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20100299824 | Jet Powered Toilet Flushing System - A jet powered toilet flushing system, including: a toilet bowl; a reservoir; a fluid conduit between the reservoir and the toilet bowl; a jet inside the reservoir, the jet having a nozzle directed toward an entrance of the fluid conduit; a fill valve that supplies water to the jet; and a flow diverter in the reservoir, the flow diverter positioned to divert water flow: (a) from the jet nozzle into the entrance of the fluid conduit when the reservoir is full, or (b) from the jet nozzle away from the entrance of the fluid conduit and into the reservoir when the reservoir is empty. | 12-02-2010 |
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20120004778 | Vacation Faucet Apparatus and Method - A system and method for preventing damage and undesirable situations/conditions from occurring in point of use (POU) or point of entry (POE) water systems that are not in regular use. This invention may be implemented in residential, non-residential situations or constructions where it can add value, such as commercial properties that undergo seasonal and/or other periods of disuse. In cold climate areas, faucets should be turned on and run to prevent water in the pipes from freezing, which can cause pipes to burst or leak and result in significant property damage. In all climates rust, corrosion, particles, contamination, and biofilm, can develop and/or settle in the pipes if faucets are not turned on periodically, resulting in sub-standard water quality when the system is eventually used. Also, if water is left to sit in residential pipes, other effects/conditions can take place over time that generally effect color, taste and order of the water if it does not periodically move through the system. | 01-05-2012 |
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20090246862 | BIOLUMINOGENIC ASSAY SYSTEM FOR MEASURING BETA-LACTAMASE ACTIVITY - A bioluminogenic assay system including: providing a bioluminogenic substrate incorporating a beta-lactam antibiotic, a bioluminescence initiating compound, and a chemical linkage joining the beta-lactam antibiotic to the bioluminescence initiating compound; exposing the bioluminogenic substrate to a beta-lactamase enzyme that catalyzes the release of the bioluminescence initiating compound from the bioluminogenic substrate; co-exposing the bioluminogenic substrate to a bioluminescence indicator reaction that employs the bioluminescence initiating compound as a substrate; and detecting a light from the bioluminescence indicator reaction as a measure of the activity of the beta-lactamase enzyme. | 10-01-2009 |
20100035290 | ENZYME DETECTION SYSTEM WITH CAGED SUBSTRATES - An enzyme detection method includes forming a caged substrate; releasing an uncaged substrate by cleaving a caging molecules from the caged substrate; and emitting a light emission from a Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer luminescent nanocrystal conjugate reacting with the uncaged substrate. | 02-11-2010 |
20100047172 | Use of bacterial beta-lactamase for in vitro diagnostics and in vivo imaging, diagnostics and therapeutics - Provided herein are imaging methods for detecting, diagnosing and imaging pathogenic bacteria or a pathophysiological condition associated therewith using fluorescent, luminescent or colorimetric detection agents, e.g., fluorogenic substrates for bacterial enzymes, caged luciferins and fluorescent proteins, luciferases and enzymes expressed by recombinant bacteria. Signals emitted by the fluorescent, luminescent or colorimetric detection agents in the presence of the bacteria are compared to controls to detect and locate the pathogenic bacteria. Also provided is a method for screening therapeutic agents to treat the pathophysiological conditions by measuring fluorescence or luminescence emitted from the detection agents in the presence and absence of the potential therapeutic agent. In addition, a method for detecting a pathogenic bacteria via PET or SPECT imaging using a positron-emitting or gamma-emitting substrate for a beta-lactamase or other enzyme or protein of the pathogenic bacteria. Further provided are the fluorogenic substrates CNIR-7 or CNIR7-TAT or the radiolabeled substrates. | 02-25-2010 |
20100055725 | SYSTEM FOR ASSAYS OF AMINOTRANSFERASE - An assay system ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100068741 | ASSAY SYSTEM FOR ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE AND CREATINE KINASE - An assay method includes providing a luminescent nanocrystal; combining a solution having an adenosine triphosphate molecule; and displaying a light emission by the luminescent nanocrystal and the solution combined. | 03-18-2010 |
20110020240 | Use of bacterial beta-lactamase for in vitro diagnostics and in vivo imaging, diagnostics and therapeutics - Provided herein are imaging methods for detecting, diagnosing and imaging pathogenic bacteria or a pathophysiological condition associated therewith using fluorogenic substrates for bacterial enzymes. Fluorescent, luminescent or colorimetric signals emitted by substrates or enzyme products in the presence of the bacteria are compared to controls to detect and locate the pathogenic bacteria. Provided is a method for screening therapeutic agents to treat the pathophysiological conditions by measuring a signal emitted from the fluorogenic substrates or products in the presence and absence of the potential therapeutic agent. In addition, a diagnostic method for detecting a mycobacterial infection in a subject by contacting biological samples with a fluorogenic substrate and imaging for signals emitted from a mycobacterial beta-lactamase product. Provided are fluorogenic substrates CC1, CC2, CHPQ, CR2, CNIR1, CNIR2, CNIR3, CNIR4, CNIR5, CNIR5-QSY22, CNIR7, CNIR9, CNIR10, CNIR-TAT, CDC-1, CDC-2, CDC-3, CDC-4, CDC-5, XHX2-81, XHX2-91, XHX3-26, or XHX3-32 or a derivative thereof. | 01-27-2011 |
