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Yahoo Inc patents

The following is a sampling of recent Yahoo Inc patent applications (USPTO Patent Application #, Patent Title) sorted by month.

August 2011 - Yahoo Inc patents

20110202267 - Constructing travel itineraries from tagged geo-temporal photographs
20110202513 - System and method for determining an authority rank for real time searching
20110202514 - System and method for presenting geolocated relevance-based content
20110202520 - Navigation assistance for search engines
20110202537 - System and method for using topic messages to understand media relating to an event
20110202821 - Bidded marketplace for applications
20110202881 - System and method for rewarding a user for sharing activity information with a third party
20110193795 - Haptic search feature for touch screens
20110196715 - System and method for financial analysis and brand index in brand valuation
20110196722 - Marketplace for captcha developers
20110196736 - Keyword bid optimization under cost per click constraints
20110196741 - Online and offline integrated profile in advertisement targeting
20110196860 - Method and apparatus for rating user generated content in search results
20110196866 - Small table: multitenancy for lots of small tables on a cloud database
20110197133 - Methods and apparatuses for identifying and monitoring information in electronic documents over a network
20110197268 - Captchas that include overlapped characters, projections on virtual 3d surfaces, and/or virtual 3d objects
20110188770 - Automatic super-resolution transformation for images
20110191168 - Multiple cascading auctions in search advertising
20110191167 - System and method for exploring new sponsored search listings of uncertain quality
20110191170 - Similarity function in online advertising bid optimization
20110191169 - Kalman filter modeling in online advertising bid optimization
20110191171 - Search engine output-associated bidding in online advertising
20110191185 - System and method for targeting users for content delivery
20110191191 - Placeholder bids in online advertising
20110191315 - Method for reducing north ad impact in search advertising
20110191316 - Smart widgets
20110191313 - ranking for informational and unpopular search queries by cumulating click relevance
20110191714 - System and method for backend advertisment conversion
20110191853 - Security techniques for use in malicious advertisement management

July 2011 - Yahoo Inc patents

20110184817 - Sensitivity categorization of web pages

June 2011 - Yahoo Inc patents

20110159890 - Determining mobile content for a social network based on location and time
20110161311 - Search suggestion clustering and presentation
20110153542 - Opinion aggregation system
20110153550 - System and method for determining an event occurrence rate
20110153585 - System and method for providing vector terms related to instant messaging conversations
20110153603 - Time series storage for large-scale monitoring system
20110153833 - Rate provisioner for web services
20110154341 - System and method for a task management library to execute map-reduce applications in a map-reduce framework
20110145225 - Customizable ordering of search results and predictive query generation
20110145248 - System and method to determine the validity of an interaction on a network
20110131093 - System and method for optimizing selection of online advertisements
20110131157 - System and method for predicting context-dependent term importance of search queries
20110131205 - System and method to identify context-dependent term importance of queries for predicting relevant search advertisements
20110131282 - System and method for automatically building up topic-specific messaging identities

May 2011 - Yahoo Inc patents

20110125739 - Algorithmically choosing when to use branded content versus aggregated content

April 2011 - Yahoo Inc patents

20110099059 - Index-based technique friendly ctr prediction and advertisement selection
20110099131 - Pairwise ranking-based classifier
20110099159 - System and methods for web data transformation sourcing
20110099185 - System for querying and consuming web-based data and associated methods
20110099194 - System and methods for enabling arbitrary developer code consumption of web-based data
20110099192 - Translation model and method for matching reviews to objects
20110099464 - Mechanism for adding content from a search to a document or message
20110099502 - Developer interface and associated methods for system for querying and consuming web-based data
20110093270 - Replacing an audio portion
20110093332 - System for separating mobile search traffic from web search traffic using keyword separation
20110093452 - Automatic comparative analysis
20110093459 - Incorporating recency in network search using machine learning
20110093789 - Method and system for completing an edit area of a web page
20110087553 - Bitrate preview for video objects
20110087558 - Information exchange system
20110087655 - Search ranking for time-sensitive queries by feedback control
20110088009 - Tutorial systems for code creation and provenance tracking
20110083031 - System and method for slow ad detection

