Analytically determining revenue of internet companies using internet metrics
First Claim
1. A method for estimating current revenue of a company, said method comprising the steps performed by a computer of:
- obtaining the company'"'"'s actual quarterly revenue performance for a plurality of prior quarters, obtaining data points for an Internet metric over the plurality of prior quarters, wherein the Internet metric is related to the company, generating a revenue model for the company using the obtained actual quarterly revenue performance and the obtained Internet metric data points, obtaining one or more current data points for the Internet metric, and estimating the company'"'"'s current revenue by applying the obtained current Internet metric data points to the generated revenue model.
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Abstract
With respect to a current quarter of unreported revenue for certain Internet companies, by processes performed by a computer revenue to date is analytically determined and future revenue for the remaining quarter is statistically projected by modeling revenue based on “Internet metrics”. Actual revenue performance is obtained and one or more “Internet metrics” are measured for a given Internet company. Using the revenue and measured Internet metric data from prior quarters, a regression analysis is performed in order to generate multiple models that reflect the relationship between the Internet metrics and revenue. From these models, one is selected that will most likely yield the best revenue estimates. This resultant model and current Internet metric data are subsequently used to estimate the company'"'"'s revenue for the current day, week, month, or quarter. These estimates are also used to project the company'"'"'s revenue for future days, weeks, months, and quarters.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for estimating current revenue of a company, said method comprising the steps performed by a computer of:
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obtaining the company'"'"'s actual quarterly revenue performance for a plurality of prior quarters, obtaining data points for an Internet metric over the plurality of prior quarters, wherein the Internet metric is related to the company, generating a revenue model for the company using the obtained actual quarterly revenue performance and the obtained Internet metric data points, obtaining one or more current data points for the Internet metric, and estimating the company'"'"'s current revenue by applying the obtained current Internet metric data points to the generated revenue model. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for estimating current revenue of a company, said method comprising the steps performed by a computer of:
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obtaining data points for at least two Internet metrics over a plurality of past quarters, wherein said at least two Internet metrics are related to the company, creating new Internet metric data points over the plurality of past quarters by combining the data points from the at least two Internet metrics, generating a revenue model for the company by using the created new Internet metric data points, creating one or more new Internet metric data points for the current quarter by combining one or more current data points obtained for each of the at least two Internet metrics, and estimating the company'"'"'s current revenue by applying the created new Internet metric data points to the generated revenue model. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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14. A method for estimating current revenue of a company, said method comprising the steps performed by a computer of:
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obtaining data points for each of a plurality of Internet metrics over a plurality of past quarters, wherein said Internet metrics are related to the company, generating a plurality of revenue models for the company by using the obtained data points for each of the plurality of Internet metrics, choosing from the plurality of revenue models a revenue model for estimating current revenue, and estimating the company'"'"'s current revenue by applying currently obtained Internet metric data points to the chosen revenue model.
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