20110200529 | ACTIVATABLE BIOLUMINESCENT PROBE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A method of use of an activatable bioluminescent probe system includes: providing a bioluminescent protein and a quencher in a reaction environment; modifying a ligand between the quencher and the bioluminescent protein using a ligand interacting molecule; adding a bioluminescence initiating molecule to the reaction environment; and measuring light originating from the interaction between the bioluminescent protein and the bioluminescence initiating molecule. | 08-18-2011 |
20110201781 | CYSTEINE LABELING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A method of use of a cysteine labeling system includes: providing a 2-cyano benzothial core with a covalently-linked biomolecule X in a reaction environment; and reacting the 2-cyano benzothial core to an N-terminal cystenine. | 08-18-2011 |
20110278554 | Hybrid quantum dot/protein nanostructure, methods of making, and methods of use thereof - Embodiments of the present disclosure include hybrid quantum dot/protein nanostructure, hybrid quantum dot/protein nanostructure systems, methods of using hybrid quantum dot/protein nanostructures, and the like. | 11-17-2011 |
20130164221 | USE OF BACTERIAL BETA-LACTAMASE FOR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS AND IN VIVO IMAGING, DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS - Provided herein are methods for detecting, quantifying, differentiating, diagnosing and imaging pathogenic bacteria or condition associated therewith using substrates for bacterial enzymes. Fluorescent, luminescent or colorimetric signals emitted by substrates or enzyme products in the presence of the bacteria are compared to controls to detect and locate the pathogenic bacteria. Provided is a method for screening therapeutic agents to treat the pathophysiological conditions by measuring a signal emitted from the substrates or products in the presence and absence of the potential therapeutic agent and a diagnostic method for detecting a mycobacterial infection in a subject by contacting biological samples with a substrate and imaging for signals emitted from a mycobacterial beta-lactamase product. Also provided are fluorogenic substrates or substrates comprising a colored dye or a chemical reagent effective to induce a color or pH change. | 06-27-2013 |
20130272966 | RET2IR CONJUGATES, RET2IR CONJUGATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - Embodiments of the present disclosure include conjugate systems, methods of using conjugate systems, RET | 10-17-2013 |
20140004049 | NANOPROBES FOR SENSING OF REACTIVE OXYGEN AND REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES | 01-02-2014 |
20140127712 | USE OF BACTERIAL BETA-LACTAMASE FOR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS AND IN VIVO IMAGING, DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS - Provided herein are assays and in vitro methods to determine susceptibility to a drug effective against a pathogenic bacteria, for example, a pathogenic Mycobacteria, that has a beta-lactamase activity. An excitation wavelength is delivered to a biological sample obtained from a subject having an infection from the pathogenic bacteria in the presence of a beta-lactamase substrate. The intensity of a signal, such as a fluorescent, luminescent or colorimetric signal, at an emission wavelength of a product of the beta-lactamase on the subject is correlated to drug susceptibility. Also provided is an assay system for monitoring drug susceptibility of a pathogenic bacteria comprising color-producing substrates for a beta-lactamase of the pathogenic bacteria, an assay device for visibly detecting a product of the beta-lactamase on the substrate thereof and a reader configured to quantify the visibly detected product. | 05-08-2014 |
20150031996 | SEMICONDUCTING POLYMER NANOPARTICLES AS PHOTOACOUSTIC MOLECULAR IMAGING PROBES - Provided are nanoparticles comprising an organic photovoltaic semiconductor polymer and a phospholipid, the semiconductor polymer being near-infra red absorbing and generating a detectable photoacoustic signal and a fluorescent emission when irradiated by an incident activation energy. Also provided are methods of molecular imaging, comprising delivering to a subject a plurality of said nanoparticles, irradiating the subject with a first incident energy to generate a first photoacoustic signal, irradiating the subject with a second incident energy to generate a second photoacoustic signal, determining a ratio of the intensities of the two photoacoustic signals, comparing this first ratio with a second ratio determined from the nanoparticles before delivery to the subject, whereby a difference in said first and second ratios indicates ROS degradation of the nanoparticles in the subject; and generating a ratiometric image indicating the difference in said first and second ratios relative to an image of the subject. | 01-29-2015 |
20150056137 | CASPASE-TRIGGERED NANO-AGGREGATION PROBES AND METHODS OF USE - Provided is an activatable probe that undergoes intramolecular cyclization and subsequent aggregation in apoptotic tumor cells upon peptidase-initiated, and most advantageously caspase-3, activation. These caspase-sensitive nano-aggregation probes (C-SNAFs) are generally biocompatible, possess NIR spectral properties or may serve as PET or MRI imaging agents, and have a mechanism of target-mediated nanostructure self-assembly amenable to in vivo use. The probes encompass biocompatible condensation chemistry products that comprise D-cysteine and 2-cyano-6-hydroxyquinoline (CHQ) moieties linked to an amino-luciferin scaffold, and which can be activated by a two-step reaction requiring caspase-3/7-mediated cleavage of an aspartate-glutamate-valine-aspartate (L-DEVD) capping peptide and the free intracellular thiol-mediated reduction of the disulfide bond. | 02-26-2015 |
