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An authentication apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, a second specifying unit, and an authentication unit. The acquiring unit acquires context information on a target user who becomes a target for authentication. ... Yahoo Inc
An information processing device according to the present application includes an interaction unit, a detection unit, and a change unit. The interaction unit performs interaction through dialogue with a user of a terminal device using the terminal device. ... Yahoo Inc
Generating device, generating method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A generating device includes an accepting unit that accepts a speech of a user. The generating device includes a generating unit that, by inputting the speech of the user to a single model in which a group of parameters are learned simultaneously to output a response directly from a speech, generates a response to the speech.. ... Yahoo Inc
Determination method, determination apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A determination method according to the present application comprises predicting, based on information related to a predetermined ad spot that is displayed on a terminal device, amount-of-money information that is related to a billing amount billed to a first type advertisement distribution server, which has a predetermined relationship with content that includes the ad spot, when a first advertisement distributed by the first type advertisement distribution server is displayed on the ad spot, requesting, distribution of an advertisement from a second type advertisement distribution server, and determining, when the second advertisement has been acquired from the second type advertisement distribution server, to display the second advertisement on the ad spot and determines, when the second advertisement has not been acquired from the second type advertisement distribution server, to request the first advertisement as the advertisement to be displayed on the ad spot from the first type advertisement distribution server.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Calculation apparatus, calculation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A calculation apparatus includes an accepting unit that accepts, from a set-up person, a budget amount that is a maximum amount of compensation for distribution of information. The calculation apparatus includes a calculating unit that calculates, in accordance with the budget amount, the number of users who become the distribution destination of the information.. ... Yahoo Inc
Analysis device, analysis method, and computer readable storage medium
An analysis device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determiner. The acquisition unit acquires an evaluation value for evaluating an action taken by a user who has viewed an electronic page containing summary information of content. ... Yahoo Inc
Online user space exploration for recommendation
To maximize the accuracy and efficiency of predicting users that will enjoy targeted content, a proposed content selection solution looks to combine a first strategy of utilizing selection rules with a second strategy of utilizing machine based learning models. By combining the selection rules-based approach and the machine learning model-based approach, the proposed content selection solution is able to consider and recommend a wider range of users for each available content.. ... Yahoo Inc
An information processing system includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first information about the content of a content item, a second acquisition unit that acquires second information about a location of a user who has accessed the content item, and a deriving unit that derives third information based on the first information acquired by the first acquisition unit and the second information acquired by the second acquisition unit, the third information associating a factor included in the content of the content item with a specific area in which the user is located.. . ... Yahoo Inc
A method implemented by at least one server computer is provided, including: providing, over the internet, access to a plurality of topics, wherein each topic includes, and further provides access to, a plurality of posted items; recording interaction data for the plurality of topics, the interaction data identifying user activity occurring within each of the topics; analyzing the interaction data to identify clusters of topics that exhibit similar behavioral patterns; for each cluster of topics, generating a community that includes the topics in the cluster; providing, over the internet, access to the communities, wherein accessing a given community further provides access to the topics included in that community, which further provide access to the posted items that are included in the topics within that community.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for query optimization
The present teaching relates to methods and systems for query optimization by receiving a query stream comprising a plurality of queries from one or more applications via the network; determining relationships among the plurality of queries, wherein each of the relationships is associated with a prior probability; modeling the plurality of queries based on the relationships with the corresponding prior probabilities; re-writing at least one of the plurality of queries based on the model for the plurality of queries by, for each of the at least one of the plurality of queries generating a new query based on more than one query in the plurality of queries that are related via one of the relationships with a corresponding prior probability, and updating the corresponding prior probability based on the model of the plurality of queries.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Provision device, provision method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment a provision device includes a generation unit that generates a distributed representation of each context on the basis of a relative connection that multiple contexts have. The provision device includes a provision unit that provides information representing a change between a distributed representation of a given context that is generated before distribution information about the given context is distributed and a distributed representation of the given context that is generated after the distribution information is distributed.. ... Yahoo Inc
Provision device, provision method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment a provision device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a context representing a leading index to lead an impression of a given context. The provision device includes a specifying unit that specifies, from distributed representations of respective contexts that are generated on the basis of a relative connection multiple contexts have, other distributed representations having a given connection with a distributed representation of the given context and a distributed representation of the context representing the leading index. ... Yahoo Inc
