Assignee profile:

Yahoo! Inc.

City:

Sunnyvale, California

Country:

United States

Published Applications:

3,872

Last publication date:

2017-09-14

Patent Grants:

2,630

Last grant date:

2020-06-02

Yahoo! Inc. is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, it was one of the first internet companies and is now a global brand. Yahoo! provides a range of services including search, email, news, finance, sports, and entertainment. It also offers online advertising services and has partnerships with other companies such as Microsoft and Verizon. Yahoo! is one of the most visited websites in the world and is a major player in the technology industry.

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Recent patent applications by Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Inc. based in Sunnyvale, US has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2017-09-14 ✅ Patent 10,672,025 granted on 2020-06-02
US20170262878A1
Physics

System and method for traffic quality based pricing via deep neural language models

#2 | 2017-08-31 ✅ Patent 10,489,712 granted on 2019-11-26
US20170249311A1
Physics

Quality-based scoring and inhibiting of user-generated content

#3 | 2017-08-10 ✅ Patent 10,042,924 granted on 2018-08-07
US20170228457A1
Physics

Scalable and effective document summarization framework

#4 | 2017-08-03 ✅ Patent 11,321,299 granted on 2022-05-03
US20170220617A1
Physics

Scalable conflict detection in transaction management

#5 | 2017-07-25 ✅ Patent 9,715,546 granted on 2017-07-25
US15047003
Physics

Method and system for searching encrypted data

#6 | 2017-07-06 ✅ Patent 11,113,714 granted on 2021-09-07
US20170193545A1
Physics

Filtering machine for sponsored content

#7 | 2017-07-06 ✅ Patent 10,417,289 granted on 2019-09-17
US20170193107A1
Physics

Systems and methods involving integration/creation of search results media modules

#8 | 2017-06-29 ✅ Patent 11,973,841 granted on 2024-04-30
US20170185901A1
Physics

System and method for user model based on app behavior

#9 | 2017-06-01 ✅ Patent 10,755,303 granted on 2020-08-25
US20170154356A1
Physics

Generating actionable suggestions for improving user engagement with online advertisements

#10 | 2017-06-01 ✅ Patent 9,659,214 granted on 2017-05-23
US20170154216A1
Physics

Locally optimized feature space encoding of digital data and retrieval using such encoding

#11 | 2017-05-18 ✅ Patent 9,760,907 granted on 2017-09-12
US20170140424A9
Physics

GRANULAR DATA FOR BEHAVIORAL TARGETING

#12 | 2017-04-06 ✅ Patent 10,559,004 granted on 2020-02-11
US20170098240A1
Physics

Systems and methods for establishing and utilizing a hierarchical Bayesian framework for ad click through rate prediction

#13 | 2017-04-06
US20170098236A1
Physics

EXPLORATION OF REAL-TIME ADVERTISING DECISIONS

#14 | 2017-04-06 ✅ Patent 9,704,045 granted on 2017-07-11
US20170098124A1
Physics

User classification based upon images

#15 | 2017-03-16 ✅ Patent 10,069,623 granted on 2018-09-04
US20170078090A1
Electricity

Method and system for exchanging cryptographic keys with an unauthenticated device

#16 | 2017-03-16
US20170076327A1
Physics

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR COMPARISON

#17 | 2017-03-09 ✅ Patent 10,296,158 granted on 2019-05-21
US20170068361A1
Physics

Systems and methods involving features of creation/viewing/utilization of information modules such as mixed-media modules

#18 | 2017-03-09 ✅ Patent 11,099,714 granted on 2021-08-24
US20170068310A1
Physics

Systems and methods involving creation/display/utilization of information modules, such as mixed-media and multimedia modules

#19 | 2017-03-02 ✅ Patent 9,602,956 granted on 2017-03-21
US20170064490A1
Electricity

System and method for device positioning with bluetooth low energy distributions

#20 | 2017-03-02 ✅ Patent 10,504,555 granted on 2019-12-10
US20170064277A1
Electricity

Systems and methods involving features of creation/viewing/utilization of information modules such as mixed-media modules

