Co-Mingling System for Delivery of Advertising and Corresponding Methods
First Claim
1. A method for delivering advertising selected for a target audience to the target audience, comprising:
- determining whether a predetermined criterion associated with an advertisement selected for delivery to user devices of members of an audience, delivered to the user devices across a network during a first content offering, is achieved with the audience during the first content offering; and
where the predetermined criterion was not met;
performing a co-mingling determination of one or more additional content offerings that occurred within a predetermined usage window meeting a co-mingling criterion meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold where a plurality of members of a usage group viewed the one or more additional content offerings;
determining when a future content offering corresponding to the one or more additional content offerings will occur;
selecting another advertisement; and
scheduling the another advertisement for delivery during the future content offering.
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Abstract
A system (100,300) and method (500,600) for delivering advertising selected for a target audience to the target audience are disclosed. The system (100,300) includes an advertising selector (206,306) configured to select one or more advertisements (114,314), which may be interactive and include click-through interaction features (315). The advertisements (114,314) are delivered to user devices (106,107,108,306,307,308) of members of an audience. A detector (208,408) is configured to determine a usage rate, and to detect whether predetermined thresholds for usage were met. Where they were not, a database-mining engine (209,409) determines one or more additional content offerings where at least a portion of the usage set of members was co-mingled, and to then determine one or more future content offerings corresponding thereto. An advertising placement opportunity generator (214,414) then schedules advertisements to be delivered during the future content offerings.
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37 Claims
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1. A method for delivering advertising selected for a target audience to the target audience, comprising:
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determining whether a predetermined criterion associated with an advertisement selected for delivery to user devices of members of an audience, delivered to the user devices across a network during a first content offering, is achieved with the audience during the first content offering; and where the predetermined criterion was not met; performing a co-mingling determination of one or more additional content offerings that occurred within a predetermined usage window meeting a co-mingling criterion meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold where a plurality of members of a usage group viewed the one or more additional content offerings; determining when a future content offering corresponding to the one or more additional content offerings will occur; selecting another advertisement; and scheduling the another advertisement for delivery during the future content offering. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for delivering advertising selected for a target audience to the target audience, comprising:
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an advertising selector configured to select one or more advertisements for delivery to user devices of members of an audience; an advertising delivery manager configured to deliver the one or more advertisements to the user devices during content offerings; a detector configured to determine whether one or more criteria are met for a first advertisement by the audience during a first content offering; a database mining engine, operable with an audience demographic database, and configured to, when the one or more criteria are not met not met, to determine one or more additional content offerings where at least a portion of a usage group of members was co-mingled, and to then determine one or more future content offerings corresponding to the one or more additional content offerings; and an advertising placement opportunity generator configured to schedule another advertisement selected by the advertising selector for delivery by the advertising delivery manager during at least one of the one or more additional content offerings. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method for delivering advertising selected for a target audience to the target audience, comprising:
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selecting an advertisement for delivery to user devices of members of an audience; delivering the advertisement to the user devices across a network during a first content offering; determining a usage rate for the audience during the first content offering; and where the usage rate was not met; performing a co-mingling determination of one or more additional content offerings that occurred within a predetermined usage window meeting a co-mingling criterion meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold where a plurality of members of a usage group viewed the one or more additional content offerings; determining when a future content offering corresponding to the one or more additional content offerings will occur; selecting another advertisement; and scheduling the another advertisement for delivery during the future content offering. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method for delivering advertising selected for a target audience to the target audience, comprising:
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selecting an interactive advertisement comprising a click-through interaction feature for delivery to user devices of members of an audience; delivering the interactive advertisement to the user devices across a network during a first content offering; determining a minimum threshold of click-through interactions for the audience during the first content offering; detecting with a click-through detector whether the minimum threshold of click-through interactions met by determining how many of a usage group of members of the audience use the click-through interaction feature during the first content offering; and where the minimum threshold of click-through interactions was not achieved; performing a co-mingling determination of one or more additional content offerings that occurred within a predetermined usage window meeting a co-mingling criterion meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold where a plurality of members of the usage group viewed the one or more additional content offerings; determining when a future content offering corresponding to the one or more additional content offerings will occur; selecting another interactive advertisement; and scheduling the another interactive advertisement for delivery during the future content offering.
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37. A method for delivering advertising selected for a target audience to the target audience, comprising:
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selecting an advertisement for delivery to user devices of members of an audience; delivering the advertisement to the user devices across a network during a first content offering; determining a minimum threshold of user devices for the audience during the first content offering; detecting with a detector whether a number of the user devices presenting the advertisement to a user exceeds the minimum threshold of user devices; and where the minimum threshold of user devices is not exceeded by the number of the user devices presenting the advertisement; performing a co-mingling determination of one or more additional content offerings that occurred within a predetermined usage window meeting a co-mingling criterion meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold where a plurality of members of a usage group viewed the one or more additional content offerings; determining when a future content offering corresponding to the one or more additional content offerings will occur; selecting another advertisement; and scheduling the another interactive advertisement for delivery during the future content offering.
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