System and method for pay for performance advertising employing multiple sets of advertisement listings
First Claim
1. A computer system for a pay for performance advertising system, the computer system comprising:
- an advertiser account database maintained in computer readable media the advertiser account database comprising a plurality of advertising accounts having funds associated therewith;
an advertiser keyword database maintained in computer readable media, the advertiser keyword database divided into a plurality of partitions, each partition capable of having an advertiser listing associated with an advertising content page of an advertising client computer and including a keyword having a bid denomination;
a query processing subsection operatively coupled to the advertiser keywords database and programmed to;
submit a search query responsive to a search term generated on a query client to the advertiser keyword database to determine a set of advertiser listings associated with a partition in the advertising keyword database; and
return search results to the query client computer, the search results including advertiser listings having keywords which substantially match the search term generated on the query client and which are ordered in accordance with a financial statistic associated with the keywords in the advertiser keyword database and which provides a link to the associated advertising content page.
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Abstract
A computer system for a pay for performance advertising system comprises an advertiser account database maintained in computer readable media the advertiser account database including a plurality of advertising accounts having funds associated with a plurality of transactional channels, an advertiser keyword database maintained in computer readable media, the advertiser keyword database divided into a plurality of partitions, each partition capable of having an advertiser listing associated with an advertising content page of an advertising client computer and including a keyword having a bid denomination. A query processing subsection is operatively coupled to the advertiser keywords database and is programmed to submit a search query responsive to a search term generated on a query client to the advertiser keyword database to determine a set of advertiser listings associated with a partition in the advertising keyword database in which to process the query, and to return search results to the query client. The search results may include advertiser listings having keywords which substantially match the search term entered by the query client computer, and which are ordered in accordance with a financial statistic associated with the keywords in the advertiser keyword database.
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25 Claims
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1. A computer system for a pay for performance advertising system, the computer system comprising:
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an advertiser account database maintained in computer readable media the advertiser account database comprising a plurality of advertising accounts having funds associated therewith;
an advertiser keyword database maintained in computer readable media, the advertiser keyword database divided into a plurality of partitions, each partition capable of having an advertiser listing associated with an advertising content page of an advertising client computer and including a keyword having a bid denomination;
a query processing subsection operatively coupled to the advertiser keywords database and programmed to;
submit a search query responsive to a search term generated on a query client to the advertiser keyword database to determine a set of advertiser listings associated with a partition in the advertising keyword database; and
return search results to the query client computer, the search results including advertiser listings having keywords which substantially match the search term generated on the query client and which are ordered in accordance with a financial statistic associated with the keywords in the advertiser keyword database and which provides a link to the associated advertising content page. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for providing a pay for performance advertising system on a data network in a market comprising a plurality of transactional channels, the method comprising:
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maintaining on a computer system having an account database and an advertiser keyword database comprising data records including keywords and associated bid denominations associated with an advertising client, said advertising keyword database partitioned according to a plurality of transactional channels;
receiving a search query from a query client;
submitting the search query to the advertiser keyword database to determine a set of advertiser listings associated with a partition in the advertising keyword database corresponding a transactional channel; and
providing search results to the query client, the search results including advertiser listings having keywords substantially matching the search term entered by the query client computer and which are ordered in accordance with a financial statistic associated with the keywords in the advertiser keyword database. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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