#21 | 2017-03-02 ✅ Patent 9,600,919 granted on 2017-03-21
US20170060857A1
Physics

Systems and methods for assembling and/or displaying multimedia objects, modules or presentations

#22 | 2017-02-23 ✅ Patent 10,387,503 granted on 2019-08-20
US20170053029A1
Physics

Systems and methods involving features of search and/or search integration

#23 | 2017-02-16 ✅ Patent 9,569,696 granted on 2017-02-14
US20170046598A1
Physics

Media content analysis system and method

#24 | 2017-02-09 ✅ Patent 9,672,445 granted on 2017-06-06
US20170039452A1
Physics

Computerized method and system for automated determination of high quality digital content

#25 | 2017-02-02 ✅ Patent 9,654,839 granted on 2017-05-16
US20170034590A1
Electricity

Cross-platform interface for a television device

#26 | 2017-02-02 ✅ Patent 10,922,722 granted on 2021-02-16
US20170032424A1
Physics

System and method for contextual video advertisement serving in guaranteed display advertising

#27 | 2017-01-26
US20170027086A1
Electricity

INTEGRATED BUILDING BASED AIR HANDLER FOR SERVER FARM COOLING SYSTEM

#28 | 2017-01-26 ✅ Patent 9,665,596 granted on 2017-05-30
US20170024414A1
Physics

Data access based on content of image recorded by a mobile device

#29 | 2017-01-19
US20170018009A1
Physics

Bidding Systems and Methods For Minimizing The Cost Of Field Experiments Using Advertisement Exchanges

#30 | 2017-01-19 ✅ Patent 10,445,775 granted on 2019-10-15
US20170017996A1
Physics

Social aggregation communications

#31 | 2017-01-05
US20170004524A1
Physics

Systems and Methods For Mobile Campaign Optimization Without Knowing User Identity

#32 | 2016-12-22 ✅ Patent 11,494,666 granted on 2022-11-08
US20160371589A1
Physics

Systems and methods for online content recommendation

#33 | 2016-12-13 ✅ Patent 9,519,682 granted on 2016-12-13
US13117037
Physics

User trustworthiness

#34 | 2016-11-24 ✅ Patent 10,558,706 granted on 2020-02-11
US20160342705A1
Physics

Method and system for determining user interests based on a correspondence graph

#35 | 2016-11-15 ✅ Patent 9,496,893 granted on 2016-11-15
US14926541
Electricity

Content compression and/or decompression

#36 | 2016-11-03 ✅ Patent 9,864,999 granted on 2018-01-09
US20160323239A1
Electricity

Method for identifying multiple devices belonging to the same group

#37 | 2016-11-03 ✅ Patent 10,657,196 granted on 2020-05-19
US20160321281A1
Physics

System and method for measuring the virality of internet content using indices

#38 | 2016-11-03 ✅ Patent 9,594,438 granted on 2017-03-14
US20160320864A1
Physics

Systems and methods relating to design of mobile applications for display ads on a larger screen space

#39 | 2016-09-29 ✅ Patent 9,591,362 granted on 2017-03-07
US20160286271A1
Electricity

System and method for enhancing recorded radio or television programs with information on the world wide web

#40 | 2016-09-22 ✅ Patent 10,346,433 granted on 2019-07-09
US20160275165A1
Physics

Techniques for modeling aggregation records

#41 | 2016-09-15 ✅ Patent 9,626,686 granted on 2017-04-18
US20160267502A1
Physics

Selecting sporting events based on event status

#42 | 2016-09-13 ✅ Patent 9,442,881 granted on 2016-09-13
US13222720
Physics

Anti-spam transient entity classification

#43 | 2016-09-08
US20160260125A1
Physics

Systems and Methods for Cold-start and Continuous-learning via Evolutionary Explorations

#44 | 2016-09-01 ✅ Patent 10,055,753 granted on 2018-08-21
US20160253694A1
Physics

Systems and methods for instant generation of human understandable audience insights

#45 | 2016-08-25 ✅ Patent 9,930,425 granted on 2018-03-27
US20160249111A1
Electricity

