DYNAMIC ADVERTISING

• US 20140122232A1
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sheldon, Graham Andrew Michael, Press, James Michael, Mehta, Arun Kumar, Voinea, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/661,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20140122232A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.54
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention dynamically generate customized online advertisements. A dynamic advertisement may take the form of a paid search result. The advertisement is dynamic in the sense that all of or portions of the advertisement are generated using content from a web page operated by an entity associated with the advertisement. The web page used to generate the dynamic ad may be the entity'"'"'s most responsive web page within normal search results. Embodiments of the invention use content from the most responsive web page to generate one or more dynamic ad features. Possible dynamic ad features include the title of the advertisement, a landing page of the advertisement, a caption on the advertisement, and a dynamic annotation of the advertisement.

Claims

1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computing device perform a method of generating a dynamic advertisement, the method comprising:

receiving a query;

selecting an advertisement that is responsive to the query, the advertisement associated with an entity that has a website;

determining that a page from within the website has more relevance to the query than other pages within the website by evaluating search results that are responsive to the query; and

generating a dynamic advertisement that includes an advertisement feature that is dynamically derived from content in the page.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the dynamic advertisement has an appearance similar to a search result.

3. The media of claim 2, wherein the advertisement feature in the dynamic advertisement is a uniform resource locator (“

URL”

) for the page.

4. The media of claim 2, wherein the advertisement feature in the dynamic advertisement is a dynamic annotation derived from content associated with the page, the dynamic annotation comprising details describing a service or product offered for sale on the page.

5. The media of claim 2, wherein the advertisement feature in the dynamic advertisement is a dynamic caption derived from content associated with the page.

6. The media of claim 2, wherein the advertisement feature in the dynamic advertisement is a dynamic title based on a title associated with the page.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein the a responsiveness indication generated by the search engine is used to determine that the page has more relevance to the query than other pages associated with the query.

8. A method of generating a dynamic advertisement, the method comprising:

receiving a query;

selecting an advertisement that is responsive to the query, the advertisement associated with an entity;

determining that criteria used to trigger generation of the dynamic advertisement are satisfied;

determining that a page associated with the entity has more relevance to the query than other pages associated with the entity by evaluating search results that are responsive to the query; and

generating the dynamic advertisement that includes an advertisement feature that is dynamically derived from content in the page.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the criteria comprises an expectation of improved that is satisfied when historical advertising performance information indicates the dynamic advertisement has above a threshold probability of producing the improved advertising performance.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the criteria comprises an intent classification given the search query.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the intent classification to navigate to a particular web page does not satisfy the criteria.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the criteria comprises instructions provided by the entity explaining when the dynamic advertisement is to be generated.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises outputting for display an advertising campaign manager interface having interface controls for the entity to input the instructions.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the content in the page is metadata associated with page.

15. A method of generating a dynamic advertisement, the method comprising:

receiving a query;

selecting an advertisement that is responsive to the query, the advertisement associated with an entity;

determining that a webpage associated with the entity has more relevance to the query than other web pages associated with the entity by evaluating search results that are responsive the query; and

generating a dynamic advertisement by modifying an advertisement feature in the entity'"'"'s default advertisement with an updated advertising feature that is dynamically derived from content in the web page.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the advertisement feature is one or more of a title, a caption, a landing page, and a dynamic annotation.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the dynamic advertisement comprises one or more advertising features from the default advertisement and the updated advertising feature.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the dynamic advertisement comprises a display characteristic that indicates that the updated advertising feature is derived from the web page.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the dynamic advertisement comprises deep content from the web page describing a specific product or service provided through the web page.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises determining that a particular advertising feature in the default advertisement is to be updated by evaluating factors associated with the query and the entity and concluding that the factors satisfy criteria used to trigger generation of the dynamic advertisement with respect of the particular advertising feature.