Determination method, determination apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A determination method according to the present application comprises acquiring a first advertisement from a first type advertisement distribution server that has a predetermined relationship with content that includes a predetermined ad spot displayed on a terminal device, requesting, by sending amount-of-money information that is based on a condition related to the first type advertisement distribution server, distribution of an advertisement from a second type advertisement distribution server, and determining, when the second advertisement has been acquired from the second type advertisement distribution server, to display the second advertisement on the ad spot and determines, when the second advertisement has not been acquired from the second type advertisement distribution server, to display the first advertisement on the ad spot.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for adaptive online updating of ad related models
The present teaching relates to generating an updated model related to advertisement selection. In one example, a request is obtained for updating a model to be utilized for selecting an advertisement. ... Yahoo Inc
Entity disambiguation
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for entity disambiguation are provided. For example, a document may be analyzed to identify a first mention and a second mention. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically determining and providing digital content within an electronic communication system
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Selecting device, selecting method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment a selecting device includes an acquiring unit that acquires experience information that indicates experience of a user in a predetermined event. The selecting device includes a selecting unit that selects information to provide to the user based on the experience information.. ... Yahoo Inc
Methods and systems for processing viewability metrics
Methods and systems for processing viewability metrics are provided. A method includes receiving, by a processor of an online advertising platform, online advertisement viewability metrics collected by a system of an online content publisher. ... Yahoo Inc
Methods and systems for monitoring viewable impressions of online content
Methods and systems to monitor viewable impressions of online advertisements are provided. A method includes receiving a request to provide an online advertisement for display on a user device. ... Yahoo Inc
Name-based classification of electronic account users
Communication accounts may contain information such as account holder names, contact lists, and communication logs. Such information may be processed for generating features that may be used as corpus for a machine learning algorithm for developing classifiers of names. ... Yahoo Inc
Automatic token based secure content streaming method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in secure content access, distribution and download 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Identifying constructive sub-dialogues
Software on a website hosting an online forum extracts a plurality of sub-dialogues from each thread in a corpus from the online forum. The software obtains one or more sub-dialogue annotations associated with each sub-dialogue. ... Yahoo Inc
Scalable multilingual named-entity recognition
Software on a website serves a user of an online content aggregation service a first article that the user views. The software extracts named entities from the first article using a named-entity recognizer. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically generating and providing interactive query suggestions within an electronic mail system
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Controlling access to a shared resource
The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to controlling access to a shared resource including, for example, a memory unit. The disclosed techniques may include receiving a configuration parameter relating to a relationship between read and write requests that are initiated by concurrent processes and stored in read and write queues, respectively, for accessing the shared resource. ... Yahoo Inc
Udping-continuous one-way monitoring of multiple network links
Methods and apparatus for monitoring network links are disclosed. In one implementation, a client device composes a plurality of data packets and transmits the data packets via a network to a server via two or more ports of the client device. ... Yahoo Inc
Digital assistant
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamically selecting a personality for a digital assistant are provided. For example, audio associated with a conversation with a digital assistant may be received from a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Managing under- and over-represented content topics in content pools
The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to techniques to manage representation of a content topic in a content pool. The disclosed techniques may include determining availability of content related to the content topic based on a set of content items in the content pool, and determining a level of interest of a set of users in the content topic based at least on information related to interaction of the set of users with the set of content items. ... Yahoo Inc
Virtual keyboard
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating user input are provided. For example, a keyboard display trigger event for a computing device may be identified (e.g., a user interacting with a text input interface). ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for classifying network requests
Methods, systems and programming for classifying network requests. In one example, a network request for content to be fetched by a content server is received from a client device. ... Yahoo Inc
Determination device, determination method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A determination device disclosed herein includes an acquiring unit, a specifying unit, and a determination unit. The acquiring unit acquires account information that is information related to a transaction of an account opened by a first company and evaluation information that is information related to evaluations of companies. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for facilitating a user-machine conversation
