Yahoo Assets LLC

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC

Verizon Media Inc.

Oath Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Yahoo Holdings, Inc.

Ariel Raviv

Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev

Joel Oren

Ran Wolff

David Carmel

Yoelle Smadja Maarek

Liane Lewin-Eytan

Peter Monaco

Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli

Dan S Pelleg

Alexander Libov

Gal Lalouche

Yair Koren

Eliran Abutbul

Haggai Roitman

Ashok Kumar

Shai Erera

Zohar Karnin

Avihai Mejer

Gilad Barkai

Umang Patel

Guy Halawi

Rotem Stram

Prateeksha Uday Chandraghatgi

Sofia Tolmach

Kenneth Sebastian

Ariel Livshits

Omer Duvdevany

Michael Viderman

Ian Michael McCarthy

Chris Gonsalves

Ping-Hsiu Ben Tsai

Ariella Voloshin

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a first budget is determined for a first instance of a first time period. A pacing system, that is configured to pace spending over a time period based upon a budget, is controlled to spend on transmission of content to a first plurality of client devices using the first budget during the first instance of the first time period. Feedback indicating a rate of spending associated with the transmission of content to the first plurality of client devices is received. Using the feedback, the first budget is updated to determine a second budget for a second instance of the first time period. The pacing system is controlled to spend on transmission of content to a second plurality of client devices using the second budget during the second instance of the first time period.

System and method for dynamic budget control

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a universally applied framework for analyzing all forms and types of messages being communicated over network, and providing functionality to an inbox for alerting a user to specific forms or types of content included within received and displayed messages. Such functionality can include determining and displaying specific message content in a modified manner when its associated message is displayed from a message inbox. The messages can be modified upon display within in the inbox to indicate and identify that the message includes content of a specific type or form.

Computerized system and method for display of modified machine-generated messages

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in electronic messaging and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for generating electronic message filters and for using electronic message filters comprising item category filtering criteria and having an automatically-determined expiration. The discloses systems and methods filter electronic messages using the item category filtering criteria while an electronic message filter remains active as determined using the automatically-determined expiration information.

Automatic electronic message filtering method and apparatus

The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for product recommendation. When communication content is received from a service provider operating on a platform, information related to a product is identified from a webpage accessed based on a link included in the communication content. Based on the information related to the product, a recommendation of the product is generated and sent to some service providers on different platforms for distribution of the recommendation to intended targets.

System and method for automated recommendation generation from communication content and application thereof

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating dynamic content item recommendations are provided. Content item information, extracted from message data, is aggregated to calculate popularity and attributes of content items. The content items are ranked based upon the popularity and attributes to generate a ranked list of content items. Exploration traffic is served utilizing a set of eligible content items selected from the ranked list of content items. An eligible content item is promoted for participation in auctions for serving non-exploration traffic based upon the eligible content item being served a threshold number of times.

Generating dynamic content item recommendations

Disclosed are systems and methods for generating recommendations to users based on historical travel information and electronic communication data. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for automating the transmission of electronic travel-related recommendations to users by consistently monitoring electronic messages received at an electronic communication mailbox corresponding to a user. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging historical user data, data parsed from electronic communication mailbox corresponding to a user, or various vendor information, and using the aforementioned data as inputs for travel-related recommendation models, in order to generate and transmit the optimal travel-related recommendations to a user.

Systems and methods for generating travel-related recommendations using electronic communication data

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating and providing recommendations of products are provided. For example, content is extracted from a message sent to a user. The content is evaluated to identify a product identifier corresponding to a product title of a product. If the product identifier is a truncated version of the product title, then a database of product titles and frequencies of occurrence of the product titles is used to complete the product title. A model is used to infer a product category for the product title. Matching scores are assigned to products within a product category based upon weighted attributes. A recommendation is provided to the user for a product having a matching score greater than a matching threshold.

Systems and methods for recommendation generation

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for analyzing messages associated with an inbox of a user, and providing functionality to the inbox for alerting the user to specific forms of content included within each message. Such functionality can include displaying messages and/or the content contained therein in a novel, dedicated and modified and/or embedded portion of a message inbox. The messages can also be modified upon display within in the inbox to indicate that the message includes content of a specific type. Also, messages that include specific content types can also trigger the disclosed framework to generate and provide alerts to the user indicating the inbox has received or includes specific forms of such content.

Computerized system and method for a mail integrated content delivery and alert system

Disclosed are systems and methods for generating voice renderings of machine-generated electronic messages. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for organizing often fragmented machine-generated electronic messages and providing mechanisms for a virtual assistant to produce voice-renderings data extracted from electronic messages. The disclosed system may implement steps for receiving user queries via virtual assistants, extracting data from machine-generated electronic messages, converting the extracted data to purposeful organizational schemas, and generating human perceivable voice renderings based on the user queries and extracted data.

Systems and methods for voice rendering of machine-generated electronic messages

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for mailbox-based coupon display are provided. For example, a plurality of email messages stored in a mailbox of a first email account of a first user may be identified, and may be evaluated to identify a plurality of coupons. The plurality of coupons may be analyzed to determine one or more coupon features. User data and/or activity data associated with the first user may be analyzed to determine one or more user features. A predictive model may be tuned based upon the one or more coupon features and/or the one or more user features. A set of scores may be generated for the plurality of coupons based upon the predictive model. A graphical user interface may be controlled based upon the set of scores to display one or more coupons.

Method and system for mailbox-based coupon display

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that provides an optimized ranking methodology for query suggestion and auto-completion tasks that messaging systems can implement and embed into their functionality. The disclosed framework can leverage the mail query logs on a personal level or on the aggregate (e.g., across all or a set of users on a network), and the mailbox content of each user to produce a comprehensive ranking function that generates ranked search suggestions for a mail search query for both person and company entities.

Computerized system and method for email search assist optimization

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. One or more videos associated with a user may be analyzed to determine a first set of features of the user associated with a first emotion of the user and/or a second set of features of the user associated with a second emotion of the user. A first user emotion profile associated with the user may be generated based upon the first set of features and/or the second set of features. A second video may be presented via a graphical user interface of a first client device. The user may be identified within the second video. It may be determined, based upon the second video and/or the first user emotion profile, that the user is associated with the first emotion. A representation of the first emotion may be displayed via the graphical user interface of the first client device.

Determining and presenting user emotion

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Ariel Raviv