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Yahoo patent applications published on 02 February 2012

Administrator — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:27:10 +0000

13 US patent applications published on 02 February 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20120030711	METHOD OR SYSTEM TO PREDICT MEDIA CONTENT PREFERENCES
2	20120030629	VISUAL BROWSING SYSTEM AND METHOD
3	20120030588	PROVIDING SOCIAL LIKENESS WITHIN A MESSAGING CONTEXT
4	20120030215	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEVISION SEARCH ASSISTANT
5	20120030186	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING A SEARCH QUERY
6	20120030185	SPONSORED SEARCH RESULTS RE-RANKING BASED ON LINKING ASSOCIATIONS
7	20120030152	RANKING ENTITY FACETS USING USER-CLICK FEEDBACK
8	20120030035	PAY-PER-ACTION SYSTEM FOR SELLING ADVERTISEMENTS
9	20120030021	SELECTING ADVERTISEMENTS USING SAME SESSION QUERIES
10	20120030011	Systems and Methods for Estimating a Conversion Rate for a Digital Advertisement Based on Dwell Times Associated with the Digital Advertisement
11	20120030010	SOCIAL IMPACT ON ADVERTISING
12	20120030007	ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT PROFILES
13	20120030005	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS

Yahoo patents granted on 31 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:39:09 +0000

26 US patents granted on 31 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	8,108,800	Calculating cognitive efficiency score for navigational interfaces based on eye tracking data
2	8,108,795	System and method for the visualization of sports information
3	8,108,778	System and method for context enhanced mapping within a user interface
4	8,108,771	Secure inter-module communication mechanism
5	8,108,770	Secure inter-module communication mechanism
6	8,108,555	System and method for transmission of DNS beacons
7	8,108,515	Enabling rent/buy redirection in invitation to an online service
8	8,108,501	Searching and route mapping based on a social network, location, and time
9	8,108,481	Community caching networks
10	8,108,452	Keyword based audio comparison
11	8,108,416	System and method for updating a search results page in response to a user map interaction
12	8,108,411	Methods and systems for merging data sets
13	8,108,390	System for targeting data to sites referenced on a page
14	8,108,385	User interfaces for search systems using in-line contextual queries
15	8,108,379	System and method for editing history in a search results page
16	8,108,378	Podcast search engine
17	8,108,374	Optimization framework for tuning ranking engine
18	8,108,347	Web server content replication
19	8,108,340	Search engine configured to minimize performance degradation under high load
20	8,108,323	Distributed spam filtering utilizing a plurality of global classifiers and a local classifier
21	8,108,257	Delayed advertisement insertion in videos
22	8,108,254	Methods to attribute conversions for online advertisement campaigns
23	8,108,239	System and method for facilitating trusted recommendations
24	8,107,495	Integrating access to audio messages and instant messaging with VOIP
25	8,107,470	Application interface for global mobile message delivery
26	8,105,159	Player roster selection interface

Yahoo patent applications published on 26 January 2012

Administrator — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:56:01 +0000

4 US patent applications published on 26 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20120023457	PRESENTATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON USER INTERACTIVITY WITH A WEB PAGE
2	20120023114	UNIVERSAL DEVICE IDENTIFIER FOR GLOBALLY IDENTIFYING AND BINDING DISPARATE DEVICE IDENTIFIERS TO THE SAME MOBILE DEVICE
3	20120022937	ADVERTISEMENT BRAND ENGAGEMENT VALUE
4	20120020522	MOBILE IMAGING DEVICE AS NAVIGATOR

Yahoo patents granted on 24 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:27:34 +0000

1 US patent granted on 24 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

8,103,590

Method and system for managing multiple catalogs of files on a network

Yahoo patent applications published on 19 January 2012

Administrator — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:40:30 +0000

5 US patent applications published on 19 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20120016877	CLUSTERING OF SEARCH RESULTS
2	20120016729	TARGETED DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRONIC COUPONS
3	20120016642	CONTEXTUAL-BANDIT APPROACH TO PERSONALIZED NEWS ARTICLE RECOMMENDATION
4	20120015668	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROXIMITY AREA NETWORKING FOR SELECTION OF MESSAGING
5	20120012278	COLD ROW ENCAPSULATION FOR SERVER FARM COOLING SYSTEM

Yahoo patents granted on 17 January 2012

Administrator — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:29:19 +0000

2 US patents granted on 17 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	8,099,463	Method and apparatus for sharing concurrent ad hoc web content between users visiting the same web pages
2	8,098,894	Mobile imaging device as navigator

Yahoo patent applications published on 12 January 2012

Administrator — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:03:53 +0000

7 US patent applications published on 12 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20120011129	FACETED EXPLORATION OF MEDIA COLLECTIONS
2	20120011112	RANKING SPECIALIZATION FOR A SEARCH
3	20120010997	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DERIVING INCOME FROM URL BASED CONTEXT QUERIES
4	20120010942	ONLINE ADVERTISING MARKETPLACE DATA PROVIDER ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATION
5	20120010941	EMAIL BASED SOCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS
6	20120010939	SOCIAL NETWORK BASED ONLINE ADVERTISING
7	20120010928	SOCIAL AGGREGATION TARGETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Yahoo patents granted on 10 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:49:51 +0000