The present teaching relates to facilitating a user-machine conversation. In one example, a query is obtained from a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Intermediate support system, intermediate support method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An intermediate support system includes a receiving unit that receives, from a first user, a purchase request for a product or a service sold in a store; a user extracting unit that extracts a second user who is at least one of a user who is currently visiting the store and a user who is highly likely to visit the store; and an intermediating unit that sends, based on the purchase request received by the receiving unit, to a terminal device that is used by the second user extracted by the user extracting unit, information that requests to purchase the product or the service.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Decision device, decision method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment a decision device refers to condition information, in which a plurality of conditions that indicates an attribute of a distribution destination of predetermined information and that includes a condition in which an allowable range is set is represented by a boolean operation expression, and that determines whether the attribute information matches the plurality of the conditions. The decision device determines, when it is determined that, from among the plurality of the conditions, the attribute information matches the condition in which the allowable range is set, whether the attribute information satisfies the allowable range that is set in the condition. ... Yahoo Inc
Calculation device, index information, calculation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment a calculation device includes a determination unit that determines whether each of the pieces of the attribute information matches each of the conditions. The calculation device includes a decision unit that decides, on the basis of whether the continuous values included in the index information that is associated with the condition determined to be matched with the attribute information continue up to the predetermined value, whether the predetermined information is specified as the distribution target. ... Yahoo Inc
Generation device, generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A generation device according to the subject application includes an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires multiple pieces of vector information that correspond to each search target during the proximity search. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically sharing device pairing credentials across multiple devices
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Message classification
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for message classification are provided. For example, a set of messages is clustered into a set of clusters. ... Yahoo Inc
Dynamic scan code generation
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamic scan code generation are provided. For example, a meta tag, comprising a user identifier of a user and a promotion code for a consumer good, is extracted from information associated with the user, such as from an email sent to the user. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for automatic detection and prevention of quality issues in online experiments
The present teaching relates to managing online experiments. In one example, a plurality of experiment layers is created with respect to a plurality of online users. ... Yahoo Inc
Calculation device, calculation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A calculation device according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a calculation unit. The acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of first triple information indicating a relationship related to three types of elements and a plurality of pieces of second triple information obtained based on a conceptual system in the plurality of pieces of the first triple information. ... Yahoo Inc
Determination device through clustering analysis of position history data, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to an embodiment a determination device through a clustering analysis of position history data incudes an estimation unit that, by conducting a clustering analysis on history data of pieces of geographical position information on earth of a plurality of movable bodies that is obtained by a positioning device, based on a horizontal position constituted of a latitude and a longitude and a lapse of time, acquires pieces of area information indicating a characteristic of geographical area in which there is a tendency for the movable bodies to be positioned, the history data being accumulated sequentially in a storage device with pieces of movable body identification information and pieces of timestamp information, and a determination unit that determines whether the movable body is present in a specified point in time and the geographical area, based on the pieces of area information acquired for one of the movable bodies.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Commentary generation
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for commentary generation are provided. For example, a conversation, occurring through a conversation interface associated with a content item, is monitored to identify a tone of the conversation (e.g., users discussing a news article). ... Yahoo Inc
Creating device, creating method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A creating device according to the present application includes an acquiring unit, and a creating unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of pieces of triple information indicating a relationship related to three types of elements. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically providing networked devices non-native functionality
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Automated image ads
A system for generating an advertisement is provided. The system may receive an advertisement request from a client device and select an advertisement from a database in response to the advertisement request. ... Yahoo Inc
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An information processing apparatus discloses herein includes an acquiring unit and an estimating unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of pieces of identity information including a keyword based on an operation performed by a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Volume control
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%). ... Yahoo Inc
Subscription transfer
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for transferring subscriptions are provided. For example, a user (e.g., and/or a device associated with the user) of a communication platform may request to transfer a plurality of subscriptions from a first account to a second account. ... Yahoo Inc
Tip generation
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Top-k query processing with conditional skips
Methods and apparatus for performing top-k query processing include pruning a list of documents to identify a subset of the list of documents, where pruning includes, for other query terms in the set of query terms, skipping a document in the list of documents based, at least in part, on the contribution of the query term to the score of the corresponding document and the term upper bound for each other query term, in the set of query terms, that matches the document.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a classification unit, a conversion unit, a label acquiring unit. The classification unit that classifies a feature vector by using a classification vector, the feature vector being converted from target data. ... Yahoo Inc