20150219653 | 2,7-DISUBSTITUTED CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVES AS BETA-LACTAMASE SUBSTRATES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS - β-Lactamase substrates and methods for using the substrates to detect β-lactamase and to diagnose tuberculosis. | 08-06-2015 |
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20130145022 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE MEDIA IMPRESSIONS - Examples to determine media impressions are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a cookie identifier established by a database proprietor at a computing device, determining an impression of media, wherein the impression occurs after the cookie identifier is established, determining a first panelist identifier associated with the impression based on the cookie identifier, determining a second panelist identifier associated with the impression based on determination of a user identity by a panelist meter associated with the computing device, and storing an adjustment factor determined by comparing the first panelist identifier and the second panelist identifier. | 06-06-2013 |
20140358676 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE AN ADJUSTMENT FACTOR FOR MEDIA IMPRESSIONS - Examples to determine media impressions are disclosed. An example method includes determining an exposure of first media, wherein the exposure occurs after a cookie identifier is received at a computing device, wherein the cookie identifier is received from a database proprietor, determining a first panelist identifier associated with the exposure based on the cookie identifier, determining a second panelist identifier associated with the exposure based on a determination of a user identity by a panelist meter associated with the computing device, determining an adjustment factor by comparing the first panelist identifier and the second panelist identifier, determining a number of impressions of second media from data logged by the database proprietor, the data logged in response to requests transmitted to the database proprietor in response to clients accessing the second media, and applying the adjustment factor to the number of impressions to determine an adjusted number of impressions. | 12-04-2014 |
20150095138 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE AUDIENCE DUPLICATION IN CROSS-MEDIA CAMPAIGNS - A disclosed example method to determine audience duplication in cross-media campaigns involves determining a first duplicated audience reach for a demographic group between a total television audience and an internet publisher audience. The total television audience is representative of audience members across a plurality of television networks. The internet publisher audience is representative of audience members of one of a plurality of internet publishers. The example method involves determining a second duplicated audience reach between the total television audience and the internet publisher audience for a media campaign based on the first duplicated audience reach. The example method involves determining a third duplicated audience reach between a television network audience and the internet publisher audience for the media campaign based on the second duplicated audience reach. The television network audience is representative of audience members exposed to the media campaign via one of the plurality of television networks. | 04-02-2015 |
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20080320225 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHING AND SERVING DYNAMIC CONTENT - A web server and a shared caching server are described for serving dynamic content to users of at least two different types, where the different types of users receive different versions of the dynamic content. A version of the dynamic content includes a validation header, such as an ETag, that stores information indicative of the currency of the dynamic content and information indicative of a user type for which the version of the dynamic content is intended. In response to a user request for the dynamic content, the shared caching server sends a validation request to the web server with the validation header information. The web server determines, based on the user type of the requestor and/or on the currency of the cached dynamic content whether to instruct the shared caching server to send the cached content or to send updated content for serving to the user. | 12-25-2008 |
20130138763 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHING AND SERVING DYNAMIC CONTENT - A web server and a shared caching server are described for serving dynamic content to users of at least two different types, where the different types of users receive different versions of the dynamic content. A version of the dynamic content includes a validation header, such as an ETag, that stores information indicative of the currency of the dynamic content and information indicative of a user type for which the version of the dynamic content is intended. In response to a user request for the dynamic content, the shared caching server sends a validation request to the web server with the validation header information. The web server determines, based on the user type of the requestor and/or on the currency of the cached dynamic content whether to instruct the shared caching server to send the cached content or to send updated content for serving to the user. | 05-30-2013 |
