ADVERTISING SERVICE BASED ON CONTENT AND USER LOG MINING
First Claim
1. A method for identifying webpages associated with demographic attributes of registered users for the placement of advertisements on the webpages by an advertiser, the method comprising:
- receiving, from an advertiser, an indication of a demographic attribute useable to identify one or more webpages that have been accessed by a subset of registered users, the registered users in the subset being associated with the demographic attribute;
identifying, via a computing device having a processor, the subset of registered users from a plurality of registered users based on the demographic attribute;
identifying the one or more webpages that have been accessed by the subset of registered users; and
providing an indication of the one or more webpages to the advertiser for placement of an advertisement.
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for providing documents related to a search request. The search request may include a search query of one or more keywords, or the search request may be a demographic search query including one or more demographic attributes. An index containing data crawled from publisher'"'"'s websites, demographic information of registered users, along with the search history of the registered users can be created. Once a search request is received, the search request can be compared to the information stored in the index, and one or more documents related to the request can be provided.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for identifying webpages associated with demographic attributes of registered users for the placement of advertisements on the webpages by an advertiser, the method comprising:
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receiving, from an advertiser, an indication of a demographic attribute useable to identify one or more webpages that have been accessed by a subset of registered users, the registered users in the subset being associated with the demographic attribute; identifying, via a computing device having a processor, the subset of registered users from a plurality of registered users based on the demographic attribute; identifying the one or more webpages that have been accessed by the subset of registered users; and providing an indication of the one or more webpages to the advertiser for placement of an advertisement. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for providing demographic information associated with webpages to an advertiser, the method comprising:
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receiving, from an advertiser, a keyword useable to identify demographic attributes associated with a plurality of webpages based on registered users that have accessed the plurality of webpages; executing, via a computing device having a processor, a search query based on the keyword to identify the plurality of webpages; identifying the plurality of registered users that have accessed one or more of the plurality of webpages; obtaining the demographic attributes of the plurality of registered users from an index that stores the demographic attributes of the plurality of registered users in association with indications of the webpages that have been accessed by the plurality of registered users; and providing an indication of the demographic attributes to the advertiser. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for identifying webpages that have been accessed by members of a target market of an advertiser for the placement of advertisements on the webpages, the method comprising:
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receiving, from an advertiser, a demographic attribute and a keyword that are useable to identify one or more webpages that have been accessed by at least a subset of a plurality of registered users; determining, via a computing device having a processor, a first subset of the plurality of registered users that have executed a search query that includes the keyword as a search term, the search term being stored in an index in association with demographic attributes of the plurality of registered users and in further association with webpages accessed by the plurality of registered users; identifying, from the index, a first set of webpages that have been accessed by the first subset of registered users; determining a second subset of the plurality of registered users that are associated with the demographic attribute, the first and second subsets of registered users being the same or different; identifying a second set of webpages that have been accessed by the second subset of registered users; determining a third set of webpages comprising webpages that are in both the first and second sets of webpages; and providing the third set of webpages to the advertiser for the placement of an advertisement. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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