System and method for optimizing the delivery of advertisements
First Claim
1. A method for selecting advertisements for delivery, the method comprising:
- retrieving click through rates associated with one or more advertisements within a group of advertisements;
normalizing the click through rates associated with the one or more advertisements within the group of advertisements;
assigning weights to the one or more advertisements within the group of advertisements based upon the normalized click through rates; and
distributing advertisements according to the one or more advertisements'"'"' associated weights in response to one or more requests for advertisements.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to systems and methods for the optimized delivery of one or more advertisements from a group of advertisements. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a request for one or more advertisements and retrieving advertisements responsive to the request received. Click through data associated with the one or more advertisements is retrieved and is normalized using a normalization algorithm. The normalized click through data is used to assign weights to the one or more advertisements. Tracking codes are generated for the one or more advertisements to track user interactions with a given advertisement. Advertisements are distributed according to the one or more advertisements'"'"' associated weights with associated tracking codes in one or more formats to one or more locations through which advertising may be conducted.
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34 Claims
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1. A method for selecting advertisements for delivery, the method comprising:
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retrieving click through rates associated with one or more advertisements within a group of advertisements;
normalizing the click through rates associated with the one or more advertisements within the group of advertisements;
assigning weights to the one or more advertisements within the group of advertisements based upon the normalized click through rates; and
distributing advertisements according to the one or more advertisements'"'"' associated weights in response to one or more requests for advertisements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for delivering advertisements, the system comprising:
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a content data store operative to store one or more advertisements as a group of advertisements;
an analytics data store operative to store click through rates associated with the one or more advertisements stored in the content data store;
a weight optimizer operative to normalize click through rates associated with the one or more advertisements within the group of advertisements and assign weights to the one or more advertisements based upon the normalized click through rates; and
a search-serving component operative to;
receive one or more requests for advertisements, generate tracking codes for tracking user interactions with one or more advertisements, and distribute the one or more advertisements and associated tracking codes according to the one or more advertisements'"'"' associated weights in response to the one or more requests. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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