusters may be grouped into mission clusters. The mission clusters and the goal clusters may be utilized to generate a query-goal-mission structure.