20140344341 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHING AND SERVING DYNAMIC CONTENT - A web server and a shared caching server are described for serving dynamic content to users of at least two different types, where the different types of users receive different versions of the dynamic content. A version of the dynamic content includes a validation header, such as an ETag, that stores information indicative of the currency of the dynamic content and information indicative of a user type for which the version of the dynamic content is intended. In response to a user request for the dynamic content, the shared caching server sends a validation request to the web server with the validation header information. The web server determines, based on the user type of the requestor and/or on the currency of the cached dynamic content whether to instruct the shared caching server to send the cached content or to send updated content for serving to the user. | 11-20-2014 |
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20080222106 | Media content search results ranked by popularity - Media content search results ranked by popularity is described. In embodiment(s), a search request for television media content can be initiated by a viewer, and television media content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The relevant television media content can then be ranked based on a popularity rating such that the relevant television media content can be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered by popularity rankings. | 09-11-2008 |
20090248515 | Remote Control Device to Display Advertisements - Techniques to display advertisements on a remote control device are described. In an implementation, a remote control device includes a display device and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to initiate one or more control functions related to control of an output of content by a client. The one or more modules are also configured to detect manual interaction and initiate a first mode to display an advertisement on the display device when the manual interaction has not been detected. A second mode is initiated by the one or more modules to display one or more representations of the one or more control functions when the manual interaction is detected. | 10-01-2009 |
20090249388 | Confirmation of Advertisement Viewing - Techniques to confirm advertisement viewing are described. In an implementation, an advertisement is displayed on a remote control device having functionality to initiate one or more control functions to control a display of content by a client. A user is confirmed to have viewed an advertisement output by the client through interaction with the advertisement displayed on the remote control device. | 10-01-2009 |
20090251619 | Remote Control Device Personalization - Techniques to personalize a remote control device are described. In an implementation, a remote control device includes a display device and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to determine an identity of a user and initiate one or more control functions related to control of a display of content by a client. The one or more modules are also configured to personalize a display of representations of the one or more control functions on the display device based on the determined identity of the user. | 10-08-2009 |
20100299692 | Media Content Search Results Ranked by Popularity - Media content search results ranked by popularity is described. In embodiment(s), a search request for television media content can be initiated by a viewer, and television media content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The relevant television media content can then be ranked based on a popularity rating and the relevant television media content can be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered by popularity rankings. | 11-25-2010 |
20130283306 | MEDIA CONTENT SEARCH RESULTS RANKED BY POPULARITY - Media content search results ranked by popularity is described. In embodiment(s), a search request for television media content can be initiated by a viewer, and television media content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The relevant television media content can then be ranked based on a popularity rating and the relevant television media content can be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered by popularity rankings. | 10-24-2013 |
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20140344281 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE VIRALITY OF INTERNET CONTENT USING INDICES - A system may measure the virality of content items on a network. The virality may be measured for Internet content using indices. Indices may be generated that represent the share or news worthiness of content. An indexer may monitor the content items and generate a score which may be used to identify which content items are most likely to receive a user access request or referral from the remote server. A logic generator may display visual elements as graphical representations of the index score. | 11-20-2014 |
20140380199 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUALLY ENRICHING CONTENT OF A REFERRER PAGE WHEN RETURNING FROM A LANDING PAGE - Methods and systems for providing content on a webpage includes rendering a webpage having a plurality of page areas. Each of the plurality of page areas is associated with an entity having display content. Selection of one of the plurality of page areas is detected. The selection causes a landing page to be rendered in place of the webpage. A return to the webpage from the landing page is detected. In response to the return, the selected page area of the webpage is modified to include at least one additional entity having associated display content. | 12-25-2014 |