Virtual-reality providing system, virtual-reality providing method, virtual-reality-provision supporting apparatus, virtual-reality providing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A virtual-reality providing system disclosed herein includes a terminal apparatus and a server apparatus. The terminal apparatus generates a first content based on an instruction that is based on a user operation, the first content being obtained by rendering one or more objects belonging to a first category among a plurality of objects. ... Yahoo Inc
Asts-less block redundant electrical topology with variable ups walk-ins
Systems and method for the distribution of data center power are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a reserve power system comprising a switchboard, reserve ups, and generator; and a primary power system, the primary power system comprising a primary ups coupled to a primary power source via a primary input, a critical load via a primary output, and the reserve power system via an automatic bypass input. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for committing transactions in a semi-distributed manner
The present teaching relates to committing transactions over a database in a semi-distributed manner. In one example, a transaction is executed to access a plurality of keys stored in the database. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically determining malicious ip clusters using network activity data
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Automatic electronic message content rating method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Presenting suggestions for user input based on client device characteristics
A computer implemented method includes: receiving an incomplete input from a user; presenting a plurality of suggestions to the user for completion of the input, wherein the suggestions are presented in a ranked order based on a characteristic associated with the user terminal; receiving a selection by the user of a suggestion from the suggestions; and completing the input with the suggestion.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Online ranking of queries for sponsored search
A system and method for ranking query-advertisement combinations is disclosed. Embodiments use an online component to enhance and rank query ad combinations. ... Yahoo Inc
Virtualization input component
One or more systems and/or methods for storing personal information within a first device and/or for providing personal information from the first device to the second device are provided. The first device (e.g., a smartphone) may identify a user interface (e.g., a movie streaming website) populated with user specified data (e.g., a password). ... Yahoo Inc
User profile expansion for personalization and recommendation
Software for a website hosting a content-aggregation service generates a first representation of interests for a user. The first representation includes a plurality of entities including pivot entities and extended entities, where the extended entities result from a nearest-neighbor search of word embeddings. ... Yahoo Inc
Selling item transaction processing device, selling item transaction processing method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A selling item transaction processing device disclosed herein includes a setting reception unit, a transaction price changing unit, a purchase reception unit, and a processing unit. The setting reception unit receives setting of a transaction price of a selling item. ... Yahoo Inc
Generation apparatus, generation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment a generation apparatus includes a selection unit that selects a model to be used for generating a response based on one of conditions input from a user among from a plurality of models for generating responses to inquiries, the models being for generating the responses corresponding to the conditions that are different from one another. The generation apparatus includes a generation unit that generates the response to an inquiry from the user by using the model selected by the selection unit.. ... Yahoo Inc
Inference device, inference method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An inference device disclosed herein includes an identifying unit, and an inferring unit. The identifying unit identifies a set of a predetermined phenomenon, an effect having a causal relation with the predetermined phenomenon, and a polarity of the effect, from concept information in which a phenomenon, an effect having a causal relation with the phenomenon, a polarity to be an indicator of advantages and disadvantages caused by the effect to a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Estimation device, estimation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment an estimation device includes a collecting unit that collects pieces of operation information that indicate operational statuses of electric devices, provided in a predetermined facility, and terminal information that is acquired by a terminal device of a user in the predetermined facility. The estimation device includes an estimating unit that estimates an action of a user in the predetermined facility based on the pieces of operation information and the terminal information.. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for providing query suggestions based on personalized spelling correction
The present teaching relates to providing a query suggestion. In one example, a request is received for query suggestions with respect to a query prefix input by a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for next word prediction
A method implemented on a computing device having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for predicting a next word comprises generating a suggestion database including a plurality of suggestions; receiving an input from a user including a first word and at least one character of a second word; obtaining one or more indices associated with the at least one character from the suggestion database; retrieving one or more suggestions corresponding to the one or more indices from the suggestion database; and presenting the one or more suggestions to the user.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Baseline interest profile for recommendations using a geographic location
Software for a content-aggregation website generates a first representation of interests for a geographical location. The representation includes a plurality of entities that are derived from a corpus of documents. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for facilitating a guided dialog between a user and a conversational agent
The present teaching relates to facilitating a guided dialog with a user. In one example, an input utterance is obtained from the user. ... Yahoo Inc
Headset visual displacement for motion correction
