Method for offering a search-word advertisement and generating a search result list in response to the search-demand of a searcher and a system thereof
First Claim
1. A method for generating a search result list in response to a searcher'"'"'s search request and providing a search word advertisement, the method comprising the steps of:
- generating information on the maximum number of expected clicks for a predetermined advertising period, in association with a predetermined search word;
generating information on a reserve fund using said information on the maximum number of expected clicks and a unit click cost, associated with said search word, thereby providing said information on the reserve fund to an advertiser;
receiving confirmative information on receipt of payment for advertisement based upon said information on the reserve fund from said advertiser;
maintaining a search information database including a search listing associated with said advertiser, in response to receipt of said confirmative information, said search listing being associated with said search word;
receiving a search request from a searcher, said search request including said search word;
identifying said search listing with said search word in response to said search request, thereby arranging said search listing;
measuring the number of actual clicks with respect to said search listing; and
adjusting said information on the reserve fund associated with said advertiser based upon said measured number of actual clicks.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to method and system for providing a search word advertisement which can compute a predetermined expected advertisement cost by predicting the maximum number of expected clicks at the future point with respect to particular search listing, and subtract a cost for execution of advertisement from the expected advertisement cost, wherein the cost for execution of advertisement is determined on the basis of the number of valid clicks that have actually occurred during a contracted advertising period. According to the present invention, in a model for providing an advertisement through a search word advertisement, there is an effect that it is possible to provide method and system for providing a search word advertisement which predict the maximum number of expected clicks by predetermined future point, and adopt a unit cost per click, thereby scientifically computing an expected advertisement cost and charging an advertiser a reasonable advertisement cost.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for generating a search result list in response to a searcher'"'"'s search request and providing a search word advertisement, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating information on the maximum number of expected clicks for a predetermined advertising period, in association with a predetermined search word;
generating information on a reserve fund using said information on the maximum number of expected clicks and a unit click cost, associated with said search word, thereby providing said information on the reserve fund to an advertiser;
receiving confirmative information on receipt of payment for advertisement based upon said information on the reserve fund from said advertiser;
maintaining a search information database including a search listing associated with said advertiser, in response to receipt of said confirmative information, said search listing being associated with said search word;
receiving a search request from a searcher, said search request including said search word;
identifying said search listing with said search word in response to said search request, thereby arranging said search listing;
measuring the number of actual clicks with respect to said search listing; and
adjusting said information on the reserve fund associated with said advertiser based upon said measured number of actual clicks. - 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 generating a search result list in response to a searcher'"'"'s search request and providing a search word advertisement, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating information on the maximum number of expected clicks for a predetermined advertising period, in association with a predetermined search word;
receiving information on a bid price with respect to a unit click cost associated with said search word, from at least one advertiser;
determining a unit click cost and an advertiser based on said received information on the bid price;
generating information on a reserve fund using said information on the maximum number of expected clicks and said determined unit click cost;
transmitting said information on the reserve fund to said determined advertiser;
maintaining a search listing associated with said advertiser in association with said search word in a database;
receiving a search request from a searcher, said search request including said search word;
identifying said search listing with said search word in response to said search request, thereby arranging said search listing;
measuring and maintaining information on the number of clicks with respect to said arranged search listing during said advertising period; and
generating refund information or information on a free advertising period, based on said information on the number of clicks and said information on the maximum number of expected clicks.
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19. A computer readable record medium recording a program for implementing a method for generating a search result list in response to a searcher'"'"'s search request and providing a search word advertisement, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating information on the maximum number of expected clicks with respect to a predetermined advertising period, in association with a predetermined search word;
generating information on a reserve fund by considering said information on the maximum number of expected clicks and a unit click cost associated with the keyword, thereby transmitting said information on a reserve fund to an advertiser;
receiving confirmative information on receipt of money with respect to said information on a reserve fund from an account associated with said advertiser;
as the step of maintaining a search information database including search listing associated with said advertiser, in response to receipt of said confirmative information on receipt of money, associating at least one said search listing with the search word;
receiving a search request from a searcher;
in response to said search request, identifying search listing associated with said search word, thereby arranging said identified search listing;
measuring the number of clicks with respect to said arranged search listing; and
in correspondence with said measured number of clicks, subtracting said information on a reserve fund.
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20. A system for providing a search word advertisement, the system comprising:
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a search information database for storing at least one search listing associated with an advertiser, said search information database associating said search listing with at lease one search word;
a search engine for abstracting search listings from a database, the search engine providing a searcher with at least one abstracted search listing upon search request of said searcher by predetermined arrangement method;
a click predicting means for computing information on the maximum number of expected clicks during a predetermined advertising period with respect to said abstracted search listing;
a cost computing means for generating information on a reserve fund by considering said computed information on the maximum number of expected clicks and a unit click cost associated with said search word;
a settlement control means for transmitting said generated information on a reserve fund to an advertiser associated with said search listing and receiving confirmative information on receipt of money with respect to said information on a reserve fund from an account associated with said advertiser; and
an advertisement cost subtracting means for measuring said searcher'"'"'s number of valid clicks that generate during said advertising period, and subtracting said information on a reserve fund in correspondence with said number of valid clicks;
wherein said click predicting means computes the number of expected clicks on the basis of statistical information with respect to the number of clicks during the predetermined previous period and adds up said computed number of expected clicks with respect to said advertising period, thereby generating information on the maximum number of expected clicks.
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