Iconized video advertisement wall

#46 | 2016-08-25
US20160249084A1
Electricity

MANAGING AD CAMPAIGNS VIA MOBILE DEVICES

#47 | 2016-08-18 ✅ Patent 9,558,367 granted on 2017-01-31
US20160239680A1
Physics

Virtualization input component

#48 | 2016-08-04 ✅ Patent 9,697,442 granted on 2017-07-04
US20160224868A1
Physics

Object detection in digital images

#49 | 2016-07-21 ✅ Patent 9,645,710 granted on 2017-05-09
US20160210003A1
Physics

Method and apparatus for facilitating message selection and organization

#50 | 2016-07-14 ✅ Patent 9,971,740 granted on 2018-05-15
US20160203106A1
Physics

Dynamic webpage image

#51 | 2016-06-30 ✅ Patent 9,426,626 granted on 2016-08-23
US20160192150A1
Electricity

Location uncertainty in search

#52 | 2016-06-30 ✅ Patent 9,734,519 granted on 2017-08-15
US20160189248A1
Physics

Native advertisement smart injection

#53 | 2016-06-30
US20160189217A1
Physics

TARGETING USING HISTORICAL DATA

#54 | 2016-06-30
US20160189204A1
Physics

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING KEYWORD SEARCHABLE AUDIENCE BASED ON PERFORMANCE RANKING

#55 | 2016-06-30
US20160189202A1
Physics

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING COMPLEX ONLINE STRATEGY EFFECTIVENESS

#56 | 2016-06-30
US20160189201A1
Physics

ENHANCED TARGETED ADVERTISING SYSTEM

#57 | 2016-06-23
US20160180376A1
Physics

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AD CAMPAIGN OPTIMIZATION

#58 | 2016-06-23 ✅ Patent 10,068,247 granted on 2018-09-04
US20160180373A1
Physics

Pacing control for online ad campaigns

#59 | 2016-06-23 ✅ Patent 9,607,217 granted on 2017-03-28
US20160180162A1
Physics

Generating preference indices for image content

#60 | 2016-06-23 ✅ Patent 9,465,956 granted on 2016-10-11
US20160180112A1
Physics

System and method for privacy-aware information extraction and validation

#61 | 2016-06-23 ✅ Patent 9,489,420 granted on 2016-11-08
US20160179879A1
Physics

System and method for in-context exploration of search results

#62 | 2016-06-23 ✅ Patent 9,665,663 granted on 2017-05-30
US20160179835A1
Physics

Generating user recommendations

#63 | 2016-06-16 ✅ Patent 9,602,856 granted on 2017-03-21
US20160173927A1
Electricity

AD hoc collaboration network for capturing audio/video data

#64 | 2016-06-14 ✅ Patent 9,367,355 granted on 2016-06-14
US14607499
Physics

Resource utilization by one or more tasks

#65 | 2016-06-09 ✅ Patent 9,686,400 granted on 2017-06-20
US20160165040A1
Electricity

System and method for driving-aware notification

#66 | 2016-06-09 ✅ Patent 10,134,055 granted on 2018-11-20
US20160162946A1
Physics

System for determining local intent in a search query

#67 | 2016-05-26
US20160148282A1
Physics

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS

#68 | 2016-05-26 ✅ Patent 9,720,882 granted on 2017-08-01
US20160147713A1
Physics

Automatically creating at-a-glance content

#69 | 2016-05-26 ✅ Patent 9,329,842 granted on 2016-05-03
US20160147509A1
Physics

Method and system for providing a user interface

#70 | 2016-05-05
US20160125454A1
Physics

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

#71 | 2016-05-05 ✅ Patent 10,354,273 granted on 2019-07-16
US20160125450A1
Physics

Systems and methods for tracking brand reputation and market share

#72 | 2016-05-05
US20160125314A1
Physics

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NATIVE ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION AND FORMATTING

#73 | 2016-05-05 ✅ Patent 9,607,055 granted on 2017-03-28
US20160125051A1
Physics

System and method for dynamically retrieving data specific to a region of a layer