20150032740 | PERSONAL TRENDS MODULE - A system and method for generating a personalized trends module includes steps of: for a given user, producing a social timeline by logging content posted on the given user's accounts on social media sites; analyzing the social timeline for recently posted content to derive an interim summary of first trending topics for the given user; receiving from a content personalization platform an in-stream feed of second trending topics based on the user's recent on-line activity including page views, queries, and clicks; augmenting the social timeline with the second trending topics from the in-stream feed to produce an interim list of third trending topics; ranking the third trending topics by source category using a frequency index; selecting the highest ranking third trending topics from each source category; and presenting a personalized trends module with positions allocated to the highest ranking third trending topics. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039419 | KEYWORD PRICE RECOMMENDATION - An system can include a server that includes or is associated with a keyword price recommendation module. The module can be configured to recommend an optimal price for a keyword, per referral event, in a search engine marketing campaign. For making such a recommendation, the module can be configured to determine revenue generated per referral event for the keyword according to a number of referral events for the keyword for a plurality of users and revenue generated for the keyword by the plurality of users. It can also be configured to select a return on investment percentage for the keyword, and determine the optimal price for the keyword according to the revenue generated per referral event and the return on investment percentage. Additionally or alternatively, the keyword price recommendation module can be configured to calculate the return on investment percentage for the keyword according to at least one market condition. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039420 | AUDIENCE CENTRIC PRICING - A system can include a server that includes or is associated with a revenue analysis module. The module can be configured to receive user web browsing session data from a data source. The session data may include page view data, page interaction data, and page referral data. The module may also be configured to determine page referral events, revenue generating events, and relationships between the page referral events and the revenue generating events, according to at least part of the session data. The revenue generating events may include events in which a user interaction with the webpage generates revenue. The module may also be configured to determine revenue generated by the revenue generating events per page referral event of the page referral events, according to the relationships between the page referral events and the revenue generating events. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039424 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENTS - Disclosed is a system and method for providing automated micro-targeted advertisements to a small group of engaged users based on the users' interactions with each other. The systems and methods disclosed provide relevant advertisements to members of a small targeted online group, where the members of the group share common interests, behaviors, preferences, online activities, and the like. The advertisements include calls to action for a receiving user to consummate a transaction, which encourages product (or brand) engagement by specifically identifying friends (or other users who have an established relationship with the user) that may be interested in a product, thereby, providing an initial dialogue between the friends over the targeted product. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039426 | REVENUE SHARE ANALYSIS - A revenue share analysis module can determine individual session revenues for content items provided by content providers. The module can also determine total session content revenues for each of the content items according to the determined individual session revenues, and determine respective content values for each of the content items according to the determined total session revenues for each of the content items. It also may determine total session provider revenues for each of the content providers according to the determined total session revenues for each of the content items, and determine respective provider values for each of the content providers according to the determined total session revenues for each of the content providers. Also, it can determine revenue share offers according to the content values and/or the provider values. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039432 | KEYWORD RECOMMENDATION - An example system can include a server that includes or is associated with a keyword recommendation module. The keyword recommendation module can be configured to select keywords for a search engine for use in a search engine marketing campaign, wherein the search engine provides more traffic to Internet content of a publisher than other search engines, for the keywords. The module can also be configured to determine, per keyword, user engagement with the Internet content resulting from the traffic provided by the search engine for the keywords, according to one or more of time spent viewing the Internet content, page views of the Internet content, and dwell times. The module can also be configured to score, per keyword, the keywords according to the determined user engagement with the Internet content, and generate keyword recommendations according to the scoring of the keywords. | 02-05-2015 |
