System and method for implementing advertising in an online social network
First Claim
1. A computer system for integrating analytics data from user profiles in a social network with targeted advertisements, comprising a central processing unit, a set of support circuits, and a server, wherein the server stores and maintains a memory comprising at least one operating system, a first software application for obtaining the analytics data of user profiles and utilizing the analytics data to select desired user profiles, and a second software application for determining advertisements to be delivered to the desired user profiles.
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Abstract
A system and method for integrating analytics data of user profiles within a social network with targeted ad campaigns. The system includes an advertisement targeting system that obtains analytics data of user profiles and utilizes the data to filter through the user profiles to select desired user profiles for delivery of advertisements targeted to the interests and personality of the desired user profiles. Utilization of the analytics data includes generating a social rank of each user profile relevant to other user profiles in the social network. An advertising marketplace is implemented for use by ad marketers to purchase advertisement rights on a user profile webpage, to filter through user profiles in a social network for select user profiles with desired analytics data, and to generate advertisement campaigns targeted to the selected user profiles within a social network.
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- 1. A computer system for integrating analytics data from user profiles in a social network with targeted advertisements, comprising a central processing unit, a set of support circuits, and a server, wherein the server stores and maintains a memory comprising at least one operating system, a first software application for obtaining the analytics data of user profiles and utilizing the analytics data to select desired user profiles, and a second software application for determining advertisements to be delivered to the desired user profiles.
- 7. A method for integrating analytic data of a plurality of user profiles in a social network with targeted advertisements, comprising the steps of obtaining a first set of analytic data of the plurality of user profiles, utilizing the first set to create filters to apply to the plurality of user profiles, applying the filters to the plurality of user profiles, producing a group of filtered user profiles, and selecting a first advertisement to be delivered to each of the filtered user profiles, wherein the first advertisement is targeted to interests of each filtered user profile based on the first set of analytic data.
- 17. A system for allowing an advertising marketer to purchase advertising rights to a user profile webpage in a social network system comprising a central processing unit, a set of support circuits, and a first server, wherein the server stores and maintains a memory comprising at least one operating system, and a first software application for purchasing advertising rights to a user profile, and a second server, wherein the server stores and maintains a memory comprising at least one operating system, a second software application for obtaining the analytics data of user profiles and utilizing the analytics data to select desired user profiles, and a third software application for determining advertisements to be delivered to the desired user profiles.
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