Many headset devices, such as virtual reality helmets, present visuals that respond to the user's motion, such that a rotation of the user's head causes the visual to be re-rendered from a correspondingly rotated perspective. The lag between the user's motion and the updated rendering from the new perspective may be perceivable even at high framerates, and may induce unpleasant feelings such as vertigo. ... Yahoo Inc
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable storage medium
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a conversion unit, au update unit, a generation unit, and a first learning unit. The conversion unit converts input target data into a feature vector. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically generating high-quality digital content thumbnails from digital video
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Building profiles for clusters with smart union of individual profiles
A system for generating a cluster profile is provided. The system may include a server and a database. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for providing query suggestions
Methods, systems and programing for providing query suggestions. In one example, a search query is received from a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Estimation device, estimation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An estimation device disclosed herein includes a detection unit, an acquisition unit, and an estimation unit. The detection unit detects acceleration in a moving object. ... Yahoo Inc
Automated connection of electronic messaging and social networking services method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between electronic mail services and other services, such as social networking service 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for multi-label prediction
A method implemented on a computing device having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for multi-label prediction comprises generating a label space; receiving a data point from a user; generating a first feature vector from the data point; projecting the first feature vector to the label space; determining a first set of labels associated with the first feature vector from the label space; converting the first set of labels to a second set of labels; and providing the second set of labels to the user.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Hybrid classifier for assigning natural language processing (nlp) inputs to domains in real-time
Systems and methods for domain classification in natural language processing based on domains are disclosed. The method includes generating a trigram corpus for the purpose of classification based on a trigram analysis of a domain model containing a hierarchical ontology and semantic construction that maps patterns of semantic tokens to syntactic patterns. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically extracting gifs from videos
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Media enrichment system and method
Disclosed herein are aspects associated with contextual, or related, media enrichment presentation item of a media object served via the internet. A request to annotate a media object in connection with the media object's presentation is received, and a media object identifier and a profile identifier are obtained. ... Yahoo Inc
Presenting entity profile information to a user of a computing device
Entity profile information is presented to a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a communication associated with a first entity; in response to receiving the communication, creating or updating, by at least one processor, a first entity profile, wherein the first entity profile is for display to the user on the computing device; and storing a plurality of entity profiles for entities, the entity profiles including the first entity profile.. ... Yahoo Inc
Quality of location-related content
Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for improving quality of location-related content, such as truncated location-related content, for example, while preserving and/or maintaining user privacy.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Hybrid grammatical and ungrammatical parsing
A system and method for processing a natural language input. The natural language input is initially processed through a strict parser, which results in an initial parse. ... Yahoo Inc
Integrating rich media into a web-based display interface
Techniques are provided for integrating rich media into a scalable, multi-user, web-based calendar system having multiple interconnected web-based interfaces. Rich media refers to digital media that exhibit either, or a combination, of dynamic or interactive properties, including video content, audio content, graphical content, hyperlinks, or browser-based applications to such content, that are associated with a particular calendar event. ... Yahoo Inc
Detecting abusive language using character n-gram features
Methods and apparatus for detecting abusive language are disclosed. In one embodiment, a set of character n-grams is ascertained for a set of text. ... Yahoo Inc
Emotional reaction sharing
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for emotional reaction sharing are provided. For example, a client device captures video of a user viewing content, such as a live stream video. ... Yahoo Inc
Encryption device, encryption method, encryption data, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment an encryption device includes an acquisition unit that acquire information that is to be an encryption object. The encryption device includes an encryption unit that apply a plurality of functions to the acquired information in order of having a quasi-periodic structure to encrypt the information.. ... Yahoo Inc
Device identification for multiple device ids
An electronic system may be configured to determine if a first-type device id and a second-type device id both identify a same device. To do so, the electronic system may preliminarily group a particular first-type id with a particular second-type id based on matching time slots and network addresses. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for concurrent database operation
The present teaching relates to concurrent database operation. In one example, a plurality of requests which includes a scan request to obtain first data associated with a plurality of first keys stored in a database is received concurrently. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatic highlight detection from live streaming media and rendering within a specialized media player
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
User subscription to content
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating user subscription to content from a content provider are provided. For example, a message interface provides access to messages associated with a user message address of a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Data classification device, data classification method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A data classification device according to the present application includes a conversion unit, a classification unit, a first learning unit, and a second learning unit. The conversion unit converts input classification target data into a feature vector. ... Yahoo Inc
