IP Library Granted Patent US 9,367,633
Granted Patent B2
US 9,367,633 · App. 13/538,798 · Granted Jun 14, 2016

Method or system for ranking related news predictions

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Patent No.
US 9,367,633
App. No.
13/538,798
Granted
Jun 14, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to rank related news predictions and to provide one or more predictions to a user. In a particular implementation, one or more digital signals representing a query may be generated at least partially in response to an article being accessed by a user. One or more digital signals representing one or more predictions comprising one or more sentence portions having one or more references to one or more future dates may be obtained based at least in part on a comparison of the one or more digital signals representing the query with one or more digital signals representing a prediction index.

Claims (27)

1. A method, comprising:

executing machine-readable instructions by a special purpose computing apparatus, wherein the executing the instructions results in the following being performed:

generating a query, by the special purpose computing apparatus, based, at least in part, on one or more features or characteristics of an electronic document at least partially in response to the electronic document being accessed by a user, wherein the generating the query comprises generating one or more digital signals comprising the query; and

obtaining one or more digital signals comprising one or more predictions comprising one or more sentence portions having one or more references to one or more future dates based at least in part on a comparison of the one or more digital signals comprising the query with one or more digital signals comprising a prediction index, wherein the one or more digital signals comprising the one or more predictions are extracted from a temporal collection of documents comprising at least personal emails.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the one or more predictions is based at least in part on a relevance between the electronic document being accessed by the user and the one or more predictions.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the relevance is based at least in part on a term similarity between the electronic document being accessed by the user and one or more terms of the one or more predictions.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the relevance is based at least in part on a topic similarity between the electronic document being accessed by the user and one or more topics of the one or more predictions.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the relevance is based at least in part on a temporal similarity between the electronic document being accessed by the user and the one or more predictions.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more future dates comprises an implicit temporal expression.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generated query comprises one or more keywords and a time of the generated query.

8. A system, comprising:

a receiver to receive one or more signals;

a processor to:

generate a query to be based, at least in part, on one or more features or characteristics of an electronic document, and at least partially in response to receipt of the one or more signals to indicate an access of the electronic document by a user; and

determine one or more predictions to comprise one or more sentence portions to have one or more references to one or more future dates to be based at least in part on a comparison of the query with a prediction index, wherein the one or more predictions are to be extracted from a temporal collection of documents to comprise at least personal emails.

9. The system of claim 8 , further comprising a transmitter to transmit the one or more predictions to the user.

10. The system of claim 8 , the processor to determine the one or more predictions to be based at least in part on a relevance between the electronic document to be accessed by the user and one or more topics of the one or more predictions.

11. The system of claim 8 , the query to be generated to comprise one or more keywords and a time of the generated query.

12. An article, comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions to be executable by a special purpose apparatus to:

generate a query to be based, at least in part, on one or more features or characteristics of an electronic document at least partially in response to an access of the electronic document by a user; and

obtain one or more predictions to comprise one or more sentence portions to have one or more references to one or more future dates to be based at least in part on a comparison of the query with a prediction index, wherein the one or more predictions are to be extracted from a temporal collection of documents to comprise at least personal emails.

13. The article of claim 12 , wherein the machine-readable instructions are to be further executable by the special purpose apparatus to determine the one or more predictions to be based at least in part on a relevance between the access of the electronic document by the user and the one or more predictions.

14. The article of claim 13 , wherein the relevance is to be based at least in part on a term similarity between the access of the electronic document by the user and one or more terms of the one or more predictions.

15. The article of claim 13 , wherein the relevance is to be based at least in part on a topic similarity between the electronic document to be accessed by the user and one or more topics of the one or more predictions.

16. The article of claim 13 , wherein the relevance is to be based at least in part on a temporal similarity between the electronic document to be accessed by the user and the one or more predictions.

17. The article of claim 13 , the query to be generated to comprise one or more keywords and a time of the query to be generated.

Assignments (6)
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (FIRST LIEN) Recorded Sep 29, 2022
From: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
To: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 061571/0773 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 16, 2021
From: YAHOO AD TECH LLC (FORMERLY VERIZON MEDIA INC.)
To: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
Reel/Frame 058982/0282 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2020
From: OATH INC.
To: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
Reel/Frame 054258/0635 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2018
From: YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC.
To: OATH INC.
Reel/Frame 045240/0310 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 23, 2017
From: YAHOO! INC.
To: YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 042963/0211 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 29, 2012
From: BLANCO, ROI; MATTHEWS, MICHAEL PATRICK; MIKA, PETER
To: YAHOO! INC.
Reel/Frame 028473/0116 →