March 2011 - Yahoo Inc patents

20110077935 - Apparatus and methods for user generated translation
20110078013 - Rate-based auction-format online advertisement management
20110078147 - Segmentation of search topics in query logs
20110078269 - Employing pixel density to detect a spam image
20110071898 - System and method for updating search advertisements during search results navigation
20110071909 - Expressive bidding online advertising auction mechanisms
20110071908 - Expressive bidding in online advertising auctions
20110071965 - System and method for cross domain learning for data augmentation
20110072010 - Systems and methods for personalized search sourcing
20110072021 - Semantic and text matching techniques for network search
20110072023 - Detect, index, and retrieve term-group attributes for network search
20110072045 - Creating vertical search engines for individual search queries
20110072089 - Method and system for synchronizing software module hosts
20110072125 - Employing matching of event characteristics to suggest another characteristic of an event
20110072223 - Method and system for managing cookies in web communications
20110066495 - System and method for customizing ads in web and mobile applications
20110066618 - Query term relationship characterization for query response determination
20110066725 - Social news ranking using gossip distance
20110058508 - Communication platform and method for packet communication between a service provider and a radio communicaiton device
20110059799 - Selecting sporting events based on event status
20110060667 - Monetization of interactive network-based information objects
20110060735 - System and method for generating expertise based search results
20110060746 - Matching reviews to objects using a language model
20110061001 - Synchronization of advertisment display updates with user revisitation rates
20110054999 - System and method for predicting user navigation within sponsored search advertisements
20110055003 - Budget-influenced ranking and pricing in sponsored search
20110055018 - Dynamic bid pricing for sponsored search
20110055023 - Above the fold
20110055132 - Identification and measurement of social influence and correlation
20110055156 - Method for efficient storage node replacement
20110055229 - System and method for generating a valuation of revenue opportunity for a keyword from a valuation of online sessions on a website from user activities following a keyword search
20110055238 - Methods and systems for generating non-overlapping facets for a query
20110055243 - System and method for finding top n pairs in a map-reduce setup
20110055349 - System and method for transmission of dns beacons
20110055494 - Method for distributed direct object access storage
20110055721 - Indicating unavailability of an uploaded video file that is being bitrate encoded
20110055725 - Taking action upon users in a social networking system with respect to a purpose based on compatibility of the users to the purpose

November 2010 - Yahoo Inc patents

20100280879 - Gift incentive engine

April 2010 - Yahoo Inc patents

20100082684 - Method and system for providing personalized web experience

February 2010 - Yahoo Inc patents

20100049586 - Method for determining an advertising slate based on an expected utility
20100049604 - Advertising in an online community
20100049697 - Information sharing in an online community
20100036730 - Method and system for displaying online advertisements
20100036733 - Method and system for dynamically updating online advertisements
20100036865 - Method for generating score-optimal r-trees

December 2009 - Yahoo Inc patents

20090319173 - Method and apparatus for presenting navigation information
20090313581 - Non-mouse computer input method and apparatus
20090313679 - Personal travel organizer and online travelogue

November 2009 - Yahoo Inc patents

20090276468 - Method for media fingerprinting
20090276468 - Method for media fingerprinting

July 2009 - Yahoo Inc patents

20090182614 - System and method for serving advertisements according to network traffic

June 2009 - Yahoo Inc patents

20090157559 - System and method for internet marketing by endorsements
20090158180 - System and method of styling an embedded widget
20090144138 - Method and system of advertisement management

May 2009 - Yahoo Inc patents

20090138495 - Method and system of providing user augmented content
20090125812 - System and method for an extensible media player
20090125951 - System and method for a personal video inbox channel

April 2009 - Yahoo Inc patents

20090106104 - System and method for implementing an ad management system for an extensible media player
20090106104 - System and method for implementing an ad management system for an extensible media player
20090106104 - System and method for implementing an ad management system for an extensible media player
20090106315 - Extensions for system and method for an extensible media player
20090106315 - Extensions for system and method for an extensible media player
20090106315 - Extensions for system and method for an extensible media player
20090106639 - System and method for an extensible media player
20090106639 - System and method for an extensible media player
20090106639 - System and method for an extensible media player
20090100066 - Identity management
20090100356 - Method for presenting a web page
20090100375 - Content navigation method and user interface
20090094200 - Method for admission-controlled caching
20090094416 - System and method for caching posting lists
20090089668 - System and method of automatically sizing and adapting a widget to available space
20090089668 - System and method of automatically sizing and adapting a widget to available space



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