Selective content insertion into areas of media objects
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selective content insertion into areas of media objects are provided. For example, a media object (e.g., an image or video), is selected for composition with content, such as where a message, interactive content, a hyperlink, or other types of content is overlaid or embedded into the media object to create a composite media object. ... Yahoo Inc
Information analysis apparatus, information analysis method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An information analysis apparatus includes: a weight assigning unit that assigns a weight to each of a plurality of items based on an action taken by a user who has viewed a sales content on which the plurality of items to be recommended are posted; a selection unit that selects a plurality of pairs in which two items are selected among the plurality of items placed in the sales content and associated with each other; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a characteristic based on characteristic information indicating a property of each of the two items selected as a pair by the selection unit and the weight assigned by the weight assigning unit to the two items.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Advertisement delivery apparatus, advertisement delivery method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An advertisement delivery apparatus according to the present application includes a receiving unit, a classifying unit, and a determining unit. The receiving unit receives a delivery request for a plurality of advertisements to be delivered to a terminal device. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for ranking content items based on user engagement signals
The present teaching relates to method, system, and programs for training a ranking model for ranking content items. In one example, a set of content items is obtained. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized systems and methods for authenticating users on a network device via dynamically allocated authenticating state machines hosted on a computer network
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in an authentication system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. ... Yahoo Inc
Automatic social media content timeline summarization method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in social media content generation and delivery 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Automatic canonical digital image selection method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for automatic selection of canonical digital images from a large corpus of digital images, such as the corpus of digital images available on the web, for an entity, such as and without limitation a person, a point of interest, object, etc. The automated, unsupervised approach for selecting a diverse set of high quality, canonical digital images, is well suited for processing a large corpus of digital images. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for querying streaming data
The present teaching relates to streaming data querying and providing query results. In one example, a query is received for events happening after receipt of the query. ... Yahoo Inc
Visual recognition using social links
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. ... Yahoo Inc
Fact machine for user generated content
A fact machine receives a comment string from a webpage and segments the comments into sub-conversations. The fact machine also identifies entities within comments or draft comments as well as a sentiment and/or attributes associated with the entity. ... Yahoo Inc
Automatic fantasy sports data analysis method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Mobile ghosting
In one embodiment, a first set of applications installed on a first device is identified. Device characteristics of a second device may be ascertained. ... Yahoo Inc
Systems and methods to provide server side profile information
Systems and methods to provide server side profile information. An ldap server is provisioned for each user of a plurality of users. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for modifying a media file by automatically applying security features to select portions of media file content
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, generating, securing and/or hosting 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 security and quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. ... Yahoo Inc
Generic card feature extraction based on card rendering as an image
Methods and apparatus for using features of images representing content items to improve the presentation of the content items are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of digital images are obtained, where each of the images represents a corresponding one of a plurality of content items. ... Yahoo Inc
Method to enrich the browser cookies' attributes by graph propagation
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for generating mapping data structures based on predicted relationships across tracking data obtained from tracking online browsing histories of users to a network of websites.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Image processing device, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
An image processing device according to the present application includes an accepting unit and a specifying unit. The accepting unit accepts image data that includes therein at least two diagrams that can be extracted as circles. ... Yahoo Inc
Determination device, determination method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A determination device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires user information as information about a user. ... Yahoo Inc
Keyword recommendation
An example system can include a server that includes or is associated with a keyword recommendation module. The keyword recommendation module can be configured to select keywords for a search engine for use in a search engine marketing campaign, wherein the search engine provides more traffic to internet content of a publisher than other search engines, for the keywords. ... Yahoo Inc
Determination device, determination method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A determination device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires user information that is information regarding a user who uses a terminal device that becomes a providing destination of content. ... Yahoo Inc
Traveler recommendations
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing recommendations to travelers are provided. For example, locational data associated with a device of a user is evaluated to identify a set of location points at which the device was located over time. ... Yahoo Inc
