公开(公告)号：US09830351B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-28

申请号：US14072981

申请日：2013-11-06

申请人： EXCALIBUR IP, LLC

发明人： William White ,  Malcolm Slaney

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0484

CPC分类号： G06F17/30386 ,  G06F3/04815 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F17/30017 ,  G06F17/30743 ,  G06F17/30749 ,  G06F17/30758 ,  G06F17/30769 ,  G06F17/30772 ,  G06F17/30775 ,  G11B27/105

摘要： Systems and methods for generating and playing a sequence of media objects based on a mood gradient are also disclosed. A mood gradient is a sequence of items, in which each item is media object having known characteristics or a representative set of characteristics of a media object, that is created or used by a user for a specific purpose. Given a mood gradient, one or more new media objects are selected for each item in the mood gradient based on the characteristics associated with that item. In this way, a sequence of new media objects is created but the sequence exhibits a similar variation in media object characteristics. The mood gradient may be presented to a user or created via a display illustrating a three-dimensional space in which each dimension corresponds to a different characteristic. The mood gradient may be represented as a path through the three-dimensional space and icons representing media objects are located within the three-dimensional space based on their characteristics.

公开(公告)号：US20170249311A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-31

申请号：US15055220

申请日：2016-02-26

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Dan Pelleg ,  Oleg Rokhlenko ,  Idan Szpektor ,  Yuval David Pinter ,  David Carmel ,  Shirin Oskooi ,  Somesh Jain ,  Archit Shrivastava

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G06N5/02

CPC分类号： G06N5/04

摘要： Methods and devices for assessing the quality of user-generated content are described. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for measuring the quality of a user-generated answer to a question by combining various factors, including question-answer surface word vector similarity, question-answer explicit semantic analysis vector similarity, answer-answer explicit sematic analysis vector similarity, query performance predictor, sentiment analysis, textual analysis of the answer, and reputation of the answerer. The method uses a learning procedure to determine the best algorithm for measuring the overall quality of the answer based on these factors.

公开(公告)号：US20170220617A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-03

申请号：US15012250

申请日：2016-02-01

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Edward Bortnikov ,  Ohad Shacham ,  Idit Keidar

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/2329

摘要： Multi-thread systems and methods are described for concurrently handling requests to commit data updates to a database by a plurality of data transactions. The database preferably supports multi-versioning and the data transactions are preferably isolated by snapshot isolation. In one embodiment, concurrent and lock-free handling of requests to commit data updates includes performing two types of concurrent data conflict detection. A transaction proceeds to commit only if it passes both types of conflict detection. The first type of conflict detection is based on a hash map between data keys and their commit timestamps whereas the second type of conflict detection is based on a log that keeps track of the status of transactions whose requests to commit are actively being processed. In another embodiment, concurrent conflict detection for data items in concurrent transactions is broken down into buckets and locks are used for accessing each bucket. These systems and methods maintain transactional integrity to database while improving throughput by maximizing concurrency of data commits in a multi-thread environment.

公开(公告)号：US09721389B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-01

申请号：US14195668

申请日：2014-03-03

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Lars Erik Holmquist

IPC分类号： G06T19/00 ,  G06T7/00

CPC分类号： G06T19/006 ,  G06T7/74 ,  G06T2207/30204

摘要： In one embodiment, a first perspective of a three-dimensional marker may be detected, where the three-dimensional marker has a shape that presents a different appearance from every angle. A first three-dimensional virtual overlay corresponding to the first perspective of the three-dimensional marker may be identified or generated. The first three-dimensional virtual overlay corresponding to the first perspective of the three-dimensional marker may be projected or displayed such that the first three-dimensional virtual overlay substantially covers the first perspective of the three-dimensional marker.

公开(公告)号：US20170193107A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US13916562

申请日：2013-06-12

申请人： YAHOO! INC.

发明人： Doug IMBRUCE ,  Owen BOSSOLA ,  Rasmus KNUTTSSON ,  Tommy CHHENG ,  Hakim EL HATTAB

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/9535

摘要： Provided herein are mixed-media modules with functional layers that can be used to provided additional information to targeted audience. Systems and methods are disclosed for performing processing involved with search, such as processing search information to return search results. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method for processing information to return search results including mixed-media media presentation(s) selectable by a user. Moreover, such method may involve user interaction to manipulate the presentation, display various media and/or effect other functionality. Further implementations may involve generation of interactive, visually rich mixed-media content of high information density providing improved user experience and/or improved value to various participants.