#74 | 2016-05-03 ✅ Patent 9,331,983 granted on 2016-05-03
US10078051
Electricity

Content-based billing

#75 | 2016-04-28 ✅ Patent 10,277,559 granted on 2019-04-30
US20160119294A1
Electricity

Methods and systems for data traffic control and encryption

#76 | 2016-04-28
US20160117727A1
Physics

ADAPTIVE RETARGETING

#77 | 2016-04-21
US20160110755A1
Physics

ONLINE AD CAMPAIGN TUNING WITH PID CONTROLLERS

#78 | 2016-04-21 ✅ Patent 9,417,773 granted on 2016-08-16
US20160110061A1
Physics

Mobile application pre-fetching using a state framework

#79 | 2016-04-14
US20160103758A1
Physics

ONLINE PRODUCT TESTING USING BUCKET TESTS

#80 | 2016-04-14 ✅ Patent 9,684,449 granted on 2017-06-20
US20160103502A1
Physics

Character input using modern remote control

#81 | 2016-04-07 ✅ Patent 10,108,985 granted on 2018-10-23
US20160098764A1
Physics

Mitigation of failures in an online advertising network

#82 | 2016-03-31 ✅ Patent 9,554,030 granted on 2017-01-24
US20160094774A1
Electricity

Mobile device image acquisition using objects of interest recognition

#83 | 2016-03-24 ✅ Patent 9,589,322 granted on 2017-03-07
US20160086310A1
Physics

Identifying regions characterized by labeled measurements

#84 | 2016-03-24 ✅ Patent 9,804,690 granted on 2017-10-31
US20160085318A1
Physics

System for monitoring a video

#85 | 2016-03-10 ✅ Patent 10,026,104 granted on 2018-07-17
US20160071166A1
Physics

Method and system for automatically pausing advertisements based on user attention

#86 | 2016-03-03 ✅ Patent 10,643,250 granted on 2020-05-05
US20160063572A1
Physics

Controlling effectiveness of online video advertisement campaign

#87 | 2016-03-03 ✅ Patent 9,613,033 granted on 2017-04-04
US20160063004A1
Physics

Emotionally relevant content

#88 | 2016-02-25 ✅ Patent 9,407,586 granted on 2016-08-02
US20160057086A1
Electricity

Method and system for cross device notification

#89 | 2016-02-23 ✅ Patent 9,269,025 granted on 2016-02-23
US14609220
Physics

Object detection in images

#90 | 2016-02-23 ✅ Patent 9,268,464 granted on 2016-02-23
US13563637
Physics

Link determination and usage using image recognition

#91 | 2016-02-18
US20160048875A1
Physics

ENTITY BASED SEARCH ADVERTISING WITHIN A MODULAR SEARCH OBJECT FRAMEWORK

#92 | 2016-02-11 ✅ Patent 9,544,771 granted on 2017-01-10
US20160044509A1
Electricity

Services access for mobile devices

#93 | 2016-02-04 ✅ Patent 9,684,908 granted on 2017-06-20
US20160034585A1
Physics

Automatically generated comparison polls

#94 | 2016-02-02 ✅ Patent 9,251,372 granted on 2016-02-02
US14794733
Physics

Secure service for receiving sensitive information through nested iFrames

#95 | 2016-01-28
US20160027048A1
Physics

AUDIENCE RECOMMENDATION

#96 | 2016-01-28 ✅ Patent 10,218,800 granted on 2019-02-26
US20160026918A1
Physics

Systems and methods for providing recommendations and explanations

#97 | 2016-01-21 ✅ Patent 9,363,644 granted on 2016-06-07
US20160021511A1
Electricity

System and method for detection of indoor tracking units

#98 | 2016-01-21 ✅ Patent 9,258,566 granted on 2016-02-09
US20160021373A1
Electricity

System and method of spherical image compression

#99 | 2016-01-21
US20160019583A1
Physics

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMOOTH AND EFFECTIVE BUDGET DELIVERY IN ONLINE ADVERTISING

#100 | 2016-01-14
US20160014060A1
Electricity

NATIVE AD FORMAT FOR INTEREST-BASED CONTENT SUBSCRIPTIONS IN EMAIL

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