System and method for video conversations
This disclosure describes methods and systems for viewing a collection of media objects, such as a video clip and associated responses (video, audio and text), in a seamless way. Provided with a media object and a series of responses and counter responses, a real time media combining methodology is coupled with a text and audio conversion process to generate a media stream, or downloadable media object, that contains the original media object and some or all of the associated responses. ... Yahoo Inc
Ranking answers for on-line community questions
Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for in part, to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for ranking answers for on-line community questions.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Generating apparatus, generating method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application includes an obtaining unit and a generating unit. The obtaining unit obtains intermediate images in an intermediate layer of a neural network that recognizes the quantity of objects contained in an image. ... Yahoo Inc
Search across multiple user interfaces
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for searching across multiple user interfaces are provided. For example, a search query may be received from a user of a computing environment. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for optimizing the display of electronic content card information when providing users digital content
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Real time parsing and suggestions from pre-generated corpus with hypernyms
Systems and methods of natural language processing in an environment with no existing corpus are disclosed. The method includes defining an input grammar specific to a chosen domain, the input grammar having a domain specific knowledge and general grammatical knowledge. ... Yahoo Inc
Storage device, file writing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A storage device according to the present application includes a receiving unit and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a write request for writing a file with a specified directory name. ... Yahoo Inc
Registering apparatus, terminal apparatus, registering method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A registering apparatus disclosed herein includes a receiving unit and a registering unit. The receiving unit receives a registration request that is transmitted from a first terminal apparatus of which reliability has been verified on the basis of a predetermined rule and that is a request including certification indicating that a second terminal apparatus is trusted by the first terminal apparatus on the basis of a rule held in the first terminal apparatus. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically creating and communicating media streams of digital content
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Virtual chat rooms
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for hosting virtual chat rooms of a chat room are provided. For example, users (e.g., 3,000 users) may access video interfaces, hosting a video, and chat room interfaces associated with a chat room for the video (e.g., users may access a news website providing a live stream of a current event along with a chat room for discussing the live stream). ... Yahoo Inc
Information distribution apparatus for switching structure of data for digital screen display, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment an information distribution apparatus includes an acquisition unit that, acquires a predetermined score stored in a storage device for a user corresponding to the client information terminal device; a selection unit that selects a data item to be incorporated as a. Component into the data for digital screen display to be distributed to the client information terminal device in accordance with the score acauired by the acquisition unit; and a distribution unit that, after incorporating a component corresponding to the data selected by the selection unit into the data for digital screen display, distributes the resultant data for digital screen display to the client information terminal device that is a transmission source of the distribution request.. ... Yahoo Inc
Method and system for presenting personalized products based on digital signage for electronic commerce
Method and system for electronic commerce are provided. An image of a user is obtained. ... Yahoo Inc
Locally hosting a social network using social data stored on a user's computer
Systems and methods to host a social network locally on a user's computing device using social data at the user device. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining, on a local computing device of a user, social data regarding social relationships of the user in order to support a social network of the user; and hosting, via the local computing device, the social network.. ... Yahoo Inc
Overall performance when a subsystem becomes overloaded
Methods and apparatus for improving performance of a system including a first computing system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the first computing system receives a request via a network from a client device. ... Yahoo Inc
Automatic video segment selection method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
Methods and systems for near real-time lookalike audience expansion in ads targeting
A signature matrix is used to test each online event for inclusion of a user in a pre-generated lookalike audience. Locality sensitive hashing is used to compile the signature matrix to dramatically reduce memory storage requirements and processing time for each received online event. ... Yahoo Inc
System and method for relevance-based electronic message presentation
Relevant messages, or “hero results”, which are not ranked at the uppermost part of a time-based listing of search results are identified and such hero results can be displayed apart from the time-based listing of search results. A user can be provided with messages in a time-based presentation as well as messages in a relevance-based presentation. ... Yahoo Inc
Display of communication system usage statistics
Among other disclosures, a method may include collecting historical communication data, personal data and usage statistics relating to a portion of a plurality of communications, a sender of one or more of the communications or one or more recipients of the communications. The method may include depositing the collected data into a repository. ... Yahoo Inc
Automatically creating at-a-glance content
Generating notifications comprising text and image data for client devices with limited display screens is disclosed. An image to be included in the notification is resized and reshaped using image processing techniques. ... Yahoo Inc
Content sharing recommendations
