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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Benjamin Jackson Culpepper, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pierre Garrigues, San Francisco, CA (US);
Allison Janoch, Berkeley, CA (US);
Huy X. Nguyen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for determining piles comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an image. The processor is configured to determine one or more attributes of the image; to determine whether the image is a member of a top of a hierarchy based at least in part on the attributes. In the event it is determined that the image is a member of the top of the hierarchy: determine a set of elements of the hierarchy the image is a member of, based at least in part on the attributes and determine which of the set of entities are piles.