20150066646 | SPARK SATELLITE CLUSTERS TO HADOOP DATA STORES - An advertising and data analysis platform may need to mine through vast amounts of data to come up with insights into advertising effectiveness, and measure and improve the effectiveness of advertising reach. Distributed network data analytics may be applied to ad matching/targeting, such that an in-memory cluster computing environment may be used with advertising data. For example, HADOOP may be utilized for distributed processing of the vast amounts of data and the HADOOP distributed file system (HDFS) is used for organizing communications and storage of that data. Satellite clusters or nodes may be generated that also utilize HDFS. For example, a SPARK or SHARK satellite cluster may be arranged to further utilize the HDFS of the HADOOP clusters. | 03-05-2015 |
20150149502 | AUTOMATIC DRAFT EMAIL NOTIFICATION - A system and method for automatic draft email notification includes the following steps or acts performed while a user is engaged with a first email in an active email session: retrieving a value from the first email to use as a search term; accessing draft emails associated with the user; determining if the search term from the first email matches a corresponding string in the draft emails associated with the user; and presenting the draft emails that match the search term as a listing of selectable draft emails. | 05-28-2015 |
20150227628 | RECURSIVE UNIQUE USER METRICS IN REAL TIME - A system can provide unique user metrics associated with a node in a hierarchy and the node's decedents in real time. This can occur by merging sketches of the node and its decedents to form a merged sketch, and retrieving the unique user metrics from the merged sketch. The sketches and the merged sketch may each be a separate data form, such as a hash. The hierarchy may include an online content taxonomy and the sketches of each node may include unique user metrics associated with the node, such as user interaction metrics associated with a category of content of the node. The system may build sketches for the nodes of a hierarchy, associate each sketch with its ancestor sketches, invert the associations, tie corresponding descendant sketches of an ancestor sketch based on the inversions, and merge the descendant sketches with their ancestor sketches to generate the merged sketches. | 08-13-2015 |
20150242886 | AD IMPRESSION AVAILABILITY AND ASSOCIATED ADJUSTMENT VALUES - A system can provide ad impression availability for one or more audience segments or at least part of an ad campaign. The system can also adjust such ad impression availability at different stages of ad production, booking, and delivery, such as at a time immediately prior to serving an ad impression or at a time of presenting ad impression availability to an advertiser at booking of ad impressions. Adjustments can be based on attributes of the audience segment(s) or the at least part of an ad campaign. For example, ad impression availability can be adjusted according to breadth and/or popularity of the segment(s) or the at least part of an ad campaign. | 08-27-2015 |
20150381682 | Podcasts in Personalized Content Streams - Software on a content-aggregation website obtains a resource associated with a podcast from a website publishing the podcast and stores it e resource on the content-aggregation website. The software adds the resource as a leaf node to a taxonomy generated by the content-aggregation website. The addition is based on data associated with the podcast. The non-leaf nodes in the taxonomy are categories of content. The software determines that a user of the content aggregation website is qualified as to at least one category that includes the resource as a leaf node. The determination is based at least in part on feedback from the user that includes a viewing or listening history for the user. Then the software serves the resource to the user in a content stream published by the content-aggregation website, based at least in part on a personalization score associated with the resource. | 12-31-2015 |
20160034592 | PERSONAL TRENDS MODULE - A system and method for generating a personalized trends module includes steps of: for a given user, producing a social timeline by logging content posted on the given user's accounts on social media sites; analyzing the social timeline for recently posted content to derive an interim summary of first trending topics for the given user; receiving from a content personalization platform an in-stream feed of second trending topics based on the user's recent on-line activity including page views, queries, and clicks; augmenting the social timeline with the second trending topics from the in-stream feed to produce an interim list of third trending topics; ranking the third trending topics by source category using a frequency index; selecting the highest ranking third trending topics from each source category; and presenting a personalized trends module with positions allocated to the highest ranking third trending topics. | 02-04-2016 |
20160050254 | CROSS-DEVICE INTEGRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A cross-device messaging integration capability is disclosed, which allows a user using a first device to indicate, using a first user computing device, an intent to perform one or more messaging actions at one or more second user computing device(s). The first and second devices may be different devices. The user may receive a reminder or other notification of the user's intent at the second device(s). | 02-18-2016 |