Targeted and neutral advertising

• US 10,068,252 B2
• Filed: 02/29/2016
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Bonalle, David S., Bender, Brian C., Dedeoglu, Mehmet E., Rane, Rajendra R., Odinec, Tamara F., Lowery, Patrick R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stoltenberg, David J
• Application Number:
  US15/055,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20160180387A1
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0204 Market segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0243 Comparative campaigns
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute

Abstract

The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for measuring the effectiveness of an advertisement. In various embodiments, the system may compare exposed data indicating that a first customer was exposed to a targeted advertisement to a first spending activity associated with the first customer. The system may further compare unexposed data indicating that a second customer was exposed to a neutral advertisement to a second spending activity associated with the second customer. Further still, the system may, in various embodiments, generate a spend report based on the comparing the exposed data to the first spending activity and the comparing the unexposed data to the second spending activity.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a computer-based system and to a third party system, a measurement file that associates a first customer with a first spending activity and a first party cookie ID;

transmitting, by the computer-based system, the first party cookie ID and a third party cookie ID to a web client associated with the first customer, in response to the web client browsing on a website associated with a first party,

wherein the web client transmits the first party cookie ID and the third party cookie ID to the third party system in association with web browsing data,

wherein the browsing data is associated with at least one of the web client or the third party cookie ID,

wherein the third party system updates a model file such that the browsing data is associated with the third party cookie ID, and

wherein the third party system transmits the updated model file to the first party system;

receiving, by the computer-based system, an updated measurement file with exposed data and unexposed data, both associated with the third party cookie ID,

wherein the first party cookie ID is disassociated from the exposed data and the unexposed data; and

generating, by the computer-based system, a spend report by comparing the exposed data to the first spending activity based on the first party cookie ID associated with the exposed data and comparing the unexposed data to a second spending activity based on a second party cookie ID associated with the unexposed data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the computer-based system, the exposed data and the unexposed data from the third party system that communicates with a second party ad server system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the exposed data and the unexposed data are associated with first art cookie IDs.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the spend report illustrates an effectiveness of a targeted advertisement, by including the number of exposed customers that purchased based on a targeted advertisement and the number of unexposed customers that purchased based on a neutral advertisement.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the third party system deletes the first party cookie ID from the updated model file,

the first party is unable to identify the first customer without the first party cookie ID, and

the third party is unable to associate the browsing data with the first customer.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the computer-based system and to the third party system, a model file comprising spend data and segment data,

wherein the third party system links the first party cookie ID and the third party cookie ID to the model file,

wherein the third party system creates a model file based on browsing data, the first party cookie ID and the third party cookie ID, and

wherein the third party system causes, based on the model file, the targeted advertisement to be sent to the first customer and the neutral advertisement to be sent to a second customer.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing, by the computer-based system, the updated measurement file in a database; and

tuning, by the computer-based system, the database to optimize database performance,

wherein the tuning includes placing frequently used files on separate file systems to reduce in and out bottlenecks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first party cookie ID is associated with a model, and wherein the model associates the market segment of interest to the first customer with the first party cookie ID.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a second party system provides a second party cookie ID to the web client, and wherein the second party system transmits the web browsing data to the third party system.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

comparing, by the computer-based system, the exposed data to the first spending activity associated with the first customer; and

comparing, by the computer-based system, the unexposed data to the second spending activity associated with a second customer.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the neutral advertisement is based on a second customer conforming to updated model logics.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the exposed data indicates that the first customer was exposed to a targeted advertisement, and wherein the unexposed data indicates that a second customer was exposed to a neutral advertisement.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the model file includes the market segment of interest to the first customer, and

the model file identifies other customers interested in the market segment.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

assigning, by the computer-based system and based on a model file, a model to an advertiser, wherein a segment of the first customer defines the model;

translating, by the computer-based system and based on browsing behavior of the first customer, the segment of the model into targeting logics;

wherein the targeting logics comprise the updated model logics, and

wherein the targeting logics are used to track browsing activity of the first customer, and

wherein a targeted advertisement is transmitted to the first customer, in response to the browsing activity satisfying criteria associated with the targeting logics.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the computer-based system, the targeting logics to a second party system, and wherein the second party system transmits the targeted advertisement to the first customer, based on the model assigned to the advertiser.

16. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory, tangible computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computer-based system, cause the computer-based system to perform operations comprising:

transmitting, by the computer-based system and to a third party system, a measurement file that associates a first customer with a first spending activity and a first party cookie ID;

transmitting, by the computer-based system, the first party cookie ID and a third party cookie ID to a web client associated with the first customer, in response to the web client browsing on a website associated with a first party,

wherein the web client transmits the first party cookie ID and the third party cookie ID to the third party system in association with web browsing data,

wherein the browsing data is associated with at least one of the web client or the third party cookie ID,

wherein the third party system updates a model file such that the browsing data is associated with the third party cookie ID, and

wherein the third party system transmits the updated model file to the first party system;

receiving, by the computer-based system, an updated measurement file with exposed data and unexposed data, both associated with the third party cookie ID,

wherein the first party cookie ID is disassociated from the exposed data and the unexposed data; and

generating, by the computer-based system, a spend report by comparing the exposed data to the first spending activity based on the first party cookie ID associated with the exposed data and comparing the unexposed data to a second spending activity based on a second party cookie ID associated with the unexposed data.