6 US patents granted on 10 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	8,095,560	Edge attribute aggregation in a directed graph
2	8,095,547	Method and apparatus for detecting spam user created content
3	8,095,545	System and methodology for a multi-site search engine
4	8,095,540	Identifying superphrases of text strings
5	8,095,487	System and method for biasing search results based on topic familiarity
6	8,095,419	Search score for the determination of search quality

Yahoo patent applications published on 05 January 2012

Administrator — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:42:26 +0000

11 US patent applications published on 05 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20120005626	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A WEB SEARCH VIA A CLIENT-SIDE MODULE
2	20120005583	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A WEB SEARCH
3	20120005207	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB EXTRACTION
4	20120005204	SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND OPTIMIZING FOR RELEVANCE IN MATCH-MAKING SYSTEMS
5	20120005029	SYSTEM FOR HANDLING MULTIPLE PRIORITIES IN AD EXCHANGE AUCTION
6	20120005021	SELECTING ADVERTISEMENTS USING USER SEARCH HISTORY SEGMENTATION
7	20120005017	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS
8	20120004981	ADVERTISEMENT AND CAMPAIGN EVALUATION WITH BUCKET TESTING IN GUARANTEED DELIVERY OF ONLINE ADVERTISING
9	20120004980	INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND SERVING WITH BUCKET TESTING IN GUARANTEED DELIVERY OF ONLINE ADVERTISING
10	20120004979	INTRASTRUCTURE FOR BUCKET TESTING IN GUARANTEED DELIVERY OF ONLINE ADVERTISING
11	20120004957	FORECASTING SUPPLY FOR ADVERTISEMENTS ACCORDING TO A NON-PARAMETRIC SUPPLY MODEL

Yahoo patents granted on 03 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:41:49 +0000

No US patents granted on 03 January 2012 and assigned to Yahoo

Yahoo patent applications published on 29 December 2011

Administrator — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:12:35 +0000

No US patent applications published on 29 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

Yahoo patents granted on 27 December 2011

Administrator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:20:31 +0000

5 US patents granted on 27 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	8,087,033	Task-based tool for speeding and customizing interactions with web documents
2	8,086,700	Region and duration uniform resource identifiers (URI) for media objects
3	8,086,605	Search engine with augmented relevance ranking by community participation
4	8,086,543	Charity auctions on social networks for optimizing contributions to fundraising campaigns
5	8,086,048	System to compile landmark image search results

Yahoo patent applications published on 22 December 2011

Administrator — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:47:05 +0000

2 US patent applications published on 22 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20110313841	TARGETED DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRONIC COUPONS
2	20110313829	DYNAMIC AUGMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC COUPONS

Yahoo patents granted on 20 December 2011

Administrator — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:53:45 +0000

1 US patent granted on 20 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

8,081,958

User initiated invite for automatic conference participation by invitee

Yahoo patent applications published on 15 December 2011

Administrator — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:32:25 +0000

2 US patent applications published on 15 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20110307579	ACCELERATED AND REPRODUCIBLE DOMAIN VISITOR TARGETING
2	20110306427	Method and System for Drafting One or More Players in a Fantasy Sport

Yahoo patents granted on 13 December 2011

Administrator — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:05:27 +0000

4 US patents granted on 13 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	8,078,645	Operations on multi-level nested data structure
2	8,078,642	Concurrent traversal of multiple binary trees
3	8,078,638	Operations of multi-level nested data structure
4	8,078,149	Advertising information display method, and advertising information display system

Yahoo patent applications published on 08 December 2011

Administrator — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:23:28 +0000

5 US patent applications published on 08 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20110302263	SOCIAL NAMESPACE ADDRESSING FOR NON-UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS
2	20110302148	System and Method for Indexing Food Providers and Use of the Index in Search Engines
3	20110302147	METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTING GRAPH SIMILARITY VIA SEQUENCE SIMILARITY
4	20110302128	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATING NON-UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS USING INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM DISPARATE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
5	20110302034	System and Method for Associating a Geographical Location with an Internet Protocol Addresss

Yahoo patents granted on 06 December 2011

Administrator — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:03:27 +0000

4 US patents granted on 06 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	8,073,953	Mapless global server load balancing of network traffic using anycast routing
2	8,073,877	Scalable semi-structured named entity detection
3	8,073,803	Method for matching electronic advertisements to surrounding context based on their advertisement content
4	8,073,794	Social behavior analysis and inferring social networks for a recommendation system

Yahoo patent applications published on 01 December 2011

Administrator — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:13:12 +0000

4 US patent applications published on 01 December 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	20110295877	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION IN WEB QUERIES
2	20110295776	RESEARCH MISSION IDENTIFICATION
3	20110295682	OPTIMIZED SEARCH RESULT COLUMNS ON SEARCH RESULTS PAGES
4	20110295593	AUTOMATED MESSAGE ATTACHMENT LABELING USING FEATURE SELECTION IN MESSAGE CONTENT

Yahoo patents granted on 29 November 2011

Administrator — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:40:34 +0000

5 US patents granted on 29 November 2011 and assigned to Yahoo

1	8,069,160	System and method for dynamically monetizing keyword values
2	8,069,142	System and method for synchronizing data on a network
3	8,069,128	Real-time ad-hoc spam filtering of email
4	8,069,099	Systems and methods for presenting advertising content based on publisher-selected labels
5	8,069,083	Pay-per-action system for selling advertisements