公开(公告)号：US20170154356A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-01

申请号：US14954118

申请日：2015-11-30

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Michele Trevisiol ,  Gabriele Tolomei ,  Nicola Barbieri ,  Mounia Lalmas ,  Puneet Mohan Sangal ,  Fabrizio Silvestri

IPC分类号： G06Q30/02

摘要： An online advertising system receives an advertisement from an advertiser. The system analyzes the advertisement, extracts its features and provides to the advertiser a quality rating for the advertisement which depends on a user engagement factor such as the predicted dwell time for the ad, given its features. The system further provides to the advertiser suggestions for improvements to the advertisement, such as a list of actionable guidelines that can improve the expected dwell time of the ad, and likely its conversion rate.

公开(公告)号：US09668375B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-30

申请号：US14210171

申请日：2014-03-13

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Mozan Totani ,  Barry Bianculli

IPC分类号： H05K7/20 ,  E04H5/00

CPC分类号： H05K7/20136 ,  E04H2005/005 ,  H05K7/20709 ,  H05K7/20736 ,  H05K7/20836

摘要： A building for a data center (or server farm) includes a stack structure that interfaces with an environment and one or more housings coupled to a floor and the stack structure. Each of the housings includes one or more racks with a plurality of servers and each of the servers includes a computer fan capable of varying speed or reversing direction. The building also includes one or more filters between the one or more housings and the environment and one or more walls operable to be between the one or more filters and the environment.

公开(公告)号：US20170149710A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-25

申请号：US14949024

申请日：2015-11-23

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Nadav Golbandi ,  Oren Sholomo Somekh ,  Rodrigo Setti ,  Srinivas Raovasudev

IPC分类号： H04L12/58 ,  H04W12/08

CPC分类号： H04L51/12 ,  H04L51/10 ,  H04L51/14 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W12/08

摘要： Method, systems, and computer-readable for selectively sharing media among two or more client devices. Initially, media (e.g., image(s), video, audio, text, etc.) can be rendered via a first client device. Portions of the media rendered on a first client device can be selectively encoded, thereby masking the selectively encoded portions. The media can then be shared, including the encoded portions, with a second client device. Using the first client device, an operation can be implemented for authorizing decoding of the portions of the media by the second client device, thereby allowing the decoded portions of the media to be rendered by the second client device without masking.

公开(公告)号：US09654839B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-16

申请号：US15295916

申请日：2016-10-17

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Ronald Jacoby ,  Scott Lincke

IPC分类号： H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/6547 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/4782 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/2668

CPC分类号： H04N21/6547 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N21/2393 ,  H04N21/251 ,  H04N21/25825 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/4782 ,  H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/4826 ,  H04N2005/44556

摘要： A method for providing an interface for a television device is provided, including the following method operations: identifying available services for consumption on a television device, wherein the available services include two or more of a broadcast television service, an on-demand video service, and an internet content service; determining a current date and time; determining content items available for consumption from each of the available services at the current date and time; determining an allocation of display locations in a cross-platform interface for content items from each of the available services, the allocation defining a relative amount of display locations for each of the available services based on a device profile associated with the television device; assigning content items to the display locations in accordance with the determined allocation.

公开(公告)号：US09621648B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-11

申请号：US14816965

申请日：2015-08-03

申请人： Yahoo! Inc.

发明人： Aman Teja ,  Vineeth Chandran ,  Prashant R. Kumar ,  Sourav Chakraborty

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04L67/1053 ,  G06F17/30876 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/1046 ,  H04L67/306

摘要： Techniques are provided for a peer-to-peer web traffic management. A first mapping between identifiers and peers in a network is established. Upon receiving a first request associated with a first identifier and classifiers, based, at least in part, on the first identifier, a first peer retrieves a first global counter snapshot and a first local increment counter, and uses them to determine whether the first peer can service the first request. If the determination is positive, then the first peer services the first request, and updates the first local increment counter. If the first local increment counter exceeded a threshold value, then the first local increment counter is transmitted to a second peer, and then reset to zero. In response to the first peer receiving a first global counter associated with the first global counter snapshot, the first global counter snapshot is updated with the first global counter.