Yahoo!, Inc., a Delaware corporation Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130124509 | PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE BASED METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ASSOCIATING DATA FILES - Various methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented using one or more computing devices within a networked computing environment to employ publish-subscribe techniques to associate subscriber encoded data files with a set of publisher encoded data files. | 05-16-2013 |
20120012278 | COLD ROW ENCAPSULATION FOR SERVER FARM COOLING SYSTEM - Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow one or more fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves fanless servers installed on the server racks and introduces fan units to draw cooling air from the cold row encapsulation structure through the fanless servers on the racks. | 01-19-2012 |
20110208718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING ANCHOR IDENTIFIERS TO SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to determine one or more selectable anchor identifiers for one or more search results. | 08-25-2011 |
20110166942 | CONTRACT AUCTIONS FOR SPONSORED SEARCH - Example methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support contract auctions for sponsored search advertising for use in auction management systems. | 07-07-2011 |
20110087673 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO RANKING FUNCTIONS FOR MULTIPLE DOMAINS - Methods and systems are disclosed that relate to ranking functions for multiple different domains. By way of example but not limitation, ranking functions for multiple different domains may be trained based on inter-domain loss, and such ranking functions may be used to rank search results from multiple different domains so that they may be blended without normalizing relevancy scores. | 04-14-2011 |
20110072025 | RANKING ENTITY RELATIONS USING EXTERNAL CORPUS - Exemplary methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support ranking entity relations utilizing the vocabulary of at least one external corpus for use in search engine information management systems. | 03-24-2011 |
20110054960 | DYNAMIC WEB PAGE CREATION - Briefly, in accordance with at least one embodiment, a method or apparatus capable of creating or generating web pages dynamically (or a portion thereof) is disclosed. | 03-03-2011 |
20100332491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING USER SELECTION DATA TO DETERMINE RELEVANCE OF A WEB DOCUMENT FOR A SEARCH QUERY - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to utilize user selection data on web documents in a list of search results to provide relevant search results in response to a search query. | 12-30-2010 |
20100306210 | CLUSTERING IDENTICAL OR DISJOINT KEYWORD SETS FOR USE WITH AUCTIONS FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING SPACE - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to clustering identical or disjoint keyword sets for use with auctions for online advertising space. | 12-02-2010 |
20100287129 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS RELATING TO CATEGORIZING OR SELECTING POTENTIAL SEARCH RESULTS - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with categorizing or selecting potential search engine results are disclosed. | 11-11-2010 |
20100280889 | INVENTORY AGGREGATION ON AN ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to online advertising inventory purchase controls. | 11-04-2010 |
20100268709 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING A RELEVANCE SCORE - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with calibrating one or more relevance scores are disclosed. | 10-21-2010 |
20100228745 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SORTING AT LEAST PARTIALLY DYNAMIC DATA - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with sorting candidate values are disclosed. | 09-09-2010 |
20100205183 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SELECTIVE DECODING OF SEARCH RESULT MESSAGES - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to selectively decode results in messages received from child nodes for a particular search query. | 08-12-2010 |
20100199165 | UPDATING WRAPPER ANNOTATIONS - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to updating wrapper annotations are disclosed. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198770 | IDENTIFYING PREVIOUSLY ANNOTATED WEB PAGE INFORMATION - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to identifying previously annotated web page information are disclosed. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198689 | METHOD, SYSTEM, OR APPRATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A BUDGET BALANCED/SURPLUS SYNDICATED SPONSORED SEARCH MARKET - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to implementing a budget balanced/surplus syndicated sponsored search market. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198688 | METHOD, SYSTEM, OR APPARATUS FOR A TRUTHFUL PRICING SCHEME FOR A SELLER - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to truthful pricing schemes for a seller. | 08-05-2010 |
20100169339 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS FOR UPDATING STORED SEARCH RESULT VALUES - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with updating stored internet search query result values are disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100158395 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING IMAGE SPAM - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to determine a whether an image contains spam. In one particular embodiment, an image is transformed and spam is detected based on such a transformed image. | 06-24-2010 |