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing content sharing recommendations are provided. For example, signals, associated with a user (e.g., a location of the user, an event occurring near the user, an activity being performed by the user, content of a message recently received by the user or being composed by the user, etc.), are evaluated to identify a context associated with the user (e.g., the user may be composing a social network post about a basketball game that the user is attending). ... Yahoo Inc
Video monitoring
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for monitoring a video are provided. For example, the video may be rendered within a canvas overlaying a webpage within a web browser. ... Yahoo Inc
Learning device, learning method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning device includes a generating unit that generates a new second learner by using a part of a first learner in which deep learning has been performed on the relationship held by a combination of first content and second content that has a type different from that of the first content. The learning device includes a learning unit that allows the second learner generated by the generating unit to perform deep learning on the relationship held by a combination of the first content and third content that has a type different from that of the second content.. ... Yahoo Inc
Customized content stream utilizing dwelltime-based machine learning
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selecting content items for presentation to a user device of a user. One method includes an operation for measuring dwelltimes for a plurality of content items, where the dwelltime for a content item is based on the amount of time that the content item is displayed to a viewer. ... Yahoo Inc
Content subject suggestions
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for auto-generating subject suggestions are provided. For example, a set of n-grams are generated from text within an email body of an email being composed by a user and/or from descriptive information of attachments to the email. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for automatically detecting and rendering highlights from streaming videos
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, 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. ... Yahoo Inc
System and method for tagging content and delivering the tag to buddies of a given user
A method comprises retrieving a profile of a given user, the given user having a given-user device; delivering a content item to the given-user device; receiving one or more user-specified tags associated with the content item; identifying one or more buddies of the user as indicated in the profile; and delivering the one or more tags to the one or more buddies.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Systems and methods to present voice message information to a user of a computing device
Systems and methods to process and/or present information relating to voice messages for a user that are received from other persons. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a data processing system includes: receiving first data associated with prior communications or activities for a first user on a mobile device; receiving a voice message for the first user; transcribing the voice message using the first data to provide a transcribed message; and sending the transcribed message to the mobile device for display to the user.. ... Yahoo Inc
Dynamic content mapping
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to dynamic display of representations of digital content for user interaction on computing devices, for example.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Video content deep diving
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for displaying content associated with a video element of a video are provided. For example, a video may comprise video elements (e.g., pixels of frames of the video depicting an entity such as a car, an actor, a monument, etc.) that are tagged with content tags (e.g., a textual string such as a search query used to obtain content from content providers). ... Yahoo Inc
Target webpage performance
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a recommendation for increasing loading time performance of a target webpage are provided. For example, a third party window, specifying a target webpage as a source, is inserted into a webpage. ... Yahoo Inc
Terminal device, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and insurance condition determination device
A terminal device that includes a first execution unit that executes a first application having a navigation function for a user in a vehicle, and a second execution unit that executes a second application having a transmission function and a reception function of a message, and the second execution unit automatically replies to the message in cooperation with the first application in a case where the second execution unit receives the message to the second application while the vehicle is being driven.. . ... Yahoo Inc
Decision device for switching digital data packet stream, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A decision device for switching a digital data packet stream according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a decision unit. An acquiring unit acquires, as feature information associated with a first digital data packet stream that is transmitted via an information and telecommunications network, the length of playback time in a case where the digital data packet stream is played back by rendering at a standard playback rate. ... Yahoo Inc
System and method of content selection using selection activity in digital messaging
Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. ... Yahoo Inc
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An image processing apparatus according to the present application includes a reception unit and a specification unit. The reception unit receives image data produced through image capturing by a predetermined image capturing apparatus and including an elliptical figure. ... Yahoo Inc
Control apparatus for man-machine interaction using receptor and effector, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A control apparatus for a man-machine interaction according to the present application includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit acquires detection information detected using a sensor as a receptor by an artifact including an interface configured to perform a man-machine conversational interaction with a user, using the sensor and an effector as an output apparatus, the detection information indicating a status of the interaction. ... Yahoo Inc
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, when a user performs one of specific behaviors respectively having a plurality of types, information on a behavior of the user performed on a terminal device and information on context associated with the user. ... Yahoo Inc
Computerized system and method for high-quality and high-ranking digital content discovery
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. ... Yahoo Inc
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