US 11,855,949 B2
Companion user accounts
Gnanavel Shanmugam, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Yahoo Ad Tech LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on May 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/740,397.
Prior Publication US 2023/0370411 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 51/42 (2022.01); H04L 51/21 (2022.01); H04L 51/063 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/42 (2022.05) [H04L 51/063 (2013.01); H04L 51/21 (2022.05); H04L 51/52 (2022.05); H04L 67/306 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
20. A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions that when executed cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
generating a companion email account without a user specifying an email address of the companion email account, wherein the companion email account is different than a primary email account of the user, wherein a service status of the primary email account changes from a first status to a second status in association with the generating the companion email account;
when the service status of the primary email account is the first status, providing a first set of services for the primary email account;
when the service status of the primary email account is the second status, providing a second set of services for the primary email account, wherein the second set of services is different than the first set of services;
displaying, via an email client application, a first email interface that provides access to resources associated with the primary email account;
displaying, via the email client application, a second email interface that provides access to resources associated with the companion email account;
generating a content targeting profile associated with the companion email account based upon at least one of:
activity associated with the companion email account; or
one or more interests selected by the user;
selecting, from among a plurality of content items and based upon the content targeting profile, a subset of content items for presentation via the second email interface associated with the companion email account; and
displaying a first content item of the subset of content items via the